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<p>[QUOTE="Irish2Ice, post: 1359540, member: 28761"]It's hard to time the stock-market. People will tell you that trying to time the market is the worst way to invest. It seems coins are the same way. </p><p><br /></p><p>There seems to have been a pretty intense bull market from 1984-1988, but those that bought heavily got the horns from 1989-1994! Kind of like what we always hear. Buy low--sell high and what ever you do, don't buy the top. BUT, the long term outlook when you eliminate 84-94 looks pretty steady. Are there better investments? Sure. But coins look better than buying the grand kids a swimming pool expecting it to increase in value 30 years from now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quartertapper, I totally agree. Collect what you enjoy. With any luck there will be a grand kid or great grand kid that enjoys it too. Otherwise, the heirs will take the collection to the closest dealer where they will be lucky to get 60% of what you paid for it to begin with![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Irish2Ice, post: 1359540, member: 28761"]It's hard to time the stock-market. People will tell you that trying to time the market is the worst way to invest. It seems coins are the same way. There seems to have been a pretty intense bull market from 1984-1988, but those that bought heavily got the horns from 1989-1994! Kind of like what we always hear. Buy low--sell high and what ever you do, don't buy the top. BUT, the long term outlook when you eliminate 84-94 looks pretty steady. Are there better investments? Sure. But coins look better than buying the grand kids a swimming pool expecting it to increase in value 30 years from now. Quartertapper, I totally agree. Collect what you enjoy. With any luck there will be a grand kid or great grand kid that enjoys it too. Otherwise, the heirs will take the collection to the closest dealer where they will be lucky to get 60% of what you paid for it to begin with![/QUOTE]
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