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Message:: [QUOTE="postalx, post: 599996, member: 18345"]The reason this interests me is that when I was a mere pup in the late 1980's, serving as a 3rd Engineer on a oil tanker, my chief engineer was a complete coin hound and kept his hoard aboard ship in his safe. We talked a lot, and I learned a lot. One of the things that was "seared into my memory" was: he held out two $5 Indian gold coins for me to inspect and asked what I thought the difference between them was. Of course, I was clueless. "This one is worth $50 and the other is worth $500!" he explained and  went on to explain rarity, scarcity and demand. Whoa!! Shortly thereafter, rare coins took off on their historic moonshot, under circumstances that are dwarfed by today's version of financial meltdown. Long story short, he sold off near the top and retired younger and happier than he ever thought possible. Could that scenario repeat itself in the near future? There is already a flight of capital seeking safe havens, and the fecal matter has yet to truly hit the oscillating air mover. If there is one thing I've learned over the years it is that history repeats itself over and over; only the players change. Get in early![/QUOTE]