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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 122010, member: 3011&quot;]I expected this to happen eventually, which is why I began collecting again a couple of years ago, particularly silver.&nbsp; The prices of gold and silver coins are up a lot at the places I usually shop.&nbsp; I&#039;ve only made on purchase this year during the first week of January.&nbsp; The only things I collect that are not silver or gold are a few Hard Times Tokens, Civil War Tokens, and Canadian Bank Tokens.&nbsp; The attraction there is to be able to obtain a 140+ year old coin with historical significance and great details for under $20 and under $10 for the Canadians.&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;ll go back to that for awhile.</p><p><br /></p><p>The possibility that is probably unexpected in the numismatic community is that silver and gold may be establishing themselves at a permanantly higher level.&nbsp; This has happened before in the 1970s when silver rose from $2 and gold rose from $42.&nbsp; It eventually soared and then crashed, but never returned to $2.&nbsp; It is possible that silver will never return to under $9-$10 or gold to under $500, and we&#039;ll all have to adjust our thinking or stop collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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