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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1583100, member: 41665&quot;]Neither, actually. Guess what? There is no Santa Claus, chief. Your (illusory?) &quot;numismatic value&quot; for US Mint product is simply a marketing ploy.</p><p>WGC and US govt (Census Bureau, Customs, etc.) stats AGGREGATE .999 coin, ingot, etc. So do I. Adults can grasp &#039;the difference&#039; here, though heresy to admit.</p><p><br /></p><p>My estimation isn&#039;t about US Mint sales (a significant but unknown percentage of the US gold hording sheeple) but a more representative proxy: significant investors with more than one or two 1/4 ozt coins stuck in a safety deposit box somewhere. HA&#039;s serious coin collectors don&#039;t ALL collect Au or Ag either, but I&#039;d guess that&#039;s a vast majority. Double that, conservatively, to include any mass affluents who might have +5 ozt. and we&#039;re still ~400-600k. </p><p><br /></p><p>But still - among Americans - bullionists/Pm coin collectors are the same (mostly) &#039;older white guys&#039; and not some vast, different group of other people. Go to a coin shop, ask for yourself. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the interest of &quot;fair &amp; balanced&quot; LOL look at Page 4 of this FauxNews Poll 2/26/2010 and that question about Gold: <b>6% claim to have bought Gold, <i>as a result of </i>their fear for the US economy. </b></p><p><b></b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/022610_govspending.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/022610_govspending.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/022610_govspending.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>6% of <i>registered </i>voters (2008: 169,000,000 of 212,702 eligible +18 Americans) but where 2x as many bought a gun or ammo for protection (in 2009) and where NICS background checks in 2009 were ~+1,324,000 new gun owners versus a purported ~605,000 - 667,000 &quot;new&quot; Gold owners. </p><p><br /></p><p>Possible? Not likely. According to this FauxNews poll 18% of 2008 <i>registered </i>voters - nearly 1 in 5 ??! - stockpiled food &amp; water. Say what, 30.4 mln adults are preppers?! Now really. The <i>inflated </i>estimate for &#039;preppers&#039; is THREE (3) MILLION Americans, which sets total Gold ownership around 1 mln (liberal estimate.) Do you think 1/3rd of preppers own Gold? For the FauxNews poll to be accurate, more than half all bullionists would be NEW buyers and maybe all would be &#039;preppers.&#039; </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s far too high and exaggerated, but I accept that TOTAL # of US bullion owners might correlate between the median prepper stat and HA&#039;s estimate of serious collectors. Again, ~400-600k for serious Gold-Bugs and maybe ~ 1mln for stockpiling Silver Fish with &gt; 100 ozt Ag.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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