Blacksun? totally agreed with what Cayce said about Russia in some his posts (on his thread about a yearly Jupiter calendar he's using in place of the Sun). I hadn't considered it until then.
From my own viewpoint, there's no reason whatsoever that the U.S. will be capable of creating a better world. Why not Russia?
Another "prediction" made by Cayce about the same time...and it may have even been in the same reading, I can't remember but it was definitely around that time....[and keep in mind that Cayce was actually channeling one of the members of the "White Lodge" when given questions that pertained to other than "health matters" and sometimes it was the angelic that He channeled.] is that there would be another war among the populace of the United States in the 21st Century, a "civil war", so to speak but not one of race, creed, or political but rather between the haves' and the have nots'.
I have no other choice but to conclude that currency, i.e. "fiat money" will eventually...and rather most suddenly, will one day become worthless.
I heard recently, from a rather knowledgeable source that the American dollar is presently only worth about 7 cents. That is, that it is backed by about only 7 cents of gold and, or, silver for every dollar presently in circulation. By that bit of info one can speculate that silver, which has a present spot value of around $15.00 an ounce is actually worth around $225.00 an ounce in American dollars currently.
That isn't a reason to rush right out and start buying silver in the notion that one will become rich later on because the American dollar will eventually be nearly worthless if not entirely. It has to be understood that a dollars worth of silver will still buy you what a dollar backed by hard currency will, and has always, bought.
Sean David Morton wrote on the matter about twenty years ago and He pointed out that in the year 1800 a twenty dollar gold piece would buy a man the finest suit of clothes made and in 1900 a twenty dollar gold piece would still buy you the same. Now twenty dollars in American currency will hardly pay for the tie to wear with that suit.
If "currency leveling" were to happen to the American dollar, and a number of financial pundits believe that it is an inevitability, and if it happened today it would take a person 7 to 8 times as many dollars to buy what one dollar bought them yesterday.
As it is beyond most peoples ability to know with any degree of certainty whether they may be a glut of silver or gold or any other precious metal that is out there in horde or waiting to be mined and refined, the smart "investor" is buying a bit of each and also buying a bit of each for numismatic considerations.
The U.S. began minting silver dollars again in 1986 and a few of the years since then are a lot more valuable to collectors as to the "Silver Eagles" minted for those years. For example; the spot value of silver right now is $15.28 an ounce. A 2018 minted "Silver Eagle" is selling for $17.77, that is the lowest price one might find. A 2019 "Silver Eagle" is selling for $17.97, currently. So there is either more of them minted last year than there presently has been for this year and whether any more are yet to be minted this year is a question I don't know the answer to. But a 1996 "Silver Eagle" in brilliant, uncirculated condition is selling for over $85.00 right now. Most from the 2000's are selling for $20 to $28. A 1986 will cost you about $44, but that's only because it was the first year they were minted. There were 5.3 million minted that year and there are many years since then that fewer were minted. From 1986 through 2007 there are only a very few years that they minted more than 10 million. In 1987 11.4 million were minted but the years that followed minting was in the 4 to 9 million range, with the exceptions of 1996 when only 3.6 million were minted ...and thus giving the reason for why the price for one is so high... and in 2002 10.5 and in 2006 10.6 million were minted.
In 2008, however, nearly 20.6 million were minted and that number climbed steadily ever since with the exception of 2012 when 33.7 were minted as compared to the year before when the total was 40 million. That number peaked in 2015 at 47 million and dropped to 37.7 the following year. However only 18 million were minted in 2017. I haven't the figures for 2018.
Some of the silver rounds produced by independent refineries can be rather valuable too. A few years ago I bought a few sleeves of such silver rounds and a couple of years later I sold them, to a fellow managing the apartment complex I live in, as I needed some quick cash. He later informed me that He took some time on the internet to discover a couple of them were rather valuable. One was selling for around $60 among collectors and the other for over a $100. He was a most pleasant fellow and He and his wife had taken the managerial position so as to pay off medical bills, so I really didn't mind or get upset about it...and besides, He sold me a lovely roll top desk, "secretary sized", that he had paid over $400 for new, for only $50 when they moved out. Which I later sold for $125.
One must be careful as to not get fooled by "Silver Eagles" which are not made of silver however. They may look like the genuine article but serious collectors will get a small neodymium magnet, place it on the coin, and then tip the coin at a slant. The magnet will gently slide off if it is real silver. A lot of counterfeits are coming out of China, I hear.
There are also "proof grade" Silver Eagles that have mint marks. Only the "proof" coins are given mint marks.
If one does invest in silver as a hedge they should also consider getting bars of silver as they don't have numismatic value and can be used more confidently in transaction if the need occur. Gold and a bit of platinum too. As for gold coins one should invest in them in the same manner as one should in silver.
I got all the above info as to mintage and current prices from the JR Bullion web site.