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2021 THE POWERFUL CASE FOR SILVER Presented by THE MONETARY BENEFITS OF GOLD PAIRED WITH THE INDUSTRIAL UPSIDE OF COMMODITY METALS. THE INVESTORS TODAY FACE A WORLD POWERFUL OF ENDLESS MONEY-PRINTING AND CASE FOR SOVEREIGN DEBT DEFAULTS. SILVER Assets that used to be considered safe havens are now among the most risky. Paper promises aren’t good enough anymore. Investors want personal possession of physical assets with inherent value. For more than a decade, gold has stolen the media limelight as the premier safe-haven investment. Investors attracted by gold’s strong fundamentals are rushing to buy the yellow metal at bargain rates and reap the reward when gold rises again. But this singular focus can blind investors to profit opportunities in other precious metals. In this report, we will make the investment case for silver — a metal with the monetary benefits of gold paired with the industrial upside of other commodity metals. Fortunately, the best reasons for buying physical silver are also the easiest to understand: Silver is the everyman’s gold. Silver is a valuable industrial Silver is undervalued relative 1 With a growing number of 2material. Because silver conducts 3to gold. Back when paper countries such as China and Russia heat and electricity better than any currencies were actually backed by seeking to limit their exposure to metal on earth, more than half of precious metals, the historic ratio the dollar and even set up alternative annual global silver production is of the value of an ounce of silver to payments systems that would destined for industrial use. Silver is an ounce of gold was about 16:1. undermine the greenback as the expected to play an important role Recently, that ratio has stood around world reserve currency, investors all in the “green energy” revolution and 80:1. Given today’s gold prices, if around the world are considering is an important element in solar silver were to realign with its historic the prospect of de-dollarization and energy production. According to a ratio it would be worth over $75 per already imagining a day when the Silver Institute report, the boom in ounce! If you think gold has yet to dollar will be worthless. Throughout green technology will consume over find its ceiling, there is good reason history, whenever the value of 1.5 billion ounces of silver through to believe silver’s rally will be even fiat currencies became unreliable, the year 2030.Couple with surging more dramatic. governments and citizens turned to demand for the metal in electronics the stability of precious metals to manufacturing and biomedical transact day-to-day business. But applications, global demand for silver gold’s high value-to-weight makes it is projected to surge in the coming impractical for daily transactions. On years. the other hand, silver serves as a very convenient medium of exchange. 1 THE POWERFUL A USEFUL GUIDE: CASE FOR SILVER At SchiffGold, we believe that investing in gold and silver should be simple and painless. We’ve developed this special report so you can confidently understand: ▶ Why professional investors are buying as much silver as gold in terms of value – and much more in terms of weight. ▶ Which physical silver products are truly investment-grade and which are known rip-offs. ▶ How to purchase physical silver at very low prices. Even if you already understand the importance of protecting your wealth with precious metals, this report will serve as a great educational tool to share with friends and loved ones, so they can also prepare for the future. Sincerely, Chairman SchiffGold 2 THE SILVER: POWERFUL THE PEOPLE’S METAL CASE FOR SILVER recious metals can grow your Zimbabwe, Venezuela and other Spending a couple of ounces of silver Pwealth. More importantly, countries. on a bag of groceries is not only they allow you to protect your easy, it’s how people have traded for existing wealth. That’s a fundamental Gold is a convenient medium for thousands of years. difference between real money and protecting large stores of wealth. A fiat money. small volume of gold is worth a lot in To this day, the affordability and trade. But don’t make the mistake of historical value of silver make it a Central banks destroy the investing gold alone. Due to its high valuable alternative currency in every value of fiat money by printing value-to-weight, gold bullion can corner of the world. If you take any more and more and more of it. be impractical for daily transactions. message away from this report, it On the other hand, real money You’ll probably have a hard time should be: cannot be manipulated. Its value is buying a gallon of milk with a intrinsic. Since silver and gold are 1-ounce gold coin. Store your wealth with gold, scarce