  by Al Doyle for CoinWeek ……  Imagine owning a corporation with
annual sales of $761 million. Better yet, wouldn’t a net worth
of that amount go beyond your wildest dreams? So how can
761,000,000 (that’s more than 3/4 of a billion) be a relatively
mundane number?  That high nine-digit figure represents the
ounces of newly mined silver worldwide in 2011. While
761,000,000 can be an imposing sum in many circumstances, just
do the math and see why it’s no big deal when it comes to the
silver supply.  silver bars1 SILVER 101   IS 761,000,000 A LARGE
NUMBER?  NO! Since the metal is treasured worldwide as a store
of value and for its hundreds of industrial uses, what would
each person’s share of this newly discovered ore come to? Divide
761 million by the current world population of 7.1 billion, and
it works out to just over 1/10 ounce per person, or 15 cents in
pre-1965 U.S. silver.  Putting it another way, 2011′s silver
production averages out to a little over $3 per person. Even a
third world laborer could scri