Red oak, Dazed and Coinfused, red oak. 🙂

This is why the concept of stacking to survive is such a gross misapprehension of things to come, Dazed and Coinfused. Once the social order has devolved to the point where all normal human interaction and standard economic exchange has ceased to function, anyone venturing about in search of a barter opportunity of precious metal(s) for food and/or water would most likely have expended every single cartridge with which their crossed bandeleros had been festooned long before they had any chance of succeeding in their quest.

Talk about synchronicity, Dazed and Coinfused and c_q, I was just thinking the very same thing myself, which is: “Life is one big Ponzi scheme.”
By the way, the international crime industry generates fully 3.6% of the world’s yearly economic activity, which is equivalent to 2.1 trillion dollars or the annual GDP of Brazil, the current eighth largest economy on the planet.

I hear crime pays well, if it were a country I think I remember it being ranked 2nd behind US. But California is 6th if it were a separate country. Life is one big ponzi scheme.

I’m not sure, c_q, that anything will ever stop thievery of one sort or another. It’s my unswerving opinion that some people will engage in absolutely any endeavor other than work.

Good for you, c_q, for holding fast to the true spirit of numismatics. We who are about to make further additions to our collections salute you!

I purchased exactly 1 palladium coin, just because I thought it would be cool to have one of each metal the mint used for coins (the other metals being fairly easy to get). not one of each type of finish, not one for each mint mark, not one for every year, just one single solitary palladium coin was fine for me. sure, when palladium shot up over $2000/oz I was tempted to sell it and make a profit, but then I would have zero palladium coins, so I didn’t.

poor palladium, down in the dumps, on the plus side maybe that means catalytic converter thieves won’t get as much and they’ll stop stealing them

Then again, why would any of us – except, I suppose, those looking to sell what palladium coins they already have – give a darn. In fact, for our own buying purposes the more it declines in value the better, that is, as long as the Mint adheres to its pricing grid, which is to say that as palladium drops so should the Mint’s prices for it.