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Message:: [QUOTE="Azpatriot, post: 1265166, member: 32979"]We have 6 or so coin shops here in town...not counting the "we buy gold/silver" pawn shops and storefronts....Everytime I have gone into the shops the last 6-7 weeks (I go several times a week to 1-2 out of the 6) it is standing room only with 30-50 year old housewives swapping the family jewelry for cash....or seniors buying the living snot out of gold eagles/maples or Silver Eagles/junk silver. I kid you not that a shop that would have 2-3 customers in an afternoon now has 20-30 over a couple of hours. Had a 70 something lady in front of me last Thursday that dropped 5k cash out of an envelope and picked up 2 gold eagles and 20 ASE...the owner of the shop looked over at me smiled and rolled his eyes. After she left he joked how things were getting a bit much when the grey hairs start to flock ( no offense intended to the retired community). Perhaps it is just Arizona where we seem to have a preponderance of survivalists/tea party seniors/believers in doomsday that is driving this mad rush, but in this town everyone is buying. All I am waiting for now is the obligatory "cant lose money in gold" to work it's way into the media and on the lips of casual conversations...then I know the flurry will be about over.[/QUOTE]