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<p>[QUOTE="xlrcable, post: 2285377, member: 41288"]Fellas, I'm not losing any sleep over one catalog. I thought it was an odd thing for a retailer to do, but apparently it's not so unusual after all. And anyway, the collection here isn't worth a fortune, and it's deficient enough in large shiny coins that I'm not even sure a burglar would bother to pick it up.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a relative who's spent the last forty years preparing for the economic Armageddon that's always just around the corner - you know the type. He talks about it, and when his back is turned everyone who knows him starts joking about the hoard of gold coins that he must have hidden in the walls of his house. I actually do worry that this sort of talk will reach the wrong pair of ears one day (though I don't envy the person who decides to break into that house).</p><p><br /></p><p>To the extent that I have a security strategy at all, it's to avoid looking like this guy, and a steady stream of ads from bullion dealers wouldn't help with that - mail in our neighborhood is chronically delivered to the wrong house. But this was just <i>one</i> ad. I'll find something else to worry about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="xlrcable, post: 2285377, member: 41288"]Fellas, I'm not losing any sleep over one catalog. I thought it was an odd thing for a retailer to do, but apparently it's not so unusual after all. And anyway, the collection here isn't worth a fortune, and it's deficient enough in large shiny coins that I'm not even sure a burglar would bother to pick it up. I have a relative who's spent the last forty years preparing for the economic Armageddon that's always just around the corner - you know the type. He talks about it, and when his back is turned everyone who knows him starts joking about the hoard of gold coins that he must have hidden in the walls of his house. I actually do worry that this sort of talk will reach the wrong pair of ears one day (though I don't envy the person who decides to break into that house). To the extent that I have a security strategy at all, it's to avoid looking like this guy, and a steady stream of ads from bullion dealers wouldn't help with that - mail in our neighborhood is chronically delivered to the wrong house. But this was just [I]one[/I] ad. I'll find something else to worry about.[/QUOTE]
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