I bought when gold was 290 and silver was around $5. It wasn’t the very best investment I could have made, but a tripple in 9 years isn’t bad either.
Me too. Put everything I had into PMs in 2001- some physical, but mostly PM stocks to get the leverage stocks give you. At the time, I thought it was the closest thing to a sure thing I would ever see. Junk silver was selling for close to its face value! SSRI was selling for $2. Hit $45 today. When you hit it with capital gains and consider the drop in the USD, it doesn’t look quite as good, but I’m not complaining.