if you have to ask you shouldn't be dabbling in it.
I started studying monetary system when I was in 4th grade so . . .
if you have a stash of old silver, congrats.
if not, now might not be the best time to start hording it. It will make you 'glow' in some sense.
Gold is good but heavy and hard to carry.
Silver is good but even heavier and very hard to carry.
Silver in bulk is hard to sell.
you always have to deal with the whole 'buy/bid/ask' deal.
and if you don't understand that . . . well . . . there is no one who can give you a short story that is clear.
the basic point: it's like a new car. As soon as you buy it, it is worth less.
if things get hard then it's better to have a house and food and fuel. Gold won't be the thing.
I think you should stop trying to push the price of these commodities.
If a gold asteroid is discovered, and crashes down to the Earth?
or if we figure out how to easily convert silver to rhodium (it shouldn't be that hard . . . , they are just a Helium atom different in some sense)
so that's it. I say if you don't know to do it, or not do it, then don't.
the Silver bug people habitually profitteer off of newbies.
When silver hit 50 dollars an ounce in the early 80's, very very few people actually got that price. And any dealer who bought at that price most likely got burned.
Silver tends to stay at the same value for years and years. And it only 'pops' on paper. And then there is a significant lag to market to 'get' that price.
if you are in Bergen county, you probably have an advantage.