"I'm having a real difficult time right now getting physical metal," he said. "It's the crazy world of gold and silver: Sometimes the paper market is going down but you can't find actual physical items. There's just a shortage of the physical metal. The private mints and the government mints are just behind, and there's a lot of demand for the physical out there."
I found this interesting:
His shop generally pays the spot price for physical gold, Harrison said, but because the market price is below miners' production cost, he doesn't expect to see the price drop much more.
Seeing that other places pay pennies on the dollar, i find this dubious.
