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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Virginian, post: 5140729, member: 27579&quot;]I find this post confusing.&nbsp; In one place, you talk about whether prices have &quot;<b><u>held up</u></b>.&quot;&nbsp; In another, you talk about &quot;prices <b><u>to go up</u></b> long term.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Holding up, and going up (increasing) are two very different things.</p><p><br /></p><p>You mentioned the 1995-W ASE.&nbsp; At least in MS69, 1995-W prices have not gone up in MANY years.&nbsp; Typically, they sell for about $3K plus or minus - and have for many years (more than a decade).&nbsp; So yes, they have held up, and no the pprices have not gone up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, the current going rate for a 2019-S Enhanced Reverse Proof ASE in MS70 is about $1900 plus or minus.&nbsp; IMO, that is &quot;holding up.&quot;&nbsp; YMMV.&nbsp; How is that any different than the way prices for the 1995-W have behaved for years?</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to collect 1909-S VDB cents, and their prices &quot;in the real world&quot; have hardly moved in two decades.&nbsp; So I think that the prices of at least some famous coins which are well more than 100 years old have not fared any better than &quot;modern releases&quot; in terms of &quot;going up&quot; - at least in this century.&nbsp; But maybe 1909 is still within the penumbra of what you consider a modern release, in which case I guess I would be curious where that cuts off.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m quite sure you could find some older coins whose values have gone up quite a bit over the past 20 years.&nbsp; I&#039;m thinking those are exceptions to the rule, and I could probably find an equal number whose values have decreased.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;m not convinced that in general modern coin values do not hold up as well as older coins.&nbsp; But I willingly admit that I could be wrong about that, and I could easily be swayed to change that opinion by actual statistical data to the contrary. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I do not collect coins hoping &quot;<i>for prices to go up long term</i>.&quot;&nbsp; I have stocks and real estate for that.&nbsp; I collect coins because I like owning them, inspecting them, looking at them, fondling them . . .&nbsp; So long as their values do not nosedive precipitously, I&#039;m fine.&nbsp; Again, YMMV.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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