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<p>[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 5216493, member: 42034"]<i>"Coin dealers are speculating that the new buyers aren't interested in numismatics, at all, and they may sell off that portion of the business. There's no way to know at this time, but clearly the future for CLCT (Collectors' Universe) is being measured in cards, not coins."</i></p><p><br /></p><p>During the covid the certification of baseball cards surpassed that of coins. According to an article on the sale</p><p><i> "Coin collecting will always be somewhat of a niche industry. We don't have dedicated media channels like ESPN with 24-hour coverage peripheral to our hobby. Sports and the personalities around them are a huge part of 21st century culture. Coins are not."</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>"World Series TV ratings 32% down on previous low"</b></p><p>Contravening that you also have trends that both the MLB (Major League Baseball) and the NFL (Feetball) are doing excessively poorly. I don't see how interest in cards will continue when interest in the underlying sports in dying out?</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins retain a more historical link to people, countries, and historical events so even as small change fades from useage, coins will remain an important collectable. It also may be that they simply pushed the price up so as to sell the company and what happens to this business in 5 or 10 years is simply not gemaine to this sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>One article link:</p><p><a href="https://www.greysheet.com/news/story/parent-company-of-pcgs-to-sell-for-700-million" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.greysheet.com/news/story/parent-company-of-pcgs-to-sell-for-700-million" rel="nofollow">https://www.greysheet.com/news/story/parent-company-of-pcgs-to-sell-for-700-million</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 5216493, member: 42034"][I]"Coin dealers are speculating that the new buyers aren't interested in numismatics, at all, and they may sell off that portion of the business. There's no way to know at this time, but clearly the future for CLCT (Collectors' Universe) is being measured in cards, not coins."[/I] During the covid the certification of baseball cards surpassed that of coins. According to an article on the sale [I] "Coin collecting will always be somewhat of a niche industry. We don't have dedicated media channels like ESPN with 24-hour coverage peripheral to our hobby. Sports and the personalities around them are a huge part of 21st century culture. Coins are not."[/I] [B]"World Series TV ratings 32% down on previous low"[/B] Contravening that you also have trends that both the MLB (Major League Baseball) and the NFL (Feetball) are doing excessively poorly. I don't see how interest in cards will continue when interest in the underlying sports in dying out? Coins retain a more historical link to people, countries, and historical events so even as small change fades from useage, coins will remain an important collectable. It also may be that they simply pushed the price up so as to sell the company and what happens to this business in 5 or 10 years is simply not gemaine to this sale. One article link: [URL]https://www.greysheet.com/news/story/parent-company-of-pcgs-to-sell-for-700-million[/URL][/QUOTE]
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