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<p>[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 1539544, member: 15199"]A factor that has to be considered, although there is no clear factual backing, is the number of coin collectors in the future. Some dealers say the number is increasing and they are selling more $1000+ than ever before, but they do not seem to separate the god bullion coins from those. Bowers says the average age of a coin collector is between 55 and 65 in his estimate. Stamp collecting faced a similar problem years before coins, and the number of stamp collectors has decreased. Coin and stamp forums have helped encourage new collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the number of collectors decrease significantly in the future, the demand for coins will decrease also. As the perfection of counterfeits becomes better than the detection, less will be interested. Perhaps the collection of sealed "slabs" of DNA will become the collectible, with TPG certification that the sample came Einstein's brain ( for example), and will outsell the 1909SVDB <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The future is fickle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="desertgem, post: 1539544, member: 15199"]A factor that has to be considered, although there is no clear factual backing, is the number of coin collectors in the future. Some dealers say the number is increasing and they are selling more $1000+ than ever before, but they do not seem to separate the god bullion coins from those. Bowers says the average age of a coin collector is between 55 and 65 in his estimate. Stamp collecting faced a similar problem years before coins, and the number of stamp collectors has decreased. Coin and stamp forums have helped encourage new collectors. If the number of collectors decrease significantly in the future, the demand for coins will decrease also. As the perfection of counterfeits becomes better than the detection, less will be interested. Perhaps the collection of sealed "slabs" of DNA will become the collectible, with TPG certification that the sample came Einstein's brain ( for example), and will outsell the 1909SVDB :) The future is fickle.[/QUOTE]
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