Actually, for $10.00 you can buy a full ounce of silver today. If you are speculating on the silver market, your money goes there, not on silver strikes. When silver Hits $16.50 an ounce then you are buying the $10.00 strike (at face) for the true value of silver. My thoughts are that silver will be trading in the $25 range in the next few years, and that will remain the base price for a decade or 2 with spikes up into the 100.00 an ounce range. In this scenerio the $10.00 strike is obsolete, period. One point to remember, the government has about ZERO silver reserves left in its stockpile. 20 years ago they had several Billion ounces.