Hmm, yeah. Like you said - too expensive to buy physical silver now. The spread is you posted - just crazy, at least for AE.
But people could perhaps get 90% coin silver. Still some good deals there it looks like. I just like how the Kennedy half-dollars look - totally unscientific.
Agree, and the price isn't that bad. About 14 times face, iirc. It's what I would buy over SLV - again, that's just me. :)