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Silver Has Enduring Value
Mankind's timeless fascination with silver stretches back 6,000 years. As early as 700 B.C., the Mesopotamian merchants used silver as a form of exchange. Later, many other civilizations also came to recognize the inherent value of silver as a trading metal.
The ancient Greeks minted the drachma, which contained 1/8th ounce of silver; and in Rome, the basic coin was the denarius, weighing 1/7th ounce. And let’s not forget the English shilling "sterling," originally denoting a specific weight of silver, which has come to mean excellence.
Today, millions of people throughout the world recognize silver’s intrinsic value and have made it popular as an affordable investment.
This page explains how to use silver to diversify your investments and hedge against inflation. It will also introduce you to some of the most widely accepted silver investment products.
Silver is a Precious Metal
Although silver is relatively scarce, it is the most plentiful and least expensive of the precious metals.
Precious metals are valued for their beauty and relative scarcity in the Earth’s crust, and their superior properties. They are very malleable, highly resistant to corrosion, superior reflectors of light and are unsurpassed as conductors of heat and electricity.
Besides signifying status and wealth, silver has been one of the most romantic and sought after of all the precious metals. Mystified by its beauty from the beginning of time, people have been drawn to remote areas of the world in search of this white, reflective metal.
Silver has often been surrounded by mystery. The Incas of Peru called it "the tears of the moon" because they were awed by silver’s strange gleam, and the Chinese believed that a silver locket hung around a child’s neck would ward off evil spirits.
Silver’s Role In Your Financial Planning
For the average investor, silver can be an effective means of diversifying investment assets and preserving wealth against the ravages of inflation.
Although the value of silver may vary, it has an intrinsic value that is immutable and permanent. Accordingly, many experts suggest that investors should include it among their investment assets.
Why? Because silver can be an important store of value. For example, between 1971 and 1981, the U.S. dollar lost more than half of its value, while silver prices rose nearly five times.
But what about the future? Nobody knows; but many financial planners still suggest including silver among the investments of their clients.
A Final Word To The Wise
For more information about how to invest in silver, you should consult with well known, reputable brokers, bankers, financial advisors or dealers.
Prior to making any investment, you should make sure the seller is capable of delivering exactly what it is selling, and is providing you with the conditions under which it stands ready to buy back your silver.
The Silver Institute does not provide advice as to the buying and selling of silver or the advisability of trading in commodities, nor the tax consequences of any investment or trade in silver.
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Silver Facts
Demand for silver is built on three main pillars: industrial uses, photography and jewelry & silverware. Together, these three categories represent more than 95 percent of annual silver consumption.
Sparkling tableware, shining jewelry, and living spaces brightened by silvered mirrors are the obvious contributions of silver to our daily lives. It is, however, the silver behind the scenes that makes our modern world function more efficiently. Inside switches, silver contacts efficiently and safely turn on and off the powerful electric current that flows into our homes, our lamps and our appliances. It is silver under the keys of computer keyboards, behind automobile dashboards, and behind the control panels of washing machines or microwave ovens that switch on or off at the touch of the finger. And inside the 220-volt line circuit breaker boxes in our homes or inside the 75,000-volt circuit breakers in power stations, silver performs safely and steadily to switch on or off our most dependable servant, electric power, throughout our lives.
Silver has been a multifaceted asset throughout history. It was found as a free metal and easily worked into useful shapes and was widely used by early man. The beauty, weight and lack of corrosion made silver a store of value, and hence one of the earliest of metals to be used as a medium of exchange.
The early discovery that water, wine, milk and vinegar stayed pure longer in silver vessels, led to its desirability as a container for long voyages. Herodotus wrote that Cyrus the Great, King of Persia, a man of vision who established a board of health and a medical dispensary for his citizens, had water drawn from a special stream, "boiled, and very many four wheeled wagons drawn by mules carry it in silver vessels, following the king wheresoever he goes at any time."
