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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 2186583, member: 15062&quot;]Would you sell a coin at a loss or hold on to it in the hopes of someday making a profit?</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say in 1964 you bought a UNC 1950-D Jefferson Nickel for $25.&nbsp; You now want to sell it but the prices for the example are in the $50 range while your $25 buy price is now nearly $200.&nbsp; So, if you sell at today&#039;s price you lose $175 but if you hold out there&#039;s little likelihood of the price advancing beyond inflation. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is an extreme example and the only sensible thing to do is to dump it, take the loss and move on.&nbsp; There are however many other examples not so clear cut so the question remains, sell at a loss just to clear inventory, or hold out for possible future recovery.</p><p><br /></p><p>This also applies to the PM market.&nbsp; You may have bought silver at $30-40 per ounce in 1980 and you&#039;ll never recover that &quot;investment&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not all coins advance, and even those that do don&#039;t always go beyond inflation rates, so $100 spent ten years ago is $121 today.</p><p><br /></p><p>So. what to do?</p><p><br /></p><p>rates from <a href="http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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