It's another month of casually buying some silver. This time, I got a few Mexican Libertads on relatively cheaper terms. For much of 2023, I couldn't find one under $40/oz. While the mid-$30s is not a fire sale, it's nearly $10 less than the bloated prices.
The national coat-of-arms used throughout Mexican history has to be the best feature of a Libertad. They feel more intricate than the usual designs on other silver coins. Of course, that doesn't take away from the fact that other coins have details that are works of art.
Aside from the Libertads, I also picked up a pre-2016 Silver Panda. As you can see from the photo, there's a 1oz coin and a 30g coin. In the beginning, the Pandas came in ounces. Today, they are in metric units. Thirty grams is less than one ounce (around 31.1g). I've tried to find out why the CNGC changed from troy ounces to grams. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything useful in English. I'll dig around in the Chinese netscape another day.
Will I try and obtain different nominations (in weight) of Pandas? Maybe. It might be something to do down the road, but I don't want to because they tend to have higher premiums.
Another month. Another batch of silver.