In more contemporary times, when the first telegrapher tapped out his code in 1832, silver was the electrical contact that made the current flow. Earlier that century, when Joseph Nicephore Niepce created the first photographic image obtained through a camera-like device in 1813, it was silver nitrate that made it possible. Finally, when the German obstetrician, Dr. Carl Crede made his medical breakthrough in 1884 to halt the diseases that caused blindness in generations of children at birth, it was silver that killed the viruses.
Today, modern technology has revealed an even more remarkable range of electrical, mechanical, optical, and medicinal properties that have placed silver as the key metal in many applications.
Silver in the Home
Every time you turn on a microwave oven, dishwasher, clothes washer, or television set, the action activates a switch with silver contacts that completes the required electrical circuit.
Ordinary household switches, which normally carry high electric current for electrical appliances from irons to refrigerators, use silver. Silver is the metal of choice for switch contacts because it does not corrode, which would result in overheating, posting a fire hazard.
Today's electrical appliances are controlled by membrane switch panels, where the contacts are silver. Membrane switch panels are found in microwave ovens, automobiles and under the keys of personal computers. Due to their reliability and wide use, the silver-contact membrane switch market in the U.S. has grown to over $40 million annually. In an increasing trend, millions of on-the-counter and under-the-counter water purifiers are sold each year in the United States to rid drinking water of bacteria, chlorine, trihalomethanes, lead, particulates, and odor. Here silver is used to prevent the buildup of bacteria and algae in the filters. Research has shown that the catalytic action of silver, in concert with oxygen, provides a powerful sanitizer, that virtually eliminates the need for the use of corrosive chlorine.
126 million troy ounces of silver were used worldwide in 2007 for photography. Although a wide variety of technology is available, silver-based photography is expected to dominate the market for the foreseeable future due to its superior definition and low cost. Silver halide is the material that records what is to be seen in the photograph. As little as 4 photons of light activate silver halides which amplify that incident light by a factor of one billion times. In today's photography, silver halides are coupled with dyes that bring the color of the world around us into a permanent record.
Everyone is accustomed to silvered mirrors. What is new is invisible silver, a transparent coating of silver on double pane thermal windows. This coating not only rejects the hot summer sun, but also reflects internal house heat inward. A new double layer of silver on glass marketed as "low E squared" is sweeping the window market as it reflects away almost 95% of the hot rays of the sun, creating a new level of household energy savings.
Sterling silver has always been traditional tableware because of its sparkling reflectivity, its artistic heritage, and its bactericidal properties. Similarly, silver jewelry owes its long popularity to its reflective beauty and it workability into creative shapes. Worldwide use of silver for these markets amounts to over 163 million troy ounces in 2007.
Watches, clocks, and calculators today are battery driven; for these, the silver battery is the power source of choice. The silver battery provides the higher voltages and long life required for quartz watches. In fact, over 1.5 billion silver oxide-zinc batteries are supplied to world markets yearly, including miniature-sized batteries for watches, cameras and small electronic devices, and larger batteries for tools and commercial portable TV cameras.
Samsung has integrated its Nano Silver Health System to refrigerators where it is used in trays, filters and tubing to kill bacteria and the odors they produce, and in air conditioners, where it is used in surfaces that touch water from condensation. The Silver Nano Health System relies on the dispersal of a colloidal silver solution of sub-microscopic (1~100nano meter) size that can easily penetrate cell walls. When these silver nano particles come into contact with bacteria and viruses they disrupt their structure and inhibit cell growth.
As part of its own growing interest in silver in appliances, Samsung's competitor LG Electronics has introduced to the Middle East market its 'TV refrigerator,' which allows people to enjoy music, movies, satellite broadcasting and cable TV in the kitchen, through a small TV placed on the appliance door, according to K.H. Kim, President of LG Electronics Middle East and Africa. "Users also have the option to order food and groceries from home shopping channels," he added. Equipped with a multi-aperture flow cooling system, which stops heat from the TV from reaching the refrigerator, the unit uses 'Bio Silver' and 'Bio Shield,' LG's brand of nano silver technology to provide anti-bacterial protection.
Silver in Technology
NASA's Magellan spacecraft, on its four year scientific mission, gave scientists their clearest look ever at the surface of Venus. 24,171 silver-coated quartz tiles protected the spacecraft from overheating under twice the solar radiation experienced orbiting the earth, plus the extra heat reflected by the Venusian clouds. The protection afforded by these tiles allowed the sophisticated electronics to work flawlessly, mapping the surface of the planet and its gravity fields with unprecedented detail.
Silver imparts special properties to aluminum alloys. The addition of silver to aluminum has provided the strongest cast aluminum alloy known, now used to advantage in aircraft such as the Air Force C17 transport and in the Army's Apache helicopter. A new silver-lithium-aluminum alloy is the strongest wrought aluminum alloy known. It has been used on several of the NASA space shuttle missions.
Silver's use as a gasket material in the chemical process is due to its chemical inactivity even under powerfully oxidizing conditions of the Space Shuttle engine.
Silver has also long been used to braze materials together. Silver's advantageous alloying and wetting properties are especially useful to hermetically seal together the components of electron power tubes such as the radar tubes now being installed at airports to warn pilots of deadly wind shear.
Silver has a unique affinity for oxygen. This property is critical to high temperature superconductors, which will revolutionize the transmission and storage of electrical power and the efficiency of motors and most other electrical equipment. In this application, silver not only prevents the loss of oxygen, but also acts as a source of nascent oxygen, essential to the operation of the superconductor. When silver is sintered with superconducting materials, the silver matrix itself displays superconducting properties.
Silver is also a powerful oxidative catalyst for the chemical process industry. The production of polyester fabrics, hydraulic fluids, engine antifreezes, and most flexible plastics, such as Mylar, is made more efficient by the use of silver.
Silver In the Hospital
In a world concerned with virus and disease, silver is increasingly tapped for its bactericidal properties and used to treat a range of conditions including severe burns.
Since 1884 when the German obstetrician Carl Crede administered a 1% silver nitrate solution to the eyes of newborn infants, virtually eliminating the incidence of gonococcal opthalmia (a disease causing blindness in newborns), silver has been used as an important bactericide. Only in recent times have modern antibiotics replaced such treatment.
Recent research shows that silver also promotes the production of new cells, increasing the rate of healing in wounds and bone. The regeneration of whole areas of lost skin is being accomplished by the use of silver treatment.
Research indicates that silver-based purification systems are effective in disinfecting water. For the home, silver-based water purifiers are becoming increasingly common. Here silver is used to prevent the buildup of bacteria and algae in the filters. Research has also shown that the catalytic action of silver, in concert with oxygen, provides a powerful sanitizer, virtually eliminating the need for chlorine in swimming pools. Polyvalent silver oxide, a highly charged silver, is finding wide application in the treatment of bacterial and viral disease.
William Conrad Roentgen, who discovered of x-rays in 1895, also discovered that the invisible rays served to activate silver halide crystals, a process that revolutionized medical diagnosis.
One out of every seven pairs of prescription eyeglasses sold in the U.S. incorporates silver. Silver halide crystals melted into glass can change the light transmission from 96% to 22% in less than 60 seconds and block at least 97% of the sun's ultraviolet rays. The change is endlessly reversible.
As part of a growing trend in silver-based bandage usage, two wound dressing makers, Curad and Johnson & Johnson, have recently introduced products into this growing field. Beiersdorf USA, maker of Curad bandages, is marketing a line of wound-care products using silver as a natural antibacterial: Curad Silver. The new line uses silver in the wound pad to help protect minor cuts, scrapes, abrasions, lacerations and scalds. Curad Silver Natural Antibacterial Bandages are available as Assorted Bandages, Extra Large Bandages and Active Gel Bandages which promise multi-day holding ability.
