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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TychoCelchu, post: 1877702, member: 67798&quot;]There were a couple other historically strong collectibles that experienced a big bubble then massive fallout around the same time (though a few years later): Sportscards, and Comic Books.</p><p><br /></p><p>For sportscards: In the &#039;80s Topps/Donruss/Fleer massively overproduced (great for kids, bad for investors); but then they massively underproduced massively. (That is, they put out 10,000 specialty high-end packs at limited numbers, and 10,000 limited 1/100 inserts, etc.) They also priced kids straight out of the market. They changed the market to speculative investment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Comics: Also priced kids out of the range for &quot;limited editions&quot;, variant covers, glowing metallic covers, etc. Also were trying to feature contemporary product as an investment for the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sportscards still are priced out of range and enjoy a specialty niche with 1/1 cards, $400 five-card packs, etc. But from what I see it&#039;s mainly the investors trading/selling with each other. There isn&#039;t a market for it as an investor outside of that clique. Comic books have settled down a lot; though not sure about current demographics of buyers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, coins are different. Coins didn&#039;t change to limited editions or bling back then. But perhaps the common trend of the bubble for these collectibles were speculative investors. Not sure grading is such an apt correlation: Overstreet and other comic guides have illustrated grades decades before the first major grader, CGC came out in the late 90&#039;s. PSA for sportscards did start around 1990, but I was in minor collecting til around &#039;97 and just followed Beckett, and shops I dealt with had no PSA-graded cards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the best thing to come away with is that the strongest investments of all of these have been steady historical examples. Action Comics #1, Topps T-206, 1916-D Merc. So basically, it&#039;s wiser to invest in older stuff, which has great value even at non-perfecft or even lousy physical states. Spending an extra $80 on a 9.9 Andrew Luck vs. a 9.8, or a MS-70 Hawaii quarter vs a MS-69, is imo pretty dumb. Unless you&#039;re going to flip it real quick for a profit. But as something to hold on to? No way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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