Silver hit a high of $37 at mid-week as auction houses are flooded with antiquesilver consignments. I subscribe to Artifact.Live Auction Alerts and Friday set afirst time example of all seven auctions featured this day contained silver objects,often shoehorned in with books or paintings.

Grandma's silver teapot is brought out of storage to be rendered into cash. It seemsevery silver item is sure to sell as investors are buying at the inflated price.Most think silver will rise to $50 an ounce.

Unlike the Hunt Brothers silver boom of the 1980s in which they attempted to cornerthe world market for the metal, this is broad based demand caused by uncertaineconomic times.

Obviously this is affecting the price of silver coins. I have witnessed common datesilver dollars rise from $9 to $29 at my local coin club over the last few years.You pays your money and you takes your chance.