@Gustavo WoltmannHolding a small (and I mean small) 2-3% of precious metal shares is not a terrible idea.

The good news for us is, the treasure doesn't lie under just one shell. 

There are fees associated with purchasing and selling precious metals and this took me over a week and a half and I actually lost $500 on this.

I always have at least a $15k budget on our properties, there may be old asbestos siding in good shape but if it's ugly then we're going to paint it, if the porches on the front of the house are ugly, we're changing them, wrap the window trim in metal, throw a new roof on even if the current one isn't yet leaking, parge the foundation, replace the old cabinets, don't use $2/sqft laminate flooring, replace the dang trim if it's been painted over 100 times, remove the ugly wires from the outside of the house and have the cable company install new ones, fix the grading of the yard, trim trees, and repair sidewalks.

And if radiators heat the place, the pipes and radiators sometimes have already experienced damage (cracked or removed for the metal).

I dont see the difference,  Saw the metal ones too ,,in hindsight they would be better. 

In Iowa you can get an estimate from the county assessor's website or the actual number from the state treasurer's website.

I let a fence installer work through my backyard on a neighbors project and when it was all done they had replaced a chainlink fence with a wood privacy fence but inside the lot line ...leaving cut off metal posts sticking up 2” on my side but not on my property.

Im at risk of making myself sound like a wacko here... but i like to think that my silver/gold coin collection is a better hedge against the next crash than US Dollars would be since precious metals tend to appreciate during economic uncertainty.

They are always cheap thin metal, and they get banged up pretty easily.