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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pocket Change, post: 441906, member: 8012&quot;]Someone said it - don&#039;t invest in coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;re seeing a lot of examples - the &quot;stars&quot; of the sleeper series.&nbsp; Yawn.</p><p><br /></p><p>Treashunt uses 2002 as the basis of comparison.&nbsp; Silver averaged just a little over $4.50/oz that year.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you had just gone out and bought junk silver in 2002 and resold when it was $18/oz, you would have done much better than almost all of the &quot;sleepers&quot; that are listed here.&nbsp; In addition, you can sell silver ANY time - it&#039;s liquid.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what percentage of those sleeper&#039;s increase in price is due to the four-fold increase in price of silver?&nbsp; Remove the &quot;silver factor&quot; and you would have been better off with a bank CD.&nbsp; Profit is the motivation here, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>And how many of the sleepers were sleeping, are sleeping and will continue to sleep?</p><p><br /></p><p>I would just hate if beginning collectors read this thread and rather than get a varied and rich collection of coins, end up with rolls of the same coin and glue their noses to the gray sheets every month to see how they&#039;re doing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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