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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1965506, member: 75105&quot;]Still alive. I don&#039;t have a collection any more, I sold it in it&#039;s entirety.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m moving in a few months and wanted to keep the amount of stuff I&#039;m moving to a minimum, taking a train actually.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am going to college next fall, and while I have not decided what exactly I am going to college for, I am starting my own business, so I&#039;ve been slowly socking away money in savings and investments for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I do like to be diversified. I&#039;m currently holding several exchange traded funds, which in turn hold a basket of over 10 companies each.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve looked a bit into alternative investments. I might offend people when I say this, but I don&#039;t see precious metals as a solid investment.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, while going through my collection, I found a 1992 Red book.</p><p><br /></p><p>While it&#039;s not a good idea to base future performance off past performance, I decided to look into numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to fair market values, a 1806 large cent is currently worth $1,770 in XF-40.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at the red book, it&#039;s price in 1992 was $1,000. </p><p><br /></p><p>Over 22 years, this is a gain of $770.</p><p><br /></p><p>If we put $1000 into a stock yielding 2%, and as long as the price did not chance, it would be $1546 today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Going to a different category...a 1922 no D cent is worth $760 in F-12, in 1992, it was $225, a gain of over $500.</p><p><br /></p><p>If we put $225 in a 2% stock in 1992, it would be worth $347 today.</p><p><br /></p><p>So far it appears that coins have outperformed investments, if we don&#039;t look into market fluctuations of the stock market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some more coins...</p><p><br /></p><p>1916 Standing Liberty Quarter $1,500 in 1992, today $6,720 (wow!)</p><p><br /></p><p>1877 cent, $900 in EF-40 in 1992, today $2,280.</p><p><br /></p><p>1916-D dime, $900 in F-12 in 1992, today $2,460.</p><p><br /></p><p>1855 Seated Dollar, $975 in F-12 in 1992, today $1,530 (not so great)</p><p><br /></p><p>So while not all coins had good returns, like the &#039;55 seated dollar, others have gone up in price dramatically. </p><p><br /></p><p>Same can be said for stocks.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, stocks can become worthless, and while it&#039;s not impossible, it&#039;s possible we could see another crash, whereas there hasn&#039;t been a crash of us coin prices (excluding the silver price fluctuation of the early 80s)</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing too...things can happen to rare coins, making them even rarer, collections can get destroyed, either by natural disaster, fire, or people improperly cleaning them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am considering putting 10-20 percent into rare coins, but had a few questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Is there any type of coin that will increase in value? I know nobody has a crystal ball, but wondering what kind of &quot;sleepers&quot; there are.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. If one wanted to invest in rare coins, would one stick to US, or having a few rare world coins a good idea?</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said before, I don&#039;t want to put all my eggs in one basket, so I&#039;m not gonna sell off my portfolio and invest in rare coins, but diversification is always great.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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