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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;joecoincollect, post: 2509574, member: 71338&quot;]I see your point. I guess I haven&#039;t been collecting long enough, but my impression is that coins are more solid collectibles and performers in the long run. Since the 1850s or so, when coin collecting really took off, it seems to have retained enough of a collector base to be around still today and to a respectable extent. The other collectibles have no future in my opinion, and I mean no chance of ever recovering a semblance of their former glory. Beanie babies are obvious, but how about sports cards? Those seemed quite popular 20-30 years ago, yet now they fill flea markets booths and don&#039;t get sold. Cards made in the 1980s and up (I guess the decades before is arguable, I don&#039;t know) might as well be recycled in a dumpster. Comic books experienced their heyday as well in my opinion, at least Bronze Age ones and up. I&#039;ve heard the talk of gloom about coins and diminishing interest as the collector base gets older. Even if more countries stop minting coins, we got plenty of examples to collect all the way back to ancient times. Furthermore, precious and even base metals have been collected and valued for millennia, so that fares well for the hobby too. Numismatics is the king of all hobbies of course![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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