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Sept. 7, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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See EIGHT forms of SILVER for barter and asset protection - PrepWithMike
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So check it out.
We've got all this silver here.
We've got silver jewelry, silver spoons.
Yes, actual silver spoons.
Silver dimes and quarters, junk silver as they're called.
We've also got silver rounds, one ounce silver coins of three different mints, three different countries.
I've got this interesting kind of, you can break these apart, little silver gram mini bars.
I've got a silver plate, a silver bar, a big chunk of silver here.
I guess that's it.
Oh, and then a scale here.
And the purpose of this video, oh yeah, and I have this silver rod back here.
We'll talk about this.
But the purpose of this video is to give you practical information about what are these different types of silver, what might serve you best, how to protect your assets, how to be ready to barter with silver, or in other words, to trade in silver.
And the reason all of this matters is because, of course, the economic collapse is, well, eminent.
We're right on the verge of it.
At least that's my assessment.
I guess we'll see what happens.
But all of these forms of silver have different uses.
And that's why it's important to know what you intend to use your silver for and what form is going to serve that purpose the best.
So the automatic default for a lot of people is this right here, the American one ounce Eagle silver mint coin, you know, the Liberty right here.
And it's a beautiful coin.
My God, these are gorgeous.
Silver itself is just amazing.
And we're going to go over here to what we call the junk silver.
Now, these junk silver, these are pre-1963 mostly.
I mean, some are pre-1965, but a lot of these are made in the 1940s and 50s and so on.
These are dimes, and these contain roughly about 90% silver.
It varies from...
Different years and different types of coin.
But overall, these are 90% silver.
That's what's recognized in the industry.
And of course, these are so-called junk silver quarters.
Again, all pre-19...
What is that one?
That is 1964 right there.
I saw some in here that are 1943.
Here's one that's 1941.
Look at that.
Isn't that interesting?
So these contain about 90% silver.
So if you want to know how many grams of silver are in one of these, well, that's why you use this scale over here.
Let's go over to scale.
So you put this quarter on your scale here, and this is set to grams, and it shows you what?
6.172 grams.
So you take that number times.9, and that tells you how many grams of silver that you have in this quarter, which is going to be like 5.5 or something, whatever that comes out to if you do the math.
You just take the number on the scale, multiply by.9.
So that's how many grams of silver you have.
Whereas in this thing here, Which is called the Vilcambi Swiss Combi Bar, which I had to buy on eBay.
I'm pretty certain I overpaid for this, but I wanted it for the video.
This thing, each one of these little squares is a gram, and they're designed for you to kind of like fold and bend and kind of pull these off.
I mean, it's punched on both sides.
I'm not actually going to do that right now, but each one of these little squares is a gram, and all of them together, that's 100 grams.
So if you want to...
Rock it that way.
Pay somebody like, here's 12 grams of silver.
You could do it that way.
Or you could just figure out how many quarters and dimes is going to work.
And the advantage of this...
The dimes and the quarters and the nickels over anything else is that, frankly, these are minted by the United States government.
You know, everybody in America has seen dimes.
They're recognizable.
They've seen quarters.
They know what quarters look like.
And they're kind of hard to, you know, to forge or to fake, right?
I mean, it's very difficult to do that.
And they have a certain type of sound to them as well.
I don't know if you can hear that.
There's a certain sound to the silver coins that's very different.
And even these, oh, check this out.
That's a certain special sound.
I don't know if you could even hear that.
But my advice is if you're going to trade or purchase with silver, use this stuff because it looks older.
It doesn't look like you're loaded.
It's like, I got some change in my pocket, but it's silver change.
And this will be recognized very quickly in a collapsed society because silver is going to become a very common way to buy and sell and trade and so on.
So again, these are great for stacking if you plan to sell them back to dealers or wholesalers, but these are great if you plan to use them in your local community to buy seeds or vegetables or beef or gasoline.
Use vehicle, I don't know, whatever you want to use it for.
Now, let's go to the spoons here, because I want to show you this.
These are actually silver spoons.
These are kind of collector's spoons.
There's one spoon for each state.
I bought these online, and I don't know what...
Does that say what state it is?
I can't quite read that, but each one of these is a different state.
Oh, Yellowstone, there we go.
Yeah, you see the bears.
And if you had to go in and trade something, Like, you desperately needed something and you wanted to go in and barter.
You could bring these spoons in and explain, yeah, these are silver spoons.
Whether they believe you or not is a different story, but you could say, you know, these are silver.
They can determine whether or not they believe you, and then they can weigh them, and they would give you something for the silver spoons.
Same deal with jewelry.
