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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rono, post: 1359800, member: 6492&quot;]Howdy folks,</p><p><br /></p><p>My bad.&nbsp; Sorry that I didn&#039;t give you a little more to work with.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been collecting for over 50 years.&nbsp; My focus has been cents and nickels going back, with all the modern series in albums taken from mint products and a bit of a thing for CC mint issues and whales.&nbsp; As I&#039;ve gotten older, I&#039;ve had more time and resources to explore the hobby in more debth and with an eye toward future appreciation.&nbsp; Mostly a collector with an investors heart, as it were.&nbsp; In this light, I&#039;ve expanded into silver crowns and since 2002 have been actively riding the gold and silver bull.&nbsp; I&#039;ve tried to temper my investments in bullion by doing it in a collectors manner.&nbsp; For example, I have a book of ASEs, but also of Leafs and Libertads.&nbsp; I&#039;m acquiring modern day silver &#039;crowns&#039; on a regular basis and love the pandas and koalas.&nbsp; My grandsons love the canadian wildlife series.&nbsp; Nothing drastic, just slow but sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for investing, I lived through 1987 and rode it out.&nbsp; By the time the dot.com meltdown occurred, I was sufficiently schooled to bail out earlier on so that I didn&#039;t get completely hammered like so many.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m a momentum investor with a small portion of our portfolios.&nbsp; Since 2001, the trend has been gold and silver.&nbsp; Stocks have come and gone and they&#039;ve been a bloody rollercoaster.&nbsp; feh, you&#039;ve got to have some dividend payers as they&#039;ve been a recent trend in light of zero interest, but playing the stock market theses days is enough to drive you to drink.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, my talking about $5K to spend on coins was taken out of a context that I failed to share with you good people and I am most sorry.&nbsp; I recently had the good fortune to come in to a small sum of money.&nbsp; Of that wee sum, I have earmarked $5K for coins.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My gut feeling is to finish the indians with a 1871 AU55 for around 600, get a 1909-S VDB MS64 RB for ~2500, a nice 14D in AU and enough few bucks left to work on upgrading my buffalos.&nbsp; &nbsp; My main Plan B is to finish my CC Mint type set in AU.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m missing the .20, the trade and the double eagle.&nbsp; &nbsp; I mentioned in another postie, wouldn&#039;t it be delightful to crack them out and put them in a special Captiol black plastic holder and use it as a paper weight on your desk?&nbsp; Yeah, I know.&nbsp; Oh well . . . </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again, and sorry for not being a bit more open,</p><p><br /></p><p>peace,</p><p><br /></p><p>rono[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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