the look of silver

[JimmyStack]

I don't know what it is really but i love the look of silver much more than gold... something hypnotic about it... better than platinum or palladium too... silver, the gentleman's metal (and Ladies too)... just thought i would put that out... enjoying a wee bit of gin tonight and feel chatty lol

[knighthawk]

I feel the same. Silver just has something about it that makes it look good and feel good in the hand.

 

[FoolzGold]

At the risk of getting thrown off the silver forum as a heretic I have to say I personally don't find silver that visually appealing. Combined with the fact that it's valued so low by weight and suffers from huge margins I have trouble getting too excited by silver coins. ?

A gold coin on the other hand looks pretty darn impressive. Platinum too has an edge over silver in terms of appearance for me.

[augur]

19 minutes ago, FoolzGold said:

Platinum too has an edge over silver in terms of appearance for me.

In which way? I do like the way platinum flows when struck on a larger magnification level but overall it seems greyer and darker. 

Also on coins the lustre of circulation issue gold coins is more appealing than silver. 

But as cast bars, silver seems to have an edge. Although i still have to see a BYB gold ripple bar to compare. 

[Bullionaire]

I do like the look of sliver,  but you can't beat pure gold for aesthetic appearance. I will own a 1oz gold coin someday!

[mr-dead]

I know which of my bars I prefer and feels better in the hand, and its not the one on the right

At spot you could have 15 bars + change of the one on the right for the price of the gold bar.  Highlights how value dense gold is.

[knighthawk]

Silver is the metal of men, gold is the metal of kings.

Platinum / Palladium are the metals of cars. ?

[PansPurse]

Silver has the highest reflectivity of all the metals, it is objectively and measurably the shiniest.

Gold is one of the very very few metals to have an emission in the visible spectrum (hence it's colour)

[RacerCool]

3 hours ago, Bullionaire said:

I do like the look of sliver,  but you can't beat pure gold for aesthetic appearance. I will own a 1oz gold coin someday!

Pure copper has a great look to it, which rivals gold.

[Bullionaire]

7 minutes ago, RacerCool said:

Pure copper has a great look to it, which rivals gold.

I do like the look of copper, especially with a matt finish. I just find gold captivating to look at. Maybe it's partly  knowing how expensive it is that does it

[StackerNoob]

4 hours ago, FoolzGold said:

At the risk of getting thrown off the silver forum as a heretic I have to say I personally don't find silver that visually appealing. Combined with the fact that it's valued so low by weight and suffers from huge margins I have trouble getting too excited by silver coins. ?

A gold coin on the other hand looks pretty darn impressive. Platinum too has an edge over silver in terms of appearance for me.

I could not disagree more re the platinum comment. For me platinum is a dirty looking slightly blue version of silver. It is in no way attractive to me.

Im mostly a silver stacker but have some gold and its a toss up for me between the two in terms of looks. For example, I think the QBs in silver look boss, gold ones are just meh to me. But philharmonics look only ok in silver but look amazing in gold.

[MickD]

Just sorting through some coins, these are some of the reasons I like silver.  Maria Theresa is a mass produced bullion con but still lovely, Morgan's nice and I may start collecting them, the hunting Thaler is a repro unfortunately, the real ones are a bit out of my price range but I'm not complaining at £7.  

 

 

[PansPurse]

I mean, if you like a metal for its scarcity I suggest stacking Francium... although it's also highly radioactive, which might be an issue...

[kimchi]

I love the look of silver in the morning

[FoolzGold]

36 minutes ago, StackerNoob said:

I could not disagree more re the platinum comment. For me platinum is a dirty looking slightly blue version of silver. It is in no way attractive to me.

Im mostly a silver stacker but have some gold and its a toss up for me between the two in terms of looks. For example, I think the QBs in silver look boss, gold ones are just meh to me. But philharmonics look only ok in silver but look amazing in gold.

Each to their own. BTW I'll be happy to send you a 2oz silver QB for any 1oz platinum QB you might have.

Personally I'm still waiting for a vibranium or unobtainium 1oz coin. ?

 

[RacerCool]

3 hours ago, FoolzGold said:

Each to their own. BTW I'll be happy to send you a 2oz silver QB for any 1oz platinum QB you might have.

Personally I'm still waiting for a vibranium or unobtainium 1oz coin. ?

 

I have a really large vibranium round on order, which comes with a neat-looking capsule of this "serum" stuff that they said was part of the package. It was a bit more than I wanted to spend this pay period but Apmex was having one of their vault deals.

[SILVERFINGER]

Ok then what metal/colour would you have if it was as valuable as gold and didnt tarnish, also it wouldnt be poisonous or make you glow like the ready brek kid ?

 

I think copper and tungsten carbide for me, some nice poured/cast kilo bars for me.

[Goldhooked]

On 22/07/2018 at 15:39, RacerCool said:

Pure copper has a great look to it, which rivals gold.

I agree.  The colour of copper is unrivalled in my view.  Shame it’s value doesn’t match its look