Silver is a Harsh Mistress, can be exciting as all hell but she will break your heart.
Most people just call it “The Devil’s Metal”. Financial journalists use this specific nickname because silver is a notoriously brutal asset to trade.
It is far more volatile than gold. It lures investors in with massive, parabolic spikes (like a 128% surge) only to brutally crash back down to its baseline production costs, wiping out later buyers.
Where I live it there were pocket areas where sales were going crazy when prices hit $100, but mostly no one was buying except for well under spot, no one at all was buying Sterling.
Your thinking of it as investment jewelry.
It is a raw material of just about every high tech innovation coming down the pike, including the batteries this thread is about.