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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2981642, member: 71723&quot;]Yah, thanks Mont, my 22-year-old son is even more into coins than I am. His ultimate collection will stand on the metaphorical shoulders of mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am just self aware enough to realize that we don’t so much “own” our coins as sign up to be their curator.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, my son never DID understand the precious metals fetish. He always found it bizarre. He didn’t grow up in the southwest either, as I didn’t. I suppose I can understand the local historical angle in New Mexico for residents there. My area’s historical angle is creating the U.S. government, so fiat currency as a perjorative term doesn’t fly here so much. The organization for which I work daily is the one that “lent its building” to the First and Second Continental Congresses to secede from one country and form another.</p><p><br /></p><p>I, for example, view government as a fundamentally MORE essential element of money than silver or gold EVER was. If you read the economic history of the northeast, handling silver was never popular here. Paper currency was always preferred. I remember customers in my dad’s shop giving literal silver dollars given in change BACK and asking for $1 notes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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