For the health care professional market, Johnson & Johnson has introduced their SILVERCEL antimicrobial alginate dressing, providing the protection of silver and the absorption of alginate. Alginate dressings are highly absorbent, biodegradable dressings made from seaweed. They keep wounds moist, which not only promotes healing but limits damage during dressing changes. According to company officials, SILVERCEL can be especially helpful in the healing of chronic, hard-to-heal wounds that may be infected as a result of a high bacterial count. Because of a sustained release of silver ions, the dressing acts as an effective barrier and may help reduce infection.
Silver On The Highway
Every electrical action in a modern car is activated with silver coated contacts. Basic functions such as starting the engine, opening power windows, adjusting power seats and closing a power trunk all require the use of a relay - a low power switch which activates a much higher power switch. A prime example is the silver membrane switch that activates the relay that powers the headlights.
A universal safety feature of every automobile produced in America, and most throughout the world, is the silver-ceramic lines fired into the rear window. The heat generated by these conductive paths is sufficient to clear the rear window of frost and ice.
Silver in Industry
Electric power drives the world's industry; its distribution depends upon silver contacts in switches and circuit breakers for efficient control. Silver is used in switches from 3 volts at less than 1 ampere to massive switches and circuit breakers which make and break 500,000 volts at 15,000 amperes. In the latter contacts, the silver is combined with tungsten, molybdenum, or other refractory metals.
Silver contacts in membrane switch panels are now standard in control panels for machinery, chemical industry processes, railway traffic controls and elevator call buttons, to name a few.
Silver oxide / zinc batteries, which have twice the electrical capacity of lead-acid batteries of the same size, have long found extensive use by television crews carrying portable battery packs, in aircraft, and in submersibles where weight is critical. Silver has long been known for its unrivaled performance at high temperatures; it is the only battery, for instance, that can provide reliable power for instrumentation at the high temperatures found at the bottom of oil wells.
Radiography, the use of photographic film to record the internal condition of materials, including stainless steel castings, is the major non-destructive evaluation technique for the discovery of structural fatigue and flaws.
Silver as a Store of Value
Silver has been used as a medium of exchange since ancient times (see Genesis 23:16). It was not until the reign of Croesus (560-546 B.C.), king of Lydia (in Asia Minor), that silver was stamped as official coinage.
Throughout history, silver coins were, and still are in many places, essential for internal and international trade. The Spanish reales (also containing 0.8 oz.. silver), minted in Mexico and Peru, were used throughout the Americas for generations. And nearly 400 million of the 1780-dated Austrian Maria Theresa thalers (containing 0.8 oz. silver) have been struck over the past two hundred years to serve as trade coins in Europe and Asia.
In 1792, Alexander Hamilton, then the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, proposed the adoption of a gold and silver based monetary system. Silver remained in circulating U.S. coins until the supply of silver could not meet the demand for coins and the face value of the coin fell below it's bullion, or meltdown value. The U.S. government eliminated silver from quarters and dimes in 1965 and half dollars were reduced to 40%. In the U.S. today, silver is used only in bullion, commemorative and proof coins. Mexico is the only country currently using silver in it's circulating coinage.
During the past decade, the United States, Canada and Mexico began issuing pure silver coins with nominal face values sold at a small premium over their bullion value (not their face value). In 1982, Mexico began minting a 999-fine (99.9% pure)silver Libertad ranging in weight from 1/20 oz. of a ounce to 5 ounces. Over 20 million of the coins have been sold. The U.S. Mint issues a 999-fine Silver Eagle bullion coin (a one ounce bullion coin with a face value of $1). Over 165 million have been sold since 1986. The Royal Canadian Mint issues a 5 dollar 9999-fine silver bullion coin, the silver Maple Leaf. Over 13 million have been sold since 1986. Australia issues a 5-dollar, 1 ounce 999 fine silver bullion coin, the Kookaburra. Over 8 million have been sold since 1990.
