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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scyther, post: 1676222, member: 42170&quot;]I hate to say it, but I believe you&#039;re right.&nbsp; We&#039;re all screwed.&nbsp; Or rather, you are.&nbsp; Or at least the ones who care about how much their coins are worth and aren&#039;t just doing it for fun.&nbsp; I, thankfully, have not invested in numismatic coins.&nbsp; And now I never will.&nbsp; Or at least not until the market has bottomed, if that ever happens.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s another factor here that is deadly for future coin prices: the impending cashless society that will befall us.&nbsp; Many (I would think most) people start coin collecting by looking through pocket change and collecting the years and mint marks.&nbsp; From there they move on to rare/valuable/&quot;obsolete&quot; coins that they can&#039;t find in circulation.&nbsp; No pocket change=no new coin collectors!&nbsp; Obviously that&#039;s an exaggeration, but I think I make my point.&nbsp; It&#039;s not just the lack of old white men we have to fear... it&#039;s the lack of ANYONE, of any race or gender, who has even seen a coin!&nbsp; The rarest coins will always have value, but everything else is doomed.&nbsp; What is expensive will be cheap in the future.&nbsp; What is cheap now will be bullion in the future.&nbsp; I kid you not- you will see wheat pennies melted down for their copper value because NO ONE CARES what a wheat penny is.&nbsp; Your collections are going straight into the furnace when you die.&nbsp; And your kids aren&#039;t getting much for them.&nbsp; Metal prices will be down too!&nbsp; Copper and silver are going to crash dramatically.&nbsp; Gold will languish in a death spiral until it is finally crushed under the weight of the ocean, if you catch my drift.&nbsp; Platinum is going to be mined in asteroids and cars will no longer require it.&nbsp; PMs, to the moon!&nbsp; No!&nbsp; PMs, FROM the moon<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do truly wish numismatic coins were a good investment, but they&#039;re not.&nbsp; I&#039;ll just hold my money for now and buy a complete lincoln set for $100 (or the inflation adjusted equivalent thereof) in a couple decades.&nbsp; That is, if there&#039;s anyone left in the business of ruling out counterfeits, which will have long since flooded the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my 2 cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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