>when silver eagles hit $50 anon is buying 1000
There isn't a shortage of silver.
There's a shortage of "certified" .999 refined exchange tradable bars (COMEX, etc)
Refiners won't even accept .925 or .900 coin silver, which they would happily take if there was an actual metal shortage.
The paper metals market is just spilling it's shit into coin shops, as usual.