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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 110342, member: 3011&quot;]Speedy covered the topic in his usual thorough and professional manner.&nbsp; I&#039;ll just add the following.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think coins are a great investment, but you have to understand what type of investment they are.&nbsp; Coins are like buying a foreign currency, but one that is fairly inflation-proof and not necessarily tied to the US dollar.&nbsp; So they probably won&#039;t perform as well as the stock market because there is no reinvestment of retained earnings, but should do as well or better than a sound currency, like the Swiss franc used to be or the Deutchmark before the wall came down.&nbsp; This is particularly true for a coin like the ASE.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to make money, there are two basic ways.&nbsp; First, become very very very expert in the hobby and use the knowledge to buy things such as key date coins and the like at reasonable prices for the grade.&nbsp; Second, do what you are doing by collecting something relatively simple like ASEs at prices close to the bullion value and hope that silver goes up in price.&nbsp; Some people who have studied silver believe this is probable because of production shortages.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t expect either method to be profitable quickly, or a sure thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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