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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Get Some, post: 1243618, member: 32099&quot;]Well back right before obama was elected and there was a lot of worry in the financial markets, I was working as a driver where I spent a lot of time on the road. I would listen to talk radio like Glenn Beck to pass the time. They always had goldline commercials where he always sponsered them and a lot of talk about how gold was set to rise rapidly. I had got a sum of cash around $7000 and I wanted to invest it in something. I didn&#039;t understand stock markets and I wanted something physical that I could own. Gold seemed like a really cool thing to own, I like fancy things like diamonds and jewelry and I just imagined me swimming in money like scrooge mcduck or something. I started buying gold from ebay and would even go out of my way to go to coinshops around and see what kind of gold they had. That was the first time I was really exposed to the collector&#039;s stuff when I saw a penny they were asking like $1000 for. Who would pay that for a penny I thought. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not long after that, I decided to buy a little silver too. As soon as my first roll of silver dimes came I was mesmorized by them. They were so heavy, they had that cool sound to them and I started buying more silver dimes. So I bought a lot of silver dimes and I was filling albums with the best coins I could find for the year and I came across one that seemed pretty bad. It was dark and probably been passed on numerous times as an unwanted coin. When I took a closer look at it to make sure it wasn&#039;t a 1916 d or something I noticed something very peculiar about this coin. It seemed to be in much better shape than all the other coins I had gotten. What from a distance looked ugly on closer inspection was dark toning with green and orange colors. It seemed that this outer layer that covered the coin not only gave it a unique colorful appearance, but kind of protected it from damage that other coins had. That was the day I really started collecting coins instead of investing in bullion. It&#039;s funny how this one unwanted coin inspired such a love for collecting in me and I have been a big fan of toned coins ever since even though my silver and gold bullion are long gone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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