Wheres the Abundance of Perth Mint Rounds?
If the Perth Mint has $880 million worth of silver and gold in inventory from their certificate program, to use as working inventory to make coins, then why aren’t they producing many Australian coins that should be flooding the marketplace and available everywhere at close to spot prices? Let me explain why I hammer Perth so mercilessly. The Perth Mint has issued silver certificates. Investors trust them. Perth has issued those silver certificates for a reason, a reason that silver investors should love. As they are a mint, they need an “operating pool” of physical metal to use as inventory for operations, to be able to make silver coins to sell to the public in the form of one ounce rounds. This is a fantastic reason, and I would support that 100%, especially if they buy more silver as needed, buying one ounce for every ounce sold. In theory, that would mean that there could never be a silver shortage at the Perth Mint. There is especially no reason for a silver shortage to exist at
