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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 24652579, member: 24754&quot;]I haven&#039;t spent a whole lot of time in coin shops, but this is a story that sticks out in my mind:</p><p><br /></p><p>My brother and I saved up money for a down payment, scooped-up a cheap foreclosure house following the crisis back in 2011, remodeled it, and sold it for a bit of profit. We had the cash sitting in the bank and couldn&#039;t figure out what to do with it, so we thought we&#039;d have a bit of fun speculating and decided to spend it on a 10 oz gold bar. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was still in graduate school at the time, dressed like a typical bum student, and drove a typical, junky, student car. I drove my old beater to a local coin shop with $13,000 cash in my backpack (it was 2013, gold was around $1200/oz). When I walked in, the guy running the place was leaning on the counter shooting the breeze with 4 other guys that had pulled up some fold-out chairs.</p><p><br /></p><p>I asked if he had a gold selection and he pointed at a case. I didn&#039;t see what I was looking for in the case, so I asked, &quot;Do you have any 10 oz bars?&quot;. His response was, &quot;Hah! Do you know how much that would cost?!&quot;, then he looked back at his friends and they all started laughing, cracking jokes about math, and so forth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say, I made my purchase elsewhere <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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