That's why we have all this jewelry here.
Look at all this random stuff.
I bought this on eBay.
It was this random lot of just mostly silver jewelry.
And you can see, I mean, what is this stuff?
What is that?
It's some kind of like Aztec god symbol.
I don't even know what that is.
Here's the Eye of Sauron or something.
Here's Hunter Biden's crack cocaine storage bin.
I think that opens up.
Yeah.
There we go.
There's a little cocaine bump box right there.
I don't know.
There's a little heart pendant.
Whatever.
But these have a certain value per gram when they are actually silver.
And so if you're going in and you don't want to appear like you're loaded with either the constitutional silver or the silver coins, you can go in to a bazaar, a barter place, whatever.
Can I trade this silver heart locket for a loaf of bread?
Or whatever the case may be.
And you can weigh this sucker and say, oh, how many grams is that?
Let's see.
What does that say?
Well, that's 7.1 grams.
So depending on how much silver is in that, that might be worth in the modern day, like $6 worth of silver or $5 worth of silver.
But yeah, could you trade this for a loaf of bread?
Probably.
With, you know, a little bit of asking.
And that might be a smarter thing for you to do compared to, like, rolling in with, I've got the Queen's Britannica!
Nice, shiny, one-ounce coins.
Give me bread, you know?
First of all, nobody wants to see the Queen here in the south of America.
You know, Texas, southern states, they don't want to see the Queen.
Okay.
Anyway, you get the idea.
So, I don't know.
This is random.
Look at that.
It's like a fake diamond or whatever.
There's all kinds of weird, random stuff in here.
I don't even know what I'm going to do with this now.
I only bought it to do this video.
And I don't have any use for it.
All right.
Now then, moving over here.
I want to mention this silver plate is something that we actually use to make colloidal silver.
So you may or may not know, but at the Health Ranger store, we have colloidal silver products.
And I custom designed all the electronics that were then engineered for this.
And we use these large silver plates.
Actually, some of the plates are bigger than this.
And this is four nines silver.
And we do an ICP-MS analysis after we produce the colloidal silver.
And over time, the silver gets ionized and then put into solution, into a colloidal solution in the water, obviously.
And so that's why it's called colloidal silver.
But that's another industrial use of silver.
But if you bought a bunch of plates like this, and these are one millimeter thick, by the way, you could also melt this down and just sell it as kind of like a blob of silver.
Here's a blob of silver right here.
It's a block.
And these blocks have...
They all have some kind of stamps on the back.
Okay, so that's a 999, which means 99.9% silver.
100 ounces, you can see there.
And then, I don't know, some stamp of conformity.
Asahi Assayers Refinders.
There we go.
That's where this came from.
Asahi Assayers.
So, boom, 100 ounces of silver right there.
What's the purpose of this?
Well, if you want the best overall wholesale bulk price of silver because you want to stack just, I don't know, kilos and kilos of silver in your super special price.
Vault or bunker or whatever you have.
This is actually the way to get the most silver mask for the least amount of money.
The problem is, you don't want to drag this in.
It's like, I'll trade you some seeds, but I'm going to need change.
Do you have some change for that?
What can you give me?
It's too big.
And it's also not cool to carry that in your pocket.
Like, are you happy to see me, or is that a 100-ounce silver bar in your pocket right there?
Something is dragging.
But you see, everything has a different purpose.
So the giant bar is great for just stockpiling loads of silver.
The coins are great for having smaller denominations.
You know, easier to buy and sell back to dealers because they don't have to test this to make sure it's silver where there's a lot more counterfeiting in solid bars, especially when it comes to gold, by the way.
And then, you know, the coins have a special purpose and then the jewelry and everything else also has a special purpose.
Now, I've got silver rods and I think these are five millimeters thick.
They might be four millimeters.
I have these silver rods that I was using in my early testing of a colloidal silver system a few years ago.
And what I came to realize about these silver rods is that they're very cool for hiding your silver because nobody looks at this and thinks, oh, that's silver.
What they think is that it's an aluminum rod or maybe a piece of stainless steel or something, and you can bend it into shapes because silver is quite malleable.
So if you want to own silver that you could hide, you could take this and you could quite literally bend it into the shape of, let's say, a coat hanger.
And you could put it in your closet, and it looks like you've got a bunch of coat hangers in there, but you've actually got silver.
And then later on, you can snip off pieces and weigh them out and you can barter with those, you know, during the Mad Max collapse or whatever you think is going to come.
So, hey, about these scales, let me show you something.
It's important to calibrate them.
And most of these little digital scales will come with something like a 50 gram piece.
You see that?
50 grams.
