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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;OldGoldGuy, post: 2114942, member: 72697&quot;]<font face="Georgia">My coin addiction. Wow. What a phenomenal way to phrase the question. Really, I feel this is an under-rated thread. Because that really is what it is, in so many ways, an addiction. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">I mainly collect, and dabble in US Silver and Gold. I have put together what I think most would say is a respectable &quot;collection&quot;. I have been &quot;responsible&quot; or rather, I feel I have been, as I have hedged by accumulating bullion in various forms as part of a complete portfolio. And I look at each coin purchase with the eye of a licensed Financial Advisor (a lifetime ago) and weigh it as an investment, whether as part of the collection, or a flip. US Coins are of an age of technology that they are highly uniform and grade-able, allowing reasonably fair markets to take place relative to their price, condition, etc. What I mean by that, is that it is possible for anyone in the marketplace to look at any specific purchase, again, for the collection or a flip, and say &quot;yes, that was a fantastic price you paid&quot;. I can comfortably now lay out 5 figures on a coin I feel can be graded and flipped in a reasonable amount of time. (In my case, not a very long time). And that feeling, the &quot;risk&quot;, the &quot;high&quot; one gets from profiting; that is very addictionish. Good word. Addictionish™. This is all easily correlated to an addiction. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">But then. There is the dark side of addiction. <font size="6"><b>@n€iEn†$</b></font>. <font size="4">Oh my dear, how logic and reason go out the window with ancients.</font> Hi, my name is OldGoldGuy, and I am an addict.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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