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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;InfleXion, post: 2661562, member: 29012&quot;]A guy who runs a coin shop in my area once told me that if he had invested in bullion instead of rare coins he would have retired already. I figure rare coins don&#039;t have any reason to go up in price unless more people get interested in them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weight in gold and silver is what the dollar was conceived as when the USA was founded, before it later became paper certificates and then a digital currency in the computer age.</p><p><br /></p><p>So &#039;coins&#039; can mean two very different things without further clarification between collectible coins and bullion coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would definitely heed all advice given about not investing in collectible coins other than for hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bullion coins are not only a hobby for me though. They are part of my longterm retirement plan, because the value they have is based on their intrinsic properties which are immutable. I plan on saving it all for a very long time, so I will always have some real money. I&#039;m not trying to flip it to get more &#039;dollars&#039;. I like having it for what it is, which is an inflation hedge with no counter party risk. &#039;Dollars&#039; have the risk associated with a nation&#039;s ability to service its debt, and can be defaulted on or inflated away. Gold can&#039;t default, it&#039;s both ageless and timeless. That&#039;s why gold, the money of kings, and silver, the&nbsp; money of the people made the first dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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