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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmbdii, post: 4180, member: 655&quot;]Sure, you can buy a quarter ounce gold coin they&#039;ve denominated &quot;ten dollars&quot; for around $125 of the paper dollars.&nbsp; That certainly makes the paper look valuable, doesn&#039;t it?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t make my comment invalid, more likely just a little ahead of its time.&nbsp; Give it a few more years and the $10 gold eagle will cost $500 paper dollars, if indeed the paper is still in circulation.&nbsp; there&#039;s one thing I can say for sure:&nbsp; Nobody ever went broke from buying gold and silver coins.&nbsp; The same can&#039;t be said for people who buy fad collectibles, which is what fiat money always turns out to be sooner or later.&nbsp; Lodz ghetto zincs are now worth money because they&#039;re scarce.&nbsp; Fiat coins with an issue of 500 million pieces per denomination/type aren&#039;t going to attain that status for centuries, probably.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I know that some collectors are still dutifully buying the various sets foisted off on the unwary buyer by the mint as collectible coins, but I also know many collectors who simply don&#039;t care for any circulation coins struck after 1964.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It&#039;s kind of like the hobby of collecting paper money.&nbsp; Some collectors value it as collectible and some don&#039;t.&nbsp; If one is collecting, or hoarding, for intrinsic value, there&#039;s a different aim for what one purchases.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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