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<p>[QUOTE="ColinG, post: 168165, member: 6625"]I would invest in high-grade early 20th cen. Chinese silver coins. The market for Chinese coins is truly undervalued but it's changing fast. Every dealer I know says Chinese [and Hong Kong] coins keep going up and up. As China's economy is growing at about 9% a year and the population is about 1.3 billion the formerly poor Chinese are quickly becoming middle-class. And you have to be middle-class to be able to collect coins - poor farmers can't. China now has a middle class of over 100 million and in 10 years it will be double or triple that. The Chinese art market has gone crazy too. </p><p><br /></p><p>India will be next. It's very early in the growth stage but it has the potential to equal China. </p><p><br /></p><p>Whereas the US market is quite mature. It's impossible for it to grow at any rate other than a rate equal to the growth in population. In fact I believe coin collecting is in slow decline in the US as more and more alternatives to coins [PC games, the internet, etc] influence the potential young collector.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ColinG, post: 168165, member: 6625"]I would invest in high-grade early 20th cen. Chinese silver coins. The market for Chinese coins is truly undervalued but it's changing fast. Every dealer I know says Chinese [and Hong Kong] coins keep going up and up. As China's economy is growing at about 9% a year and the population is about 1.3 billion the formerly poor Chinese are quickly becoming middle-class. And you have to be middle-class to be able to collect coins - poor farmers can't. China now has a middle class of over 100 million and in 10 years it will be double or triple that. The Chinese art market has gone crazy too. India will be next. It's very early in the growth stage but it has the potential to equal China. Whereas the US market is quite mature. It's impossible for it to grow at any rate other than a rate equal to the growth in population. In fact I believe coin collecting is in slow decline in the US as more and more alternatives to coins [PC games, the internet, etc] influence the potential young collector.[/QUOTE]
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