Consider the copper-to-silver ratio

[shinnosuke]

Here's a ratio you might have overlooked:

http://www.silverdoctors.com/forums/topic/silver-related-coppersilver-ratio-csr-severely-out-of-whack/

Talks about sorting, too. The writer is getting 30%. Wish I averaged those kinds of returns.

[John_doe]

Very interesting. Dude has a lot of time on his hands, but I am glad he does so I do not have to do this. It would be even better if we had live charts like on coinflation with this information.

[johnbrickner]

Nice post, good information. Copper ratios who woulda thought?

[ZenOps]

I use British copper pennies to compare silver to copper in coinage back then.

A 9.4 gram 1970 British copper penny being over 3x the weight US pennies made much much earlier. That is probably closer to the historical relative value ratio. Britain also started to remove silver as early as 1947, much eariler than the US or Canada.

[68Camaro]

I got no response on this post made some time ago, but I'll re-link it since there are a few takers for this topic here, in case of interest.

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=14625

[shinnosuke]

I got no response on this post made some time ago, but I'll re-link it since there are a few takers for this topic here, in case of interest.

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=14625

I like it. Certainly one rational way to consider the ratios.

Now would someone please point me to where I can find all the sunken, copper-hulled British ships?

[johnbrickner]

"68Cam wrote:

So, how do gold and silver fall into this?

Well, silver was valued at a 71.1 to 1 ratio over copper, and gold at 1066.67 to 1 over copper.

Take that, and do the math, and the current values of silver and gold, expressed in constant copper prices, should be:

Silver: $236/toz
Gold: $3543/toz

And that's about where we expect these to go, BEFORE hyperinflation... when people stop relying on fiat promised of broken governments."

68 Cam:

Nice job of digging for the original information and extrapolation to here and now! I like it.