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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 656543, member: 3011&quot;]I feel you can make money, but not through &quot;normal&quot; collecting methods.&nbsp; If you pay full price for what is most desirable, whether it is toned coins or key dates, you probably have a 50/50 chance of ever recovering your original investment no matter how nice the collection turns out.&nbsp; The best chance you have, in my opinion, is to buy something that is selling low in relation to its intrinsic value or potential value, then holding on.&nbsp; For example, two areas I identified for myself back around 2003 when I got back into collecting was American Silver Eagles and modern commemorative gold coins from the 1980s.&nbsp; Neither were particularly popular at the time and I acquired most of the ASEs around $5-8 and the commems around $125-150.&nbsp; I think they were good deals then, and probably still are.&nbsp; This was due more to my research on silver and gold prices than numismatic value, although I continue to believe that the year the US Mint stops making ASEs, the series will almost instantly acquire significant numismatic premiums over the bullion value.&nbsp; They are beautiful coins that are completely taken for granted and might be melted by the millions in the next big rise in silver prices.&nbsp; We&#039;ll see.&nbsp; So the trick is to purchase items that are high quality, not widely appreciated, and that have a good chance of gaining popularity in the future.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t easy, but I think it&#039;s possible if you approach it with the right mindset and with enough knowledge not to get ripped off purchasing overgraded/overpriced coins.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure there are things out there right now that will have significantly higher prices in the future; but it&#039;s difficult now because many high quality examples of almost everything the Mint turns out are being saved by many collectors.&nbsp; Most seem overpriced to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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