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Message:: [QUOTE="doug444, post: 2700593, member: 38849"]I don't understand why there's such hand-wringing over being ONE to the exclusion of the OTHER.  You can be sympathetic to both schools of thought without juvenile insults and jeers. What determines where you "pitch your tent" is the way you spend your coin money.  That's when you vote. And stacking has virtually nothing do with apocalypse and chaos, unless they last more than a week (time enough to starve).  In its purest form, it remains a low-risk, but not a perfect way to preserve the purchasing power of your money, and it's served that purpose for millennia.  For now, I can't think of a better way.  I have plenty of the "things" others say they need to survive; you know what they are.  In retrospect, I'm a little bit sorry I ever brought the subject up, people have been so nasty about something that is for all intents and purposes NONE of their business.  But otherwise, the newbies hear only the naive and illogical blather of the smirking haters. I want to sell, and will sell, another 25% of my numismatic holdings.  I think that leaves a good balance, then I'll move on to something else.  But I will remain willing and able to buy some numismatic coin collection that's an auction or estate "steal" -- I just won't keep it very long.[/QUOTE]