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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2441992, member: 71234&quot;]The reason the original packaging on any collectable retains or increases value is that usually it was either on a very small production, and therefore rare, or it was usually thrown away, like the boxes of children&#039;s toys, and so has become rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are so many originally wrapped modern issues that unless 99% of the owners decide to just keep the coins, those original packeges will be the norm rather than the rare exception, therefore they will add nothing at all to the value.</p><p><br /></p><p>The moment you make the package part of the item, the package counts as nothing special, and those certificates of authenticity are a laugh now and will be forever, since no CoA is worth the paper it&#039;s printed on. It&#039;s even easier to fake CoAs then it is to fake the coins or whatever. Plus their mere existance shows that the item was made for collectors, and in the antique trade the one thing that is not, in the longer term, collectable is &#039;made for collectors&#039; stuff.&nbsp; Just look at collector&#039;s plates. Or Beanie Babies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have just noticed this is a revived zombie thread but the points made remain relevant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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