Storing Silver
Synopsis
Storing your silver is an essential part of protecting its value as an investment. This blog explores the different options available to silver investors, from home storage to secure vaulting. It also explains how secure, insured, and VAT‑efficient storage solutions can help safeguard your holdings while improving long‑term investment outcomes, ensuring your silver remains easy to manage, protect, and sell when the time is right.
Accessing Your Investment
You are investing hundreds and thousands of pounds and have plenty in bank accounts, then the chances of you needing to sell some of your silver for an emergency is slim. However, there may be times that you may need you to dip into your investment. In this case it is can be better to sell a number of smaller coins or bars rather than a one kilo bar or coin. This way you can control your investment and sell as little or as much as you like.
Physical Silver
Most of our customers prefer to physically hold their silver investment. In times of economic uncertainty, it makes sense to protect your wealth by owning silver and gold. When you buy bullion from Chard, you can rest assured that the coins and bars that you buy will be your property.
Secure Storage At Chard
If you ask your insurers about adding your investment silver to your household insurance you will be asked a number of questions including the value and where you will store it. You may be asked to buy a safe and install an alarm system to the insurer’s specifications. We can take away the hassle of secure storage when you store your investment silver - and gold - in our fully insured secure vaults. Our facilities are fully insured and your bullion will be covered at the live metal price, so if the price goes up, you will be automatically covered at the correct amount. For only 0.6% excl VAT, you can store your silver bullion at Chard. It doesn’t matter whether you have bought the coins and bars from us or not.
VAT free silver
We can now offer VAT free silver coins and bars for storage overseas. We offer VAT Free Silver storage in Zurich and Frankfurt, with our most popular Vat Free 1 oz Silver coins stored in secure bonded warehouses. Although the Vat Free Silver maybe stored overseas, the silver will belong to you. Not only will you benefit from paying zero VAT, you'll also be safe in the knowledge your silver is stored in a secure location.
Furthermore, if you decide to sell your silver to Chard, we will buy it back at a higher premium than in our showroom or by post.
Please ask one of our members of staff for more details or visit our webpage On-Site Vault Storage.
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