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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 17293, member: 669&quot;]Depends on what you mean by &quot;long term&quot;.&nbsp; If you mean &quot;with a reasonable expectation of substantial resale value increase over the years&quot; the answer would be very different than if you mean &quot;with a liklihood of giving me continuing enjoyment from looking at and possessing them over a period of many years&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting coins is my hobby - investing my assets is the work I do to support my family since retiring from a &quot;real job&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t believe in mixing the two, so I have never spent a solitary cent on coins that I could not have simply thrown away without impacting my standard of living, my long term expectations for my standard of living, or my Beautiful Bride&#039;s standard of living if I go first.&nbsp; My kids are doing well, and I&#039;m not worried about the size of their inheritance.&nbsp; Therefore I am free to &quot;buy&quot; any coin that I expect to enjoy having, without considering whether I am &quot;investing&quot; wisely.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have friends who consider their coin collection as part of their investment portfolio.&nbsp; They make different choices than I would.&nbsp; I don&#039;t consider my way, or theirs, to be &quot;better&quot; in an abstract sense.&nbsp; Mine is &quot;better&quot; for a person of my temperament and means, theirs is &quot;better&quot; for folks of their temperament and means.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a very wise person once said, &quot;If everybody liked the same thing, everyone would want <i>my</i> wife.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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