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<p>[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 127265, member: 669"][QUOTE='Ol Silver]if this is the trend then we will soon need a grading forum, roll-searching forum, found in circulation forum, cent - dollar forums, etc.[/QUOTE]I totally disagree. <ul> <li>Grading is clearly coin-related, affecting US collectors to a greater degree than World collectors - at least in the MS/PF grades - but still affecting us all to some extent.</li> <li>Found in circulation can <u>only</u> apply to coins, as exonumia - including bullion rounds - doesn't routinely circulate.</li> <li>Cents, dollars, yen, stotinki, pence, rubles, annas, reales, baht, etc., etc., etc., are all <u>coin</u> denominations.</li> </ul><p>The listed topics all share a characteristic that prattle about bullion lacks - being discussions of things that are "collectible" first, and "investible" only secondarily. Bullion is "investible" first, second and always.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can read all I want to about investing in Bullion in just about any investment forum I choose to participate in, and that's where the subject belongs. I voted for a bullion forum only after a great deal of soul searching, because pragmatically I believe that if there is a bullion/investment forum, those interested in posting the hour-by-hour (or even minute-by-minute) fluctuations in silver/gold/platinum prices are likely to go there; but it has been demonstrated that they are <i>not</i> willing to go to the GD forum, which IMHO is the only place in CoinTalk where the subject belongs. :headbang: </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow, that's my 2 centesimi/pfennig/pice/sen/kopeks/salung worth.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="satootoko, post: 127265, member: 669"][QUOTE='Ol Silver]if this is the trend then we will soon need a grading forum, roll-searching forum, found in circulation forum, cent - dollar forums, etc.[/QUOTE]I totally disagree. [list]Grading is clearly coin-related, affecting US collectors to a greater degree than World collectors - at least in the MS/PF grades - but still affecting us all to some extent.[*]Found in circulation can [u]only[/u] apply to coins, as exonumia - including bullion rounds - doesn't routinely circulate.[*]Cents, dollars, yen, stotinki, pence, rubles, annas, reales, baht, etc., etc., etc., are all [u]coin[/u] denominations.[/list]The listed topics all share a characteristic that prattle about bullion lacks - being discussions of things that are "collectible" first, and "investible" only secondarily. Bullion is "investible" first, second and always. I can read all I want to about investing in Bullion in just about any investment forum I choose to participate in, and that's where the subject belongs. I voted for a bullion forum only after a great deal of soul searching, because pragmatically I believe that if there is a bullion/investment forum, those interested in posting the hour-by-hour (or even minute-by-minute) fluctuations in silver/gold/platinum prices are likely to go there; but it has been demonstrated that they are [i]not[/i] willing to go to the GD forum, which IMHO is the only place in CoinTalk where the subject belongs. :headbang: Anyhow, that's my 2 centesimi/pfennig/pice/sen/kopeks/salung worth.:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
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