When people buy silver or gold, how do you know it’s even real? What if it’s just the surface of the bar coated in silver and the rest is just iron? I mean, these are the same people who falsified peer-reviewed scientific studies to block the cure to a virus in the middle of a pandemic. Would it really be beyond them to sell us some fake silver? Even if you take it to an inspector to look at, or send it off to a lab, unless the dude inspecting it is your childhood buddy who you truly trust, all of these people in charge of “verifying” your precious metals could be in on the scam, or are just so compartmentalized in their job that they actually don’t know what they are even doing, they just stamp approved when they are told to stamp approved, just like the editors of those peer-reviewed journals.