So you need to make sure that they're accurate.
So...
You set that to zero, and then you take the 50 grand piece, you pop it on there, and you hope that it's close to 50.
Yeah, 49.98 something.
Yeah, that's close, but then there's also a calibration mode on all of these scales, and you can use this weight.
But don't touch this weight with your bare hands.
That's why I'm wearing gloves, because if you touch it with your bare hands, then your skin oils are going to alter the weight, and it can cause oxidation, which also alters the weight.
It actually adds weight to it because it's pulling oxygen out of the atmosphere to bind with these metals, and then you end up with extra mass and everything is thrown off.
So, you know, that's not cool.
You can verify everything you want in the world of silver using this digital scale.
How much does this US Silver Eagle weigh?
Look at that.
It's 31.16 grams basically.
And I use the metric system because that's what I'm used to in the lab.
But there you go.
If you want more affordable coins, here you go.
What are these?
Krugerrands from South Africa with some bearded South African dude on the back.
I have no idea who that is.
But these are a whole lot cheaper, even though they contain the same amount of silver.
See?
31.1 grams of silver.
But the premium on this is a lot less than the premium on the U.S. Mint coin.
Silver Eagle, because, well, people want the U.S. Mint more.
But think about the Britannias like this.
Now, these are from the U.K. And let's see, what are these?
Wait, look at that, 31.17 grams.
So they're all pretty much the same as they should be.
And yet, this is from the U.K. It's fairly recognizable, but it's a whole lot cheaper than the U.S. right now.
And you can get these coins from the Canadian mints as well.
And Australian mints.
You can get kangaroos and things like that, and those can be a much better deal in terms of the amount of silver that you get for your money.
So every different form of silver has a purpose.
Now this silver, the junk silver, and the silver coins and the silver bars, you can get all these from most silver retailers.
Now our sponsor is the Treasure Island Precious Metals Company.
And they've been a great supporter of Brighteon, so I will recommend them because we get almost zero complaints about them.
Actually, the one complaint we got was just a confusion, a miscommunication situation.
But they do a great job of getting silver to you.
They've got silver in stock.
They ship it secured.
And they're guaranteeing delivery to you and they've got extremely competitive prices.
So you can find them at brighteonmetals.com or just go to metalswithmike.com and that'll take you right to their website.
For the record, I'm not paid a commission on any of the silver sales with them.
They are a sponsor of Brighteon and some of our podcasts, but I don't earn any commission.
We don't get paid any commission.
So that's how they can give you the absolute best price.
Very, very competitive.
But for things like the silver jewelry, you know, they don't deal in that.
They don't deal in silver spoons or silver rods or plates or whatever this stuff is.
The Vilcambi Swiss.
So depending on the different forms that you want, you may have to look around.
You may have to eBay some of this stuff.
Just remember, you're going to pay a fortune per gram In the form of jewelry or historical spoons, which may or may not ever be recognized by anybody.
They're like, what is that?
I've never seen the Yellowstone spoon, you know?
Whereas these, everybody's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Liberty Coins, you know, U.S. Mint, Silver Eagles, we got it.
Here's how that's accepted.
Everybody knows that.
That's universal.
So it just kind of depends on your plans and what you want to do.
And how covert you want to be versus the fungibility or the external recognition of what you have.
But I got to say that, you know, these are the tools you need.
You're going to need this kind of scale.
Hey, I got an idea.
Let's zero this thing.
Let's weigh this supposedly 100-gram bar.
Let's try that.
Let's see if it actually weighs 100 grams.
Here we go.
Oh, it blew off the scale.
Look at that.
This scale doesn't go to 100 grams yet.
Okay, how about this?
Let's break it in half.
Okay, you ready?
Let's just break this sucker in half, and we'll weigh half of it.
There we go.
Look at that.
It did break in half.
Okay, let's see if it's 50.
Well, there we go, 50.6.
Looks like we got a little bonus.6 grams in this sucker.
Isn't that nice?
Okay, so that's how you do it.
You break off these little squares and then, like, hey, what can I get for 50 grams, man?
I'll give you shoelaces or whatever it is.
So that's how that works, and I guess you can break them into really, really tiny pieces to where you lose them.
I'm not too sure about that system.
I guess.
We'll see.
But these you're not going to lose because you can hold on to them, you know, one ounce of silver.
Right now, the spot price of silver is, let's say, right around $20.
But the premium of these means that these might cost you $30 to $35 at the moment, even though the silver...
The silver spot's only roughly about $20.
So the premium depends on what you want, supply and demand, what's available out there.
But I can tell you this, all this stuff is going to get wiped out when the financial system hits the fan.
