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<p>[QUOTE="john59, post: 2113176, member: 73760"]First, stamp collecting hasn't gone into oblivion and yes in my opinion, it will last a lifetime. The stamp market is doing very good now. As for baseball cards, I can't really comment too much because I don't follow or collect them. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for your saying that coins will be worthless, that is completely ridiculous. That's a doomsday scenario. Hey, I don't see anything wrong with dealers paying bums to get coins. They probably didn't have any kids to get on the line for them. I blame the collectors for paying too high of a price for the modern stuff. And yes, the modern stuff has a big chance to lose value but not to an extent that will destroy the market. Just go back and look at the history of the pricing of coins. Yes, you can track them for 100 years or more. Ups and downs, but at the end always a gain on most of them. The collecting world has changed with the modern era. Now every coin can be a MS-70. The game has changed a lot, and will change again and again. Worthless? No. Challenge? Yes. Doomsday, don't think so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="john59, post: 2113176, member: 73760"]First, stamp collecting hasn't gone into oblivion and yes in my opinion, it will last a lifetime. The stamp market is doing very good now. As for baseball cards, I can't really comment too much because I don't follow or collect them. As for your saying that coins will be worthless, that is completely ridiculous. That's a doomsday scenario. Hey, I don't see anything wrong with dealers paying bums to get coins. They probably didn't have any kids to get on the line for them. I blame the collectors for paying too high of a price for the modern stuff. And yes, the modern stuff has a big chance to lose value but not to an extent that will destroy the market. Just go back and look at the history of the pricing of coins. Yes, you can track them for 100 years or more. Ups and downs, but at the end always a gain on most of them. The collecting world has changed with the modern era. Now every coin can be a MS-70. The game has changed a lot, and will change again and again. Worthless? No. Challenge? Yes. Doomsday, don't think so.[/QUOTE]
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