/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>29455969
>I inherited a stack of 40 Krugerands from my grandfather after he passed away. He acquired nearly all of them after in the early 70s at a cost average around $120 (or about $500 today).
Also got a bunch of pms from my grandpa, e.g. the 10g gold bar in >>29453815. Most of his stuff went to his children (aka me dad and aunt) when he died, so now they're keeping it.
Fun story:
A few years ago when my aunt was visiting us, we cleared out a few of grandpas things (he used to live with us) and there was some old, terribly smelly pleather briefcase. Pleather really starts to smell and get sticky after a few decades, and having been stuffed in some stuffy closet probably didn't help either.
>Ew…what's that?
>Fuck, let's throw it away.
>Hm, kinda heavy
>*pling*
>Something just fell out!
>Oh, a maple leaf!
>Shit, gotta ignore my nose and have a closer look.
>more maple leaves, silver and gold, some Krugers, bunch of russian silver and gold coins, 5 platinum coins, all in all about 10k€
>Almost threw away some tiny pic related still, because it got caught in the lining of the briefcase
That was a fun day of remembering grandpa!

>>27602812
>Idk which general to post it but guys lithium stocks be soaring after it's dip recently
Well, Li isn't really a precious metal, but since it's mined, I'll allow it!
(though, please note, I don't have any say over this thread).
Li is an interesting play (both geologically and financially), but fuck me if I know how.
My Li stocks are all over the place.
(Random stock photo of my Au coin to stay on topic)

And I have a question and a story for you guys.

How do you store your stuff? At what point does it make sense to invest in a safe or lock it in a bank vault? Or just put it in my sock drawer? That's what I am doing right now. I guess spreading it around might decrease the risk to loose all in a robbery (some also in the underwear drawer, some with the cuttlery, some under my flower pots…), but I guess the most great ideas I will have, some criminal had before me.

and kinda related story:
>grandpa dies
>so family meets to clean out his house to sell it
>he made quite a bit of money with stocks and such
>he also had quite a bit of silver and gold
>all correctly passed on to his kids
>just rummaging through the house, to see if there is anything we could need or sell and to throw away the rest to make it look neat and tidy for sale
>stinky ass 60's pleather attache case in the attic
>ugh, lets throw it out
>why is that so heavy?
>pling
>Oh, some silver eagle!
>open it
>oh, some more!
>smells like mold, so we all gather at the table in the back yard under the apple tree to sort through it
>more eagles, some maple leafes
>some random russian red thingies (pic related)
>looks like one of those european dimes with loads of copper
>OK, google time
>WTF?! thats almost pure gold.
>more random russian things, but silver and shiny.
>Turns out it's platinum coins
>more "boring" silver coins
>some obvious gold coins, with the receipts
>all in all about $25k in this smelly bag
>stored in the attic since forever
>multiple times he had workers on there to repair the roof and to upgrade the heating
Was kinda fun, sitting in the garden with the whole family, counting gold and silver