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SILVER USES
Silver is leading a revolution in technology and medicine. The white metal's unique bacteria-fighting qualities are becoming more and more critical in healing conditions ranging from severe burns to Legionnaires Disease. In fact, the most powerful treatment for burns is silver sulfadiazine, which is used in every hospital in North America to promote healing and reduce infection. Everything from surgical threads to bandages and dressings to doctors' coats and catheters are utilizing silver. In hospitals and homes, silver in ductwork provides maximum sterile atmosphere.
Silver is the best electrical conductor of all metals. Because it does not corrode, its use in electrical and motor control switches is universal. A fully-equipped automobile may have over 40 silver-tipped switches to start the engine, activate power steering, brakes, windows, mirrors, locks and other electrical accessories
Silver is also one of the few elements that improve the efficiency of chemical reactions. It is the only catalyst that will oxidize ethylene gas into ethylene oxide, the building block for polyester textiles used for clothing and specialty fabrics, and melded items like computer keyboards, electrical control knobs, domestic appliance components and Mylar tape used for all audio, VCR and recording tapes. Nanotechnology applications using silver are growing -- in computers, communications, miniature motors and switches.
Silvered windshields in homes, cars and office buildings reflect away some 70% of the solar energy that would otherwise pass through, thus reducing the load on air conditioners. The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Star Program has spurred 50% increase in silver-coated glass in past six years, translating to 350 million square feet of glass, or five million ounces of silver per year.
Silver is the ideal industrial material. No other metal has silver's combined strength, malleability and ductility, or facilitates electrical and thermal conductivity as well, or can reflect light and endure such extreme temperature changes. Jet engines of today and tomorrow can depend on silver-coated bearings for their performance and safety. All major jet engine manufacturers utilize these high-performance silver bearings, which provide critical fail-safe lubrication required by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Printed circuit boards (PCBs) use silver for connecting paths of electronic circuitry. PCBs are essential to the electronics that control the operation of aircraft, automobile engines, electrical appliances, security systems, telecommunication networks, mobile telephones, television receivers. Most computer keyboards use silver membrane switches.
These low-current switches are also found in control panels of cable television, telephones, and devices using digital electronics. Superconductivity is the power transmission of the future and silver makes it faster and more effective. Silver-jacketed superconducting oxide wires can carry more than 140 times the electric load of copper wire with less than 1 percent of the weight. This wire utilizes about 1,000 ounces of silver per mile. Silver already improves performance at lighter weights and size in cables, motors, generators and transformers. Silver oxide-zinc batteries provide higher voltages and longer life for such consumer goods as quartz watches, cameras, and electronic tools.
The ease of electrodeposition of silver accounts for silver's widespread use in coating. The plating thickness of some items, such as fuse caps, is less than one micron although the silver then tarnishes more easily. Coatings of two to seven microns are normal for heavy duty electrical equipment. Silver plating is used in a wide variety of applications from Christmas Tree ornaments to cutlery and hollowware.
Silver facilitates the joining of materials (called brazing when done at temperatures above 600oCelsius and soldering when below) and produces naturally smooth, leak-tight and corrosion-resistant joints. Silver brazing alloys are used widely in applications ranging from air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment to power distribution equipment in the electrical engineering sector. It is also used in the automobile and aerospace industries.
Silver, being a rare and noble metal, was a more desirable medium of exchange than beads, feathers, shells, and the like. Its use as a medium of exchange is known throughout all recorded history. Coins, in the sense of having an authenticating stamp on them, began to appear in the eastern Mediterranean during 550 B.C. By 269 B.C. Rome adopted silver as part of its standard coinage. Silver became the trading medium for merchants throughout the civilized world. (Gold being reserved for governments and the wealthy.) Today silver coins continue to be the medium of exchange wherever paper is not acceptable, for example, in parts of Africa and the Middle East. One example of a trade coin is the Empress Maria Theresia Taler, first minted in Austria in 1741. It was standardized in 1780 as 28 grams and 833/1000 silver (the remainder copper). Some 370 million of these 1780 dated coins have been minted up to 1996 and a large proportion remain in circulation today.