You won't be able to source any of this anywhere.
In fact, I was just recently interviewing Bill Holter.
He was telling me about this woman in Texas that bought $27 million worth of these.
27 million.
Where did you even find that?
You know, they had to wipe out all the retailers all over the country just to get that.
It was a massive order.
And that woman who wanted it to be known, by the way, I guess has a massive vault somewhere.
She must have hired a moving company with a forklift or something.
pallets and pallets of silver.
That's a lot to move around, even if it's in bars, you know, but she wanted coins.
So, hey, somebody in Texas has $27 million worth of these coins.
And that's today's price.
They're probably going to be worth $100 million in another couple of years based on really what I think is going to be happening in the world.
And by the way, let me just mention, I don't recommend buying precious metals as speculation.
That's not what I'm into.
Even with crypto, I never said buy crypto to try to get rich and hope it goes up.
This is about preserving assets and preserving value because these coins, once you have them, they're not going to vanish.
They're not going to disappear.
Nobody can hack it and steal your wallet and steal your passport or passport, I guess, in Trump's case.
Nobody can get in and steal your silver unless they're breaking into your house, but you could do something about that if you had to, you know?
Whereas if something's just ripped off from your bank, it's just gone.
Or if something vanishes in an online wallet, it's just gone, you know?
The power grid goes down, like, there it goes, and it's gone.
Well, that's fantastic.
A really smart decision, young man.
We can put that check in a money market mutual fund.
Then we'll reinvest the earnings into foreign currency accounts with compounding interest, and it's gone.
But this stuff is not going to vanish.
You've got it.
It's physical.
These are elements.
They're on the table of elements.
They've existed in the universe, in the cosmos, since, well, almost since the beginning of time, although I guess the lighter elements had to create the heavier elements over time.
So maybe not the very beginning of time.
That was hydrogen and then helium.
But then eventually it became silver and also gold and other things, of course.
But we're not going to get into a physics lesson here.
Well, I guess we could bring back the firearm and talk about lead, but you get the point.
These are basic tools of survival, all of these things, to defend yourself against financial collapse.
And it's a deliberate collapse that is being waged against us.
They're trying to make everybody go broke and also starve you to death and freeze you to death with a lack of energy, especially in Europe.
And you know the rest of the story.
So...
That's what this is all about, folks.
And by the way, everything you see here is perfectly legal, right?
Nothing's illegal, not even the firearm, of course.
Everything's legal.
Everything's purchased legally.
Everything's legal to buy and sell and trade with other people.
I mean, all this stuff you can buy on eBay, some of it probably on Amazon.
If you wanted to, you would overpay big time.
By the way, yeah, if you want to pay the most ridiculous price for a silver coin, shop on Amazon.com, where you can pay double the Of what it's worth, actually.
Or eBay, sometimes, for that matter.
But if you want a great price and guaranteed delivery and a trusted source, that's the Treasure Island Precious Metals Company.
MetalswithMike.com is who I recommend.
And that's where I got these quarters, by the way.
Yeah, I'm a customer, too.
And I don't know.
Did I buy?
No, I bought these somewhere else many years ago.
I think I bought these Britannias from Treasure Island.
That's why they look so new and shiny.
I didn't realize the Queen's face was going to be on these.
Next time, I got to tell those guys, hey, hey, I don't want anything with Queen Elizabeth on it.
Because this is America, man.
We're here in Texas.
I don't want Queen Elizabeth on my silver coins.
I'd rather have kangaroos, frankly.
Give me armadillos or some raccoons even.
I just don't want the dang queen, please.
I've got to turn those upside down.
Let the queen eat dirt.
Yeah, face down right there.
All right.
There we go.
That's my take on silver, folks.
I hope you learned something here.
But get yourself squared away now because it's no joke.
The financial system is headed for a collapse.
This is real money, real assets.
This is what's going to be around.
This is what people are going to be trading and using as currency and money.
It's real money.
This is what's going to keep you alive and keep you fed.
And this is what's going to hold value as inflation destroys the dollar.
And even as the global de-dollarization effort accelerates and the dollar gets abandoned by most of the population of the world, you know, we're talking China, India, Russia, Turkey, most of the world, not going to use the dollar.
This stuff is going to be recognized everywhere, by every country, by every economy in the world, in fact, through all time of human history.
This has been money for as long as civilization has existed.
This is going to outlast the collapse of the U.S. Empire and even the new, the coming World War III. This stuff will still be here and it will still have value no matter what happens to human societies.
So thanks for watching.
This is Mike Adams here.
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All kinds of stuff.
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Thank you for watching.
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