U.S. GEORGE WASHINGTON COMMEMORATIVE HALF DOLLAR, SLABBED PROOF 69 NY NGC

With all the chaos around the prices of silver and gold the last few months, here is a gorgeous silver half dollar that is much more than just a chunk of $80 per ounce silver.

This NGC slabbed .900 US silver half is a proof 69 and strong cameo as well.

At $50 you have a terrific cameo proof as well as about .36/ounce of silver. Just in the time I have posted everything in the store and items for our world's fair ticket sale, it seems lke any item with precious metal content changes price every day or two. With silver more than doubling since mid-2025 and continuing its volatility, a seller really needs to pay attention to what he/she has for sale--every day! It seems like the price of gasoline and gold and crude oil and thus collectibles is about s unstable as it can be. With Trump and tariffs causing so many different issues for so many people, coin and collectible collectors are far more in the thick of things than everyone wants.

When silver went from $35/ounce to $100 in a matter of months, despite history, iut seemed that a large percentage of buyers and sellers didn't foresee prices dropping dramatically even went silver was briefly into triple digits.

Complaints have increaded a LOT about coin/medals sellers. Too many sellers couldn't make changes quickly enough in their listings that when silver jumped from say $70/ounce to $90 seemingly overnight, a large percentage of sellers couldn't think of any solution other than to cancel bidders' winning bids. I agree with collectors who put the blame squarely on sellers who couldn't (or wouldn't) changed their listings virtually daily. If the bullion prices affecting coins makes an item suddenly "worth" $50 not $30, it is up to a professional seller to spend that inordinate amount of time to make sure that their prices are accurate even if it means changing a price 4 or 5 times in the course of a week-long listing.

Those of us old enough to have dealt with the crazy prices in 1979-1980 remember all too well the chaos it caused to the collectibles coin market. Suddenly, a coin with $10 in silver content and a numismatic value of say $30 or $35 was not a problem. But when suddenly that coin had $40 in silver value, the entire hobby was turned upside down. The circumstances of silver prices soaring 45 years ago was very different than the current situation. That was manipulation of the silver market and when discovered, silver dropped like the proverbial lead balloon. Today we're not seeing $80 silver becoming $10 an ounce in a week; unfortunately, that was a blip on the metals market. It was artificial, silver dropped overnight and collectors and dealers alike could be among those making a huge profit or a suffering commensurately large losses.

Today the prices are on a roller coaster, but the ride isn't a series of unimaginable hills and valleys; the changes are softer and gentler. But instead of seeing silver go from $80 to $10, we're seeing silver go from $95 to $75 (or lower) and while no expert can accurately predict all of the changes, everyone seems to see that today's $75 could become $85 or $65 in a week or two.

Even these relatively moderate changes up or down still