These silver bars  have been cooped up their secure hiding place for awhile now and it felt good to let them out to shine in the light of day, get my hands on them, and admire them.

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My focus the past few months has been very heavily on accumulating cryptocurrency and I've shared a lot about my activity in that realm and here on Steemit, but now I'd like to share some of my other holdings that I'm very proud to have. I've seen others from the #steemsilvergold community on steemit post pictures of some of their stacks on here so this is a bit of what I'm sitting on (indefinitely).

# <center>My prize possession</center>
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I bought this Johnson Matthey kilo silver bar a couple of years ago when silver was just a little bit lower than it is now in price.  That's about 32 troy ounces of silver and the weight of it sure feels good when I pick it up. I was accumulating pretty aggressively when Silver dropped under $16 and even 15 per ounce and I had just gotten a nice bonus at work one June so I bought this big boy.

# And a few of my other favorites...
The other bars shown in the first picture above are 10 and 5 oz bars which are what I consider normal sized buys. I'll usually pick up 5-10 oz of silver when I see a deal that's less than $1.50 over spot price. Sometimes APMEX sends me emails about flash sales and I get it for less than a dollar per ounce of spot and there's free shipping over $100. Quite a deal! I love bargain shopping no matter what I'm buying whether it be cryptos, hard assets, or whatever.

I've currently got 2 more things coming to me--one is a quarter kilo silver bar and the other is a 1/10 oz gold round. I'm guessing they'll both arrive in the next week. 

My silver collection dwarfs my holdings in gold and I'd like to change that in the not too distant future. I'll be sure to share the new arrivals when I get them.

I love to have a diversified portfolio and precious metals should definitely be at least a small part of one's overall net worth. Cryptos are great but if the sh** ever really does hit the fan who knows if the web will be up or the lights will even be on. God forbid that ever happen but the way I see it we must prepare for the worst and hope for the best...so the old saying goes.

I hope all you gold and silver bugs enjoyed seeing this as I like seeing what others are stacking. It's really nice having this community of people who are passionate about alternative investments.

Happy Stacking!