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Message:: [QUOTE="chip, post: 666488, member: 19122"]I HAVE really really enjoyed reading this thread, my advice I think you are already taking, and that is not to worry too much about a few thousand dollars, money comes and money goes, mostly goes. The best deal I made was done with no knowledge, no study, I did not even ask advice, I was working before my naval enlistment started, I was living at home and for a few weeks I would go to the coinstore and pick up a st gaudens gold double eagle, I paid 83 dollars apiece for them, I ended up with 4 of them, I carried them in my pocket to impress the babes, (they were not impressed) I showed them to my dad and being a thousand times more well versed in the ways of coins he educated me about the damage I was doing to them by carrying them in my pocket. I was going into the service so I asked him to hold them for me, I forgot about them until I was feeling the pinch around the time my 2nd child was born, then I remembered them went and picked them up, I figured I could at least get a couple hundred for them ( I paid slightly more than 330) Boy was I happy when I got 400 apiece for them. I have no idea what coin was hot when I bought them, but I bet if I had asked ten collectors I would have had ten different answers. So FWIW, my advice is to buy the nicest early flowing hair dollar 1795 you can find.[/QUOTE]