BRIEF DISCUSSION OF SILVER'S
HISTORY
Silver has been a highly sought out precious metal
across recorded history. Many great empires and countries used silver,
not gold, for their economy. From the Greece and Persia, to India and
Germany, silver based commerce and economies were worldwide. For
centuries, often a person's most prized and valuable possession was a solid
silver tea set that would be showcased and kept polished to a mirror
finish. A silver set on a tray was a must for a home of quality and
represented success. Of the many special traits of silver, silver would
absorb and release heat easily so stirring a hot cup of tea or coffee
with a silver spoon would have a cooling effect that other metal spoons would not have. It
was also believed this purified the tea, a belief tracing back to
antiquity and the belief that silver combated evil forces including
diseases. We now know that was not an entirely wrong superstition as
silver is one of the most powerful of all biocides.
Throughout antiquity, silver was also believed to have the power to
destroy evil, which also is what they thought was the source of
diseases. The most well-known was the belief that silver would kill
vampires - purely evil creatures. Ancient peoples often came to
understand various natural remedies without understanding why
they worked,
so they assigned mystical powers to certain metals, herbs, roots and
other natural remedies. In many cultures, silver was at the top of the
list of magical substances. It has only been in recent history that the
extremely powerful anti-bacterial effects of colloidal silver has been understood.
It is even used to assure purify water on the International Space Station,
having none of the toxic traits of chlorine and other chemical water
purification.
To this day, trace amounts of silver are often used in
Hindu (India) foods and if you visit an Indian (Hindu) deli usually you
will find desserts that you can see the silver in - a very ancient
practice. What did they know for over 2,000 years that modern science only
recently discovered about the biocidal factor of silver?
Somewhere in this all, silver was also considered also to be
lucky. The practice of carrying a silver coin for good luck or to flip
to solve indecisions or settle a difference between people was a common
practice.
The greatest silver discovery in the USA was the great
California Comstock mine. While you may have heard of the great
California gold rush, that was largely false and a scam to try to
convince Easterners to settle the Western USA. The Comstock
silver mine, however, produced such great qualities of silver that
Germany had to go off their silver standard before their economy was
ruined.
Both gold and silver are not rare for earth. Rather
they are rare at the surface. It is believed the core of the earth has a
wide band of liquid gold and liquid silver ringing the entire earth that
is very thick. It is liquid due to the great heat deep inside the earth. Because both are very
heavy metals and have relatively low melting temperatures, it is
believed across time most silver and gold sunk deep into the earth, with only
volcano's
and tectonic plate movement bringing up veins or shooting the metals out
here and there making both rare.
The great Comstock mine silver veins seemed to go on
forever. However, the deeper the mine shafts went
following the silver veins, the hotter working the mines became plus
they faced a
growing flooding problem. Ultimately the shafts became so deep and
extensive that pumps could not longer keep up with the water flooding
nor supply sufficient cool air to deal with the temperatures that
without a huge air flow could reach over 200 degrees. The deeper you go
underground the hotter it is. Finally the Comstock had to be shut down
as they could go no deeper.
Silver has highly desirable traits for various
industries that assure its continued value. While it can tarnish, it
does not rust. By alloying,
it also can be made quite hard, where gold is very soft, so silver also
can double-duty for structural support.It is an excellent conductor of electricity. While gold
also is excellent for electrical conductivity and also does not corrode,
silver has one more unique trait that gold and other metals lack. Silver
is very anti-bacterial and naturally a very powerful biocide.This not
only applies to health topics, but also to any system for which
contamination is not tolerable - particularly for electronics, computers
and electrical systems that must not be contaminated. The powerful
natural biocide effect of pure natural silver is why your colloidal
silver will never spoil nor does it decay (rust away) so your colloidal
silver will as pure and potent 100 years from now as the day you receive
it.
Silver is currently the most popular investment
and collectable precious metal, not gold, and historically had
demonstrated superior price stability.
Token of appreciation with 32 Ounce 120ppm Colloidal
Silver
Circulated (some wear) Eisenhower Silver Dollar Random
years, not necessarily as in picture
President Eisenhower was commander of all
Allied
forces in World War II and subsequently was elected president. He is
possibly most known for developing the US Interstate system and
undertaking racial integration of the US military, among other
accomplishments.
If you are older and visited casinos, you probably handled many an
Eisenhower silver dollar, which is a heavy silver clan
coin, not pure silver. The Eisenhower silver dollar is often called the
"slots dollar" as it was the high dollar slot machine bet before most
slots now are coin free and issue only paper slips. In fact, the coins
we are shipping are all former Casino coins. Since severely worn coins
looked bad and could jam their slot machines, they are in good
condition for circulated coins.
It is a large, heavy coin and grandparents still like
to give them to grandchildren because they seems so substantial and
special.
PLEASE
READ THESE CONDITIONS CAREFULLY:
Lost Shipment reimbursement?
While our customers are honest, it is not always the customer who opens
a received box. Large silver coins might be very tempting to some
people.
IF the Post Office, FedEx or UPS shows that your order was delivered to
the address that you provided, you are agreeing that you are not
entitled to a reimbursement or replacement of your order, including the
coin. So be certain that you provide your CURRENT delivery address. You
will receive the tracking number by email (check your spam email box
too) to know when it is arriving.
If you fail to sign for the package and it returned we will deduct the
cost of shipping from a refund unless we entered the address you gave us
incorrectly. Do not order unless you are certain you
want the product and can be available for delivery. By
ordering you are agreeing that if your order is delivered according to
the shipping company (UPS or the USPS) to the address
that you provided it is agreed that no
reimbursement or resending of the 2017 coin or gift box will be
provided.So please
make certain you give us your correct address and that whoever might
sign for it is someone you completely trust.
