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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fools_gold, post: 1030879, member: 20669&quot;]Well I&#039;m a simple man. I don&#039;t like to get caught up in numismatics. What a coin is graded at....to me, I don&#039;t want to keep track of negotiating a coins worth. So I only purchase simple, straight up American Silver Eagles and Gold Eagles. That&#039;s it. No fuss, nada. What the spot price is, is what it&#039;s worth. No arguing it&#039;s worth. It&#039;s well known and recognized.</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer your question, let&#039;s go back one year from now just to hear me out. You mentioned a few hundred dollars. Let&#039;s just say $300 for arguments sake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last year around this time silver was hovering $16-17. Let&#039;s just go with $16.50, right in the middle...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;So at $300 you could have bought roughly 18 ASE&#039;s right? (I&#039;m rounding out here)</p><p><br /></p><p>So say you did that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you have another $300 today. Well at today&#039;s prices, you are looking at around 10-11 now, not 18.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are almost cut in half of what you could have bought!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>If you bought 18 last year your $300 is now worth $486.....</p><p><br /></p><p>Your CURRENT $300 is still $300 but buys less. It&#039;s &quot;real&quot; value is practically half! </p><p><br /></p><p>And I think that&#039;s what people get caught up on. Seeing the $300 in their account and thinking, &quot;wow that looks nice....&quot; But the real value isn&#039;t much!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>It goes back to what I have been trying to understand pyschologically about society. That looking at their $50,000 in their bank account makes them feel nice and safe. But the real value is worthless....</p><p><br /></p><p>Ask yourself this, if someone gave you a $1trillion zimbabwe dollar, does that really make you feel happy safe and a trillionaire? Technically you are a trillionaire because you hold that dollar but it is worthless!!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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