At record-high silver prices, virtually all forms of bullion silver are trading wholesale below the commodity market spot price. As I type this on Wednesday, January 28, at least one of them has returned to purchasing .999 pure bars, Silver Eagles, and Canadian Silver Maple Leafs. This shutdown of liquidity in the silver market is leading many coin dealers to take different measures to manage the capacity strain. Today, there simply isn’t enough physical silver inventory to halt prices from potentially reaching much higher prices in the near future. A proposed 15-cent Fractional Currency issue depicting living Ulysses Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman had already been printed in specimen form.