Quote from: deisik on September 19, 2015, 08:08:51 AM

Quote from: OROBTC on September 19, 2015, 01:20:07 AM

I'll also mention another thing. Maybe it's psychological?

Once most people who have lots of experience with both PMs, you tend to see that most gradually come to like gold better. They hold onto the gold coin, preferring to spend the silver ones.

If I ever have to spend any of my PMs, I will spend my silver first, no matter what the Au:Ag ratio is.

There seems to be some fairly universal attraction of humankind to gold. Maybe that's from the very ancient past...

Gold is very special in its properties including outward appearance, that is, color and shine. Silver, on the other hand, is nothing out of the ordinary, you could easily confuse it with tin, for example...

To me, tin has more appeal

deisik

I would be interested to hear your views on platinum, a lovely PM.

Pt is much scarcer than gold, and has a fair amount of industrial use. Looking at its industrial use, I saw a comment: "Platinum is for optimists." Pt has almost the amount of shine (almost as reflective) as silver. Pt does not corrode either, no need to polish it...

Platinum is also "value-dense" (a little goes a long way), but Pt prices have fallen hard lately. Nor is as liquid as Au and Ag.