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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2972520, member: 27832"]If you'd love to have them (there's a difference between wanting to get something and wanting to have it), and you can afford them, go for it! I'd expect them to retain value better than lesser coins. Having said that, though, that "rare coins value index" going back to 2000 isn't a good indicator for the coins you're looking at. It's based on the value of 87 coins; in their current listing, the total value is about $852K. That's almost $10000 per coin average, and over half that value comes from the first nine coins on the list, whose values range from $80K to $35K. Coins in that range appear to outperform the ones you're discussing. Also have a look at the PCGS3000 index, which is a lot broader, including both very high-end coins (six figures) and lower-end (two figures), but probably still weighted toward coins more expensive than the ones you listed. Here it is, starting from 1970: <img src="https://www.pcgs.com/PCGSMedia/graphs/indexallgraph.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> That giant bubble centered on 1989 reflected a big scheme to get collectible coins into IRA portfolios; the market crashed when the law changed. Ignoring that distortion, though, if you came into the market any time after the mid-1980s, this index wouldn't have treated you especially well. (As in "you wouldn't have kept ahead of inflation".)[/QUOTE]