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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skyman, post: 2391918, member: 28299&quot;]ALL collectibles go in cycles, and sometimes a previously collected field can totally drop out of favor due to changes in the collecting population.&nbsp; Demand is what makes a market.&nbsp; There might only be 1 of a given item, but if no one is interested in it, it won&#039;t sell.&nbsp; There are PLENTY of coin series that are &quot;undervalued&quot; given relative rarity.&nbsp; However, many of these coin series have NEVER had a large collecting base.&nbsp; Given that is the case, the odds are that they never will.</p><p><br /></p><p>I first started in coins back in the late 1980&#039;s as a (relatively small) financial diversification move.&nbsp; Unbeknownst to me it was a bubble in the making, due to the recent introduction of TPG slabs.&nbsp; I made a lot of (paper) money in a year or so, and then had my head handed to me on a platter.&nbsp; In many series prices have STILL not gotten back to where they were at their height in the late 1980&#039;s (although gradeflation has caused many of the coins graded back then to be cracked out and regraded a point or two higher).&nbsp; In the early 1990&#039;s I sold many of the coins that I had bought.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>During this process, I found that coins were attractive little suckers in and of themselves and transitioned into becoming a collector, not an investor.&nbsp; Since then I have done better financially on coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buy what you like, with DISPOSABLE income, and enjoy it.&nbsp; That is your true Return on Investment.&nbsp; If it goes up in value, so much the better.&nbsp; If not, c&#039;est la vie.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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