Silver Price Tracker

So, my father has some vintage Silver pieces from 1973 and 1974 produced by the Franklin Mint with all kinds of different national banks on each one. We’ve been trying to figure out how to unload them—either to collectors or to folks that will simply melt them down for the silver alone. I figured I’d do a little coding.

The first is a plot over the last couple of months of Silver prices:

silver_price_last_couple_of_months

For those interested, yahoo finance has data going back plus twenty years—the data looks like this:

all_historical_data

Here is a plot of some models’ predictions for future Silver prices:

silver_price_prediction_models

For those interested, here are some pics of the silver ingots themselves …

I’ve got the Certificate of Authentication:

authenticity

and then a picture of the ingots themselves:

ingots

I’ll try to update the plots pretty frequently. And if anyone is interested in making an offering on this just let me know at kspicer@stfrancis.edu.

Nota bene: Code to produce this is available in this repo here.

P.S. Some more models, ETS, SARIMA, and LSTM …

Here is one week out:

1_week_predictions

And two weeks out:

2_week_predictions

And three to six months out:

3_and_6_months_predictions