JIM ROGERS - All FIAT CURRENCY will be WORTHLESS in 2014. Dont SELL GOLD or SILVER
Legendary investor Jim Rogers sees now as a great time to load up on gold and silver coins - and he's not alone.
A record 7.5 million ounces of silver coins were sold in January as investors hunted for a safe haven investment.
"You  can't get [silver coins]. They sell out," Rogers, who owns a rare 2013  silver coin, said on Yahoo! Finance's "The Daily Ticker." "Several mints  have run out of coins because everybody's worried about the future of  the world."
And 150,000 ounces of American Eagle gold coins were sold in January, the highest monthly total since July 2010.
"Gold  has been up 12 years in a row which is extremely unusual for anything,"  added Rogers. "A lot of speculators are rushing into gold right now.  I'm not rushing into gold, but I'm certainly not selling it. If it goes  down, I'm buying more."
Gold and Silver Prices in 2013
While gold is only up half a percentage point so far this year, silver is up around 5%.
Many  analysts, including Money Morning Global Resources Specialist Peter  Krauth, see both metals ending the year higher, especially silver.
Gold  and silver will be spurred by the inflationary actions of central  banks, strong investor demand and decreased supplies. Krauth expects  silver to outperform gold because of the added demand from its various  industrial uses, and its low price compared with gold.
In fact,  Krauth sees silver prices, currently trading around $31.50 an ounce,  reaching $54 an ounce. He sees gold, now trading at $1,675 an ounce,  hitting $2,200 an ounce during 2013.
Gold and silver may be off  their highs but that hasn't hurt demand for gold and silver coins. Sales  of silver eagle coins hit a new record last month and gold coin sales  in January reached their highest level in almost 19 months.
"You  can't get [silver coins]. They sell out," says legendary investor Jim  Rogers. "Several mints have run out of coins...because everybody's  worried about the future of the world."
Rogers, chairman of  Rogers Holdings and author of the new book, "Street Smarts: Adventures  on the Road and in the Markets," tells The Daily Ticker that he  "wouldn't rush in right now" to buy more coins, but he's not selling  them either.
Rogers says he'll buy more gold only if prices fall further (gold is currently trading 12% below its record high of $1,900).
"Gold has been up 12 years in a row which is extremely unusual for anything," he notes.
Gold  and silver, like most commodities, are priced in U.S. dollars. Rogers  is not a fan of the greenback but is an owner because other currencies,  such as the Japanese yen, are collapsing.
The yen has fallen to a  2-1/2 year low against the U.S. Dollar and has weakened against the  euro as a result of the Bank of Japan's aggressive easy money policy.
The  man who heads the Bank of Japan, Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, said  Tuesday he would step down March 19, three weeks earlier than planned.  He was presumably under pressure to ease even more aggressively in order  to reverse Japan's long-term deflation. Investors have turned bearish  on the yen but Rogers says he is "contemplating buying some" because of  the decline. 
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When  asked which currency holds the most promise now, Rogers says it might  be the Russian ruble although "he's stunned" to hear himself say that.
"Russia  has massive problems...that's why the ruble is so cheap," he notes.  "There's great change taking place in Russia and whenever you can find a  cheap place with massive positive change taking place you should buy  all you can."
In the meantime, he advises investors not to sell  their gold and silver coins. "There is no paper money in 2014 or 2015  that will be worth much of anything," he says.
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food.
Jim  Rogers is an author, financial commentator and successful international  investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The New York Times,  Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times  and is a regular guest on Bloomberg and CNBC