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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 85885, member: 4373&quot;]I see a real danger in what people believe things should, or rather, *HAVE TO* rise over time. Give me a break, if I were a retard and see coins for the first time, I would just say they are a chunk of metals. When you get people trying to understand that it is the art of the coins that make it valuable, then you might get some apperication. Then when you try to add in mintmarks etc, when so much of the rest of the coin looks almost the same, I tell you, most people will go tired over it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess one of the classic examples are the half dollars where people just hoard them up thinking that they are rare since they are &quot;scarce&quot;, not to be seen in circulation. And when that happens, people think they have hit the jackpot investment. Not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seriously, I don&#039;t understand the point of this. To me, I can say my coins are worth a lot to me and could be worth absolutely ZERO to you. It can be possible. Suppose if I pull out overstriked coins to show around, a lot of people, if not most collectors wouldn&#039;t even touch overstriked coins because of their crudeness and ugliness. Of course you have your opinions and I have mine. </p><p><br /></p><p>The overall point is that one shouldn&#039;t be calculating everything in terms of investment. Hearing the word investment just makes me go really sick and just makes coin collecting worth more than it&#039;s trouble. Didn&#039;t the coin crash market taught people a good lesson of people who hoarded a lot of &quot;common&quot; coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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