Collecting and valuing … silver As well as adventures, I intend this blog to gather together my thoughts and results of various researches on collecting items, mainly antique and vintage ones. The current market There are two things to look at here: silver as scrap metal, and antique silver as collectable objects in their own right. Humans have used silver since prehistoric times. It is sometimes found native, and is easy to extract from ore. It is about a hundred times scarcer than copper, but twenty times more common than gold. It has many nice properties: it is the most conductive and reflective metal, it has the best balance of being antibacterial yet nontoxic, and is ductile and malleable yet strong. Silver therefore has many industrial applications, and while some have become obsolete (photographic film) others take their place (solar cells). The current silver price is around £450 per kilogram . ...
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