I received my copy of this advisory yesterday. It has its annual crystal ball survey, with John Albanese, Billy Paul, Laura Sperber, Scott Travers, Doug Winter, and Dave Wnuck with each of their unique perspectives. If anyone has a question of their perspectives on the current coin market, I would be glad to paraphrase their comments, I know there are copyrights on this newsletter. Maurice Rosen covers the coin market both from the perspective of collecting and investing, things to buy things to liquidate, coins to avoid. In this newsletter there are ten specific questions on trends in the coin market, variations in the grading services, government regulation of the coin market, and projections on what to expect in 2012. Glad to see Dave Wnuck's addition to the panel of advisors here. His site "Coin Rarities online" is very well done with up to date road reports, good humor and excellent graphics.
I always get a kick out of those "advisories". That group all by itself can pretty much make the market on a specific series or small group of series. So their advisories are sort of like what they plan to do next year.
Goldline is featured prominently on an example of why investors may be skittish in buying coins, what with the government investigation of them, because of their heavy advertising on Fox News, advanced, among others, by former congressman Wiener who was himself the target of vehement animosity with the texting scandal. The fact is that no one knows whether a given coin is a winner, all other things being equal. All they can say is that if we have an economic recovery, many collectible coins will do well, but if the economy tanks and gold goes to $3000 an ounce, "investment" coins will not be very attractive in the usual categories.
