Taking silver to be on the safe side? 

The days come where the stock exchanges will jump around again, like they did in 2001. Also the currency based investments are sometimes in the upper risk class.

The golden rules for investors allways told that some percentage of you investments should be bound to precious metals. Most people think about gold if they hear about precious metals. But what about silver?

According to the Monex Deposit Company "World demand for silver now exceeds annual production, and has every year since 1990". If you want to purchase silver bars they say "Monex prides itself on having the best us silver coin prices and programs in the silver coin industry".

Silver at Wikipedia
Silver has been known since antiquity. It has long been valued as a precious metal and used in currency, ornaments and jewelry, as well as utensils (hence the term silverware). Silver bullion has the ISO currency code of XAG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver