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Message:: [QUOTE="Long Beard, post: 4143198, member: 108674"]I have been collecting steadily since 1974 and not once in that time thought of selling out. My personal thoughts on the subject? Ask yourself why you chose to collect coins in the first place. Also, which series. Most of those you refer to I would surmise collect for the future value, retirement. Which is not a bad thing, per say, if chosen properly. To explain this one must understand that the market continually shifts across all series from one to another, sometimes with dramatic swings in value reflective of the change. The one constant, however, which will never change are the key date, rare and unique coinage. Also, certain series such as the cent and Morgan Dollar tend to see little price variation overall due to extreme decades long popularity. That's to say these series as a whole, not the keys or highest graded of them. In defense of your post topic, it gets frustrating at times as the market is driven higher and higher by fancy plastic and special stickers. What ever happened to the idea of a coin being either MS65 or not? No MS65+, no fourth party beans. Going one step further, why is a person such as myself, who collects raw or buys slabbed for authenticity only to crack them out looked upon like a leper?[/QUOTE]