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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2360016, member: 76863&quot;]As Dave touched on saying that the economy played no role would simply not be true.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I will expand on it further, by 1985 what had the collecting world just been through?&nbsp; The massive silver run up by the Hunt Brothers without question played a large role.&nbsp; I cannot recall the exact dates of when even common Morgans were fetching insane prices but if it was early 80s that absolutely played a role as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Simply put a lot of collectors and shops especially lost a ton of money with the collapse of silver and only well funded ones could survive that type of hit, smaller shops had no chance if they had a substantial amount of silver on hand.&nbsp; It may have taken a few years to go under completely, but trying to dig out of that kind of hole is a very difficult proosition for a mid sized shop in a town that isn&#039;t exactly Beverly Hills.&nbsp; Not a knock on Reading, but it is hardly the barometer of a nation wide market. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The internet would disagree with you. You wouldn&#039;t be seeing the sales numbers on EBay, Great Collections, David Lawrence Auctions, Heritage ect and even many shows are still successful if the hobby was a corpse.&nbsp; The generation before you was likely saying the same things about how it was going to die with them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The values certainly can hold today. The internet has opened up every buyer to just about the entire inventory available to find what they want or like.&nbsp; It has also opened up a world wide market that 40 years ago very few people would have been partaking in.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That perception ended a while for things people thought were rare but were actually quite common.&nbsp; The internet has brought more transparency about rarities than has ever existed before.&nbsp; You have population reports from TPGs and numerous sales venues to see how often things come for sale and a general idea on how many have been graded and in what grades.&nbsp; It turns out that 16-D Merc or the 1909 S VDB aren&#039;t actually rare at all while some much cheaper Seated material could take you years to find a fitting one.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We don&#039;t have to guess or trust a someone trying to sell us something for rarities anymore, you can see everything with your own eyes and a few minutes online. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They won&#039;t implode but most will exit or switch focus barring another run up anytime in that time frame.&nbsp; I agree investing in bullion is not a good use of funds, but if it makes them happy and they can afford it more power to them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>With that said if you ever spend sometime poking around around bullion sites or bullion forums, you will see a decent number of them end up crossing over to the numismatic side due to the interest in coins their silver stacking starts.&nbsp; You would be surprised how many collectors started off that way in the last 7 years or so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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