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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;William Burnham, post: 3505469, member: 103249&quot;]Thanks for the considered response.&nbsp; I&#039;m a retired law professor, so I can identify with your reference to a long formal preparation period, only to be met with the lifelong learning curve of teaching, writing and research to tenure and beyond.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to quit these habits when you retire, so I try to really understand whatever endeavor I am engaged in at a given time.&nbsp; And the miracle of the Internet makes this so much more possible than it ever was before.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I know that there are many aspect of life that I won&#039;t understand.&nbsp; My blood cancer and bone marrow transplant 10 years ago are among them.&nbsp; For those, you need to learn as much as you can, relax, realize that you don&#039;t really understand it, and enjoy it on a lower, less-understanding level, while relying on the experts to deal with it.&nbsp; Fact is, I just like the double eagles and the way they look and feel.&nbsp; As a kid, I collected coins.&nbsp; But they were pennies, nickels and dimes that I found in change, which is all I could afford.&nbsp; I remember the thrill of finding the occasional Barber dime in change, which would happen with some regularity back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I always admired the double eagles I saw in the coin shops and books and remember thinking to myself that, if I ever got to a point in life when I could afford them, it would be nice to have some.&nbsp; While it angers me that APMEX is passing off something as AU when it isn&#039;t AU (though there seems to be at least some difference of opinion on the issue, even in this forum), I like looking at and handling the double eagles and other gold coins I got.&nbsp; If I don&#039;t fully understand everything about them, that&#039;s fine.&nbsp; Looking at the way gold prices have been all over the place over recent years, I realize that I could well lose money on them.&nbsp; But (to really date myself) as Walter Cronkite used to say on the evening news, &quot;That&#039;s the way it is.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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