How Silver Saved My Life

In 1999, Lobo Tiggre was stranded in Mexico—job gone, three kids to feed, and no income. Paper pesos? Worthless. But in a moment of crisis, silver coins he’d hoarded since childhood became lifelines. “I sold the coins for current pesos and went to the grocery store. I literally bought food for my family that day.”

This wasn’t his first brush with fiat failure. In 1977, he watched his cash lose half its value overnight. Decades later, it was silver—not promises from a central bank—that kept his family alive. Real money doesn't ask for trust. It earns it.

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