Billions of Silver Coins have been minted, (re-minted) from only millions, of recycled Silver Coins. Gold, too a lesser degree. The same metal, recycled, over & over, again, into new coins. It's an illusion, big numbers, all, from the same One. Rumors of JP Morg doing the same thing, with American Silver Eagles, to give appearance of abundance. As Mark Twain said, "it is easier to fool someone, than it is to convince them, they have been fooled". I'm so old, Silver, Mercury Dimes were circulating, when I was a child. Loved getting them in change. Precious Metals are rarer than thought. More & more, tonnes of earth, sifted, dug & moved to get lesser & lesser grams & grains. More & more fiat needed...