Although a wide variety of other technology is available, silver-based photography will retain its pre-eminence due to its superior definition and low cost. From it's very outset, silver halide has been the material that records what is to be seen in the photograph. As little as 4 photons of light activate silver halides which amplify that incident light by a factor of one billion times. In today's photography, silver halides are coupled with dyes that bring the color of the world around us into permanent record. An estimated 196 million troy ounces of silver were used worldwide in 2003 for photographic purpose.
Silver possesses working qualities similar to gold but enjoys greater reflectivity and can achieve the most brilliant polish of any metal. To make it durable for jewelry, however, pure silver (999 fineness) is often alloyed with small quantities of copper. In many countries, Sterling Silver (92.5% silver, 7.5% copper) is the standard for silverware and has been since the 14th century.
Silver's unique optical reflectivity, and its property of being virtually 100% reflective after polishing, allows it to be used both in mirrors and in coatings for glass, cellophane or metals. Everyone is accustomed to silvered mirrors. What is new is invisible silver, a transparent coating of silver on double pane thermal windows. This coating not only rejects the hot summer sun, but also reflects inward internal house heat. A new double layer of silver on glass marketed as "low E squared" is sweeping the window market as it reflects away almost 95% of the hot rays of the sun, creating a new level of household energy savings. Over 250 million square feet of silver- coated glass is used for domestic windows in the U.S. yearly and much more for silver coated polyester sheet for retrofitting windows.
Silver paste is used in 90 percent of all crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, which are the most common solar cell, according to the Photovoltaic Technology Division of the U.S. Department of Energy. And all silicon cells used in space to power satellites use silver in the form of evaporated metal to make the electrical contact. The electricity generated by photovoltaic cells is highly reliable. As soon as sunlight strikes, power begins to flow. Sunlight striking silicon cells generates electrons, which the silver conductors collect to become a useful electric current. The conductive silver, which also enhances reflection of the sunlight, is applied in the form of a glass paste with a minimum of 90 percent silver along the top and across the bottom of the silicon crystal. When fired, the silver forms a complete circuit collecting solar energy and conducting it to the power supply line. A group of roofing-tile solar cells can generate sufficient power to provide a house and also fill batteries to supply power after dark. Silver plays yet another role in the collection of solar energy: efficient reflection of solar heat. Silver is the best reflector of thermal energy (after gold).
An increasing trend is the millions of on-the-counter and under-the-counter water purifiers that are sold each year in the United States to rid drinking water of bacteria, chlorine, trihalomethanes, lead, particulates, and odor. Here silver is used to prevent the buildup of bacteria and algae in the filters. Of the billions of dollars spent yearly in the U.S. for drinking water purification systems, over half make advantageous use of the bactericidal properties of silver. New research has shown that the catalytic action of silver, in concert with oxygen, provides a powerful sanitizer, virtually eliminating the need for the use of corrosive chlorine.
Masih belum terlambat untuk menyimpan perak sebagai aset pelaburan yang anti-inflasi dan tidak susut nilai di makan masa sementara harganya yang masih sangat rendah sekarang ini berbanding emas yang tidak mustahil harganya akan melambung tinggi di waktu semua orang beralih kepada perak kerana harga emas sudah terlalu mahal dan sukar untuk didapati.Walaupun tidak mungkin boleh menandingi kehebatan emas akan tetapi sekarang ini adalah peluang dan masa yang terbaik anda untuk memiliki dan menyimpan perak dikala harganya masih murah.
Di dalam Al-Quran dan hadis logam bernilai yang disebut adalah emas dan perak dan ianya selalu disebut secara berpasangan.
Pelaburan perak adalah satu altenatif kepada meraka yang sedar akan kepentingan menyimpan emas sebagai perlindungan kepada tunai(wang kertas fiat) yang meraka miliki daripada menjadi mangsa susut nilai tetapi kurang berkemampuan untuk membeli emas.
