Rock Covers Paper – GrrrGraphics
Cartoon published 12/26/2025
When I was a kid, I searched for empty Coke bottles that could be found discarded along roadsides. In the 1960s they were worth a couple of cents, and so I gathered up what I could carry and cashed them in. I quickly spent what I earned on candy.
SIGN UP FOR THE GRRRGRAPHICS NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A CARTOON- CLICK TO SIGN UP TODAYIt wasn’t until I was around 10 years-old that I saw the U.S. cent worthy of being collected. Specifically, I went after old wheat cents that were mostly culled from my mom’s purse. There was a coin shop in town, and I bought a cheap, blue cardboard folder in which I inserted my finds. I even bought a few wheat cents from the coin store to fill out part of the book, but the 1909 S-VDB cent was something unobtainable. After a few years I forgot about collecting pennies.
Sometime in the 1990s my numismatic passion reignited—only I began collecting old silver coins rather than cents. Silver was cheap back then and my collection began to snowball. I bought ‘junk’ silver coins and bullion silver rounds and bars—one was 100 ounces. It made a good doorstop. I then became interested in silver stocks and after a lot of study I realized how just undervalued silver was. After endless dollar printing and rising inflation, silver HAD to go up.
SUPPORT BEN AND TINA’S ART IT’S GO TIME! MAKE A TIP/DONATION TODAYI bought a book by a well-known precious metals reporter in Wallace, Idaho. His name was David P. Bond. I soon underlined a lot of small silver mining prospects listed in his book. They were all located in Idaho’s famous “Silver Valley.” I became convinced I would become a millionaire by means of silver and when the price-per-ounce began rising, I thought I was on my way. By April 2011, silver was around $48 and I smugly congratulated myself. There were too many big entities such as JP Morgan who were massively short silver and they had silver derivative contracts ready to explode in their faces if silver broke up over $50. That never happened. Instead, operatives from JP Morgan collusively and illegally rigged COMEX prices and the silver price collapsed. JP Morgan had to pay a fine—one they could easily afford to pay.
In a few years, silver collapsed to $13 per ounce. I was leveraged long and kept averaging down as the prices plummeted and I got wiped out. Eventually I sold my physical silver just to pay bills over the following years and then I completely gave up on the shiniest metal. I realized the silver price was totally rigged by The Commodity Exchange (COMEX) and London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). It didn’t matter how much money was printed—the big banks shorted silver to help prop up the value of those dollars. Besides, industry required low-priced silver and they were on the side of the banks. Many mining operations went dormant, being unable to operate at a profit with silver under $20, but many of them hedged their prices, so it didn’t matter.
I gave up my silvery dreams and so naturally it is finally, FINALLY going up—way up. The COMEX will most likely raise silver margins to protect the big banks and hedge funds. They will make it more difficult to buy long silver contracts, and perhaps they will even try to make buying silver impossible—only selling will be allowed. Some say the government might making silver ‘hoarding’ illegal, but that’s unlikely. More likely is what happened with GameStop—it threatened to take down hedge funds, and so brokers such as Robinhood allowed only sell orders. That went against all fair play had to be against the law, but they did it anyway and the price of GME collapsed. That’s not likely to happen with silver—buyers will find it somewhere else, like the Shanghai Exchange. People will find the best market and the COMEX could become irrelevant.
Maybe silver and gold will again take their rightful place as our real, Constitutional money. Silver might even become the next Bitcoin—but unlike crypto, silver has always been real money since civilization began. Silver can be held in one’s hand and it will still be there when electric grids go down. There is a rising demand for silver in electronics, solar, battery, and AI chip technology. Bankers are aware that silver can’t be printed—it has to be mined, which is costly and most of the easily-mined silver is already long gone. Maybe they’ll try to reel in a silver (or gold) asteroid.
Silver needs to reach around $90 per ounce to get close to the gold-to-silver ratio, and if silver is to become the next Bitcoin, look out above. If not, then at the very least silver is a store of value rather than a means to become a millionaire. Don’t make my mistake and go all in on silver. A big correction could be around the corner.
I lost my “Silver Pennies” book, but fortunately I still have my old penny collection.
— Ben Garrison
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