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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3572106, member: 76194&quot;]Apparently this might be the time to buy an antique coin cabinet. I was checking and the antiques market is basically in free fall. Millennials, who are highly mobile and prefer simplicity, don&#039;t want 19th or 18th century furniture, and the baby boomer collectors are dying... flooding the antique market.</p><p><br /></p><p>It goes to show you that just because something is going up in price, doesn&#039;t mean it will be very collectible and valuable indefinitely. Maybe in 20 or 30 years our own hobby could be 1/3 the size it is now and the prices could end up reflecting that. Look at what&#039;s happened to some sub-categories of the US coin collectors market already. For example,&nbsp; antique US commemorative coins have plummeted in value by as much as 2/3 over the last decade. Heck, look at what happened to US stamps. These days it&#039;s cheaper to buy unused 1950s through 1980s u.s. stamps in bulk than buying brand new stamps are the post office, which is why some people I know use old stamps to mail stuff rather than modern stamps.&nbsp; Except for some of the rarer stamps, the stamp collector market has collapsed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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