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My poor old grandpa called yesterday to inform us that his storage unit had been robbed. At first I thought maybe he forgot his unit number or he was confused or something but it turns out that the lock was removed in the night, along with OVER 250 POUNDS OF SILVER he was hiding in there. He is 90 years old, and he doesn't trust anybody. He hates doctors, policeman, banks, & especially insurance companies because he thinks they're all out to rip him off, so he decided to secretly keep over $900,000 worth of silver coins in an UNINSURED (and really sleazy looking) storage unit facility. His collection was appraised at $40,000 in 1973, when an ounce of silver was worth about $1.50. Today an ounce of silver is worth about $40. It sure smells fishy to me (only his unit was burglarized), and it must be tough to fence a million bucks worth of silver coins and shit, but I expect that we won't be seeing any of it ever again.