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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rono, post: 1356695, member: 6492&quot;]Howdy,</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the nut, if you&#039;re strictly investing for the longer term you want to minimize the premium while buying items that you can easily sell.&nbsp; It&#039;s call fungible.&nbsp; Cripes, you can sell a Silver Eagle at McDonalds.&nbsp; However, a silver round from the five finger mint and brothel, might be harder to sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other issus is about collecting vs. investing . . . oh, feh, why not both at the same time.&nbsp;&nbsp; The reason I started collecting coins 50 years ago was that I knew that they were money and I could always spend them.&nbsp; Well, the same goes for starting a collection of bullion coins.&nbsp; &nbsp; Not only collecting for beauty, but why not history.&nbsp; You got kids or grandkids?&nbsp; Try a Pillar Dollar or Spanish 8 Real coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_real" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_real" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_real</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s see, official coinage (silver dollar, as it were) in the early days in America, where we got the double bar thru the S for the dollar sign (the pillars), and being 8 reals, was often cut in parts for small change (scarce at the time) -halved or quartered - into quarters, or 2 Bits as in &#039;2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits, a dollar . . .&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>Enjoy,</p><p><br /></p><p>peace,</p><p><br /></p><p>rono[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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