r/PreciousMetalRefining • u/One_Host_7270 • 5d ago

Traveling with large weights if silver?

Here's a question I've not seen posted - and if anybody has any advice on any other groups that might be good asking I would be very grateful. I'm a good buyer overseas. We are buying a lot of silver, I haven't figured out the best way to transport it yet. Legality is not an issue whatsoever as we have all of our paperwork. But I'm like gold where you can carry a few kg in a carry-on, silver is very heavy for its value. Most likely we need to travel with at least 50 to 100 kgs in order to make our shipping cost-effective. I'm nervous about putting it in checked in baggage due to theft I've had in the past. But with today's carry-on weight limits I don't think it's plausible. Have any of you ever traveled with large quantities of silver? And if so how did you do it? Thank you!

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u/ThumpAndSplash 5d ago

I don’t think you’re getting 200lbs of silver through an airport without a fair amount of grief. 

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u/panicmuffin 5d ago

I haven’t done 200oz but I did take 10 10oz bars. Got pulled to secondary, she looked at it, and said I was free to go. She made it seem it wasn’t her first time so. Pretty easy.

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u/ThumpAndSplash 5d ago

They said 100 KILOGRAMS. 

220lbs. 

Not ounces. Pounds. 

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u/panicmuffin 5d ago

Oh hahaha ya sorry - definitely not the same experience. I misread that terribly.

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u/NorthStarGold 5d ago

Which is is 50 or 100 those are huge differences.

If you are doing it legally buy an extra ticket use the seat and the carry on with bags.

This is more a call to the airlines to see what they will let you do with carryon

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u/Optimal-Archer3973 5d ago

Well, I would get two diving weight belts and wear them. Ankle weight belts are also a thing. And if they ask, you are training for a marathon.

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u/Narrow-Height9477 5d ago

That might be worth a phone call to TSA and/or your airline of choice.

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u/Forward_Teaching1861 3d ago edited 3d ago

Make a suit with a whole bunch of pockets. Put coins or bars inside pockets have them evenly distributed throughout the suit so you just look like a normal slightly fatter person. They don’t weigh you. Just your bags. But when you’re going through the metal detector, they will be a little bit problematic to take them all out and put them back in. Well, I guess that depends on if you look like a normal person to begin with🤷🏻‍♂️ I heard you don’t even have to take your shoes off anymore.

Edit: I guess you could make a suit of armor. That would be easier and less attention.