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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 11721706, member: 73489&quot;]I think there are lots of differences.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>In 1979-80, you still had the shocks of earlier in the decade playing out: </b> oil shocks....free-floating (falling !) currencies....inflation....etc.&nbsp; PM&#039;s skyrocketed 10-fold during the decade and then DOUBLED again in 6 months into the bubble peak of early-1980.&nbsp; Everything got dragged up with PM&#039;s.&nbsp; After the bubble burst, only commemoratives soared during the 1980&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Today, you are coming off a decade of falling prices as indicated by the PCGS 300 Index...</b>we &quot;burned off&quot; alot of the bubble excess in that time so alot of the &quot;fluff&quot; was out of the coins that were pricey from previous rises/bubbles....you also had a demographic imbalance with lots of older collectors selling and not being replaced by young buyers.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>As GDJMSP has noted, it looks like U.S. coins bottomed with the pandemic (see, PCGS 3000 Index). </b> Time will tell if it is the beginning of a new bull market or a very powerful countertrend rally.&nbsp; We know that with people at home...and with lots of stimulus and pandemic $$$...lots of stuff rose bigtime.&nbsp; The stuff that went up was the AFFORDABLE stuff:&nbsp; Morgan SDs under $500 and especially under $200....Small Denomination coins costing under $100....medium-grade currency like Large Denomination Bills ($500, $1,000, etc.).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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