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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2542870, member: 76194&quot;]Slabbing did one thing, it massively inflated US coin prices and helped make collecting US coins the most expensive field within numismatics. It always amazes me that I can easily find 1000 or 2000 year old coins at a fraction of the price many modern slabbed coins go for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Couple that with the bad sales policies at the mint, which means the little guys get further fleeced by big dealers, and the recent surge of investors into the hobby, whom are here to trade coins like stocks and bonds...and the writing is on the wall. Many numismatists are being ran out of the hobby entirely, or are moving to non-US coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The US coin market is going to be in for a huge shock in 10-15 years as more baby-boomers die and younger collectors fail to show up or drop out altogether thanks to some of the things I mentioned above. Look at what happened to stamp collecting for an example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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