resources, the marketplace spend it with silver. determines their underlying value – Imagine that a major currency Silver Has Always collapse occurs tomorrow. Suddenly, not political calculations or central Been Money planning manipulation. As a result, the prices of basic necessities skyrocket. People don’t have enough in times of great economic turmoil, Silver has functioned as circulating silver and gold tend to maintain their fiat cash to buy the food, shelter or fuel they need to meet their currency for thousands of years. It’s purchasing power, while fiat money been 50 years since President Nixon can potentially become worthless. immediate needs. In this scenario, you’ll want to have gold, no question. unpegged the US dollar from the We’ve seen the results of But you’ll also want to have silver on gold standard. Just six years before hyperinflation firsthand in hand to use as a medium of exchange. that, US dimes and quarters still contained 90% silver. In silver’s long and illustrious history, five decades Silver Barter Bags represents a very thin slice of time. ixed bags of pre-1965 US dimes, quarters, and Today, the silver in a pre-1965 half-dollars are known as “junk silver.” These Mercury dime is worth about $2.04, Mpopular products are a very good means of barter, while a silver quarter of the same but with the recent surge in demand they have vintage can fetch around $5. And become expensive and hard to find. that’s with silver prices at a relatively SchiffGold now offers 250-ounce bags of privately low level. Imagine if your change minted fractional silver rounds, called jar were filled with those little gems Silver Barter Bags. They are among the instead of today’s coins made from most cost-effective ways to buy silver. The low-value base metals! rounds in our Silver Barter Bags are just as useful They call these old coins “junk in barter and even more pure than junk coins. silver,” but they clearly aren’t junk. In fact, bags of so-called junk silver Click Here coins are a very popular investment to watch Peter Schiff demonstrate product. Collectors call them “junk” the Silver Barter Bag because they aren’t in pristine mint » 3 THE SILVER: POWERFUL THE PEOPLE’S METAL CASE FOR SILVER US Mint - Silver Coin Sales condition. Nevertheless, these coins 50 are full of valuable silver and simple 45 to identify. Most importantly, you can easily spend these silver coins, even 40 if you just need to complete a small 35 transaction. This makes junk silver 30 extremely useful assets in a financial 25 crisis. 20 Record Silver Sales 15 at US Mint Ounces Annual Sales - Million Troy Total 10 5 Silver coins are no longer issued 0 for general circulation, but this hasn’t stopped investors from buying newly Sc ww.goldchartsrus.com minted silver bullion coins at record record-breaking trend continued in place silver sales are flourishing. An rates. Look at the sales figures of 2015 with 47 million ounces sold. escalating international currency war the United States Mint, the largest Sales began dropping of in 2016 is driving citizens around the world producer of silver and gold bullion as investors got caught up in the to precious metals as an alternative coins in the world, in the chart above. euphoria of the stock market bubble, to collapsing paper currencies. Just Beginning with the financial crisis but will almost certainly rev back up look at China, where silver demand of 2008, we see an obvious surge with the inevitable onset of the next exploded with the full liberalization in silver sales. As the value of their financial crisis. of the Chinese silver market in 2009. 401(K)s evaporated, investors rushed And in India, more people are buying In fact, we saw a big jump in silver from bullion shops because to buy something of real value. Since sales as the Federal Reserve cranked then, demand has continues to grow they cannot afford gold but still up the monetary printing presses want an inflation-proof asset. India by leaps and bounds as more and in response to the economic chaos more people lose faith in the Federal imported 5,598 tons of silver in 2019. caused by government shutdowns These high sales aren’t surprising Reserve’s inflationary, easy-money due to the coronavirus pandemic. The policies. when you consider that citizens US Mint reported over 30 million in emerging markets like China In 2013, we saw an all-time ounces of silver American Eagle and India are among the first and record high in US Mint silver coins sold in 2021. hardest hit by a currency war. During bullion sales. This new record of Surviving an a currency war, countries devalue more than 42.6 million ounces of International Currency their own currencies in an attempt silver vastly exceeded 2012 silver to stimulate domestic business by sales by 26%.