Merujuk kepada rekod harga perak untuk tahun 2009 ia telah meningkat hampir sebanyak 60%.Harga pada Januari adalah USD11/oz dan Disember USD17/oz.
Sejak 2003 harga perak mula menunjukkan peningkatan berbanding harga yang sebelumnya pada graf yang mendatar.Kenapa harganya mula meningkat? Ia adalah kerana perak semakin banyak digunakan di dalam pelbagai industri terutamanya barang-barang berasaskan elektrik dan elektronik.Ia digunakan sebagai bahan konduktur dimana perak adalah konduktur elektrik yang sangat baik dan untuk membuat papan litar elektronik dan komponen.Antara produknya adalah telefon bimbit,barangan komputer, television dan pelbagai lagi.Industri ini semakin berkembang pesat dari tahun ke tahun.
Selain itu perak turut digunakan di dalam pelbagai industri lain seperti fotografi,barang kemas perak,alatan perak(silverware), bateri, peralatan mesin ,soldering, panel solar, cermin(salutan), bahan pemangkin(catalysts), pembersihan air,dan penemuan terbaru untuk bidang perubatan yang berfungsi sebagai anti-bakteria.
Pada tahun 2008 harga perak jatuh mendadak kerana permintaan berkurangan disebabkan kemelesetan ekonomi global yang teruk terutamanya di dalam industri elektronik sehingga syarikat besar pengeluar barangan elektronik menutup kilang dan memberhentikan pekerja.
Ada yang berkata pelaburan perak tiada pasaran di Malaysia seperti mana emas.Cuba kita lihat satu ketika dulu sebelum trend menyimpan emas sebagai pelaburan merebak di kalangan masyarakat, tiada siapa peduli akan gold bar dan gold coin.Biasa la rakyat Malaysia ni mereka akan terikut dan cuma membuka mata hanya selepas sesuatu didedahkan.Ketika itu gold bar dan gold coin hanya dimiliki oleh segelintir mereka yang sedar akan kekuatan emas sebagai aset yang kalis dari segala kepincangan sistem kapitalis terutamanya susut nilai wang kertas.Oleh itu ambil la kesempatan sekarang untuk menyimpan perak ketika harganya masih rendah.TETAPI suka saya ingatkan ianya bukanlah pelaburan jangka pendek sepertimana juga emas.
Sememangnya betul sekarang ini perak pelaburan masih belum ada pasaran yang meluas di Malaysia.Pasaran akan lebih lebih meluas satu masa akan datang.Syarikat besar seperti Public Gold dan Nubex sudah mula menjual produk perak meraka.Di luar negara sudah sekian lama perak diniagakan sepertimana emas, platinum, palladium dan rhodium sebagai logam yang sangat bernilai atau precious metals.
Sekadar berkongsi maklumat di negara China pajak gadai disana mula menerima silver untuk di pajak dan gadai.Ini untuk menggalakan rakyat mereka menyimpan perak selain emas.Ada penganalisis menjangkakan harga perak akan mula meningkat mendadak untuk tahun-tahun akan datang kerana China mula membeli dan menyimpan perak secara besar-besaran dari negara luar.
Akan tetapi buat masa sekarang harga silver bar dan silver coin adalah lebih tinggi daripada spot price per gram kerana pelbagai kos tambahan termasuk kos premium,minting, logistik dan cukai.Paling ketara perbezaanya dengan emas adalah cukai kastam.Cukai untuk silver adalah 15%.Emas tiada cukai untuk import dan export.Saya cakap pasal tax sebab belum ada pengeluar tempatan untuk silver bar dan silver coin selain Saudara Tuan Omar Kulim yang sedang mengusahakan produk perak pertama keluaran Malaysia,syabas.Kebanyakan buat masa ini adalah di import dari luar Malaysia.
Silver Coin dan silver bar sangat menarik untuk dijadikan koleksi kerana kecantikan seni rekabentuk rekaan pada mukanya dan dalam masa yang sama boleh disandarkan sebagai pelaburan untuk jangka masa panjang.
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