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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1954821, member: 38849&quot;]Some of your questions may be answered by asking your alternative uses for capital; that&#039;s not quite the same as asking if you &quot;need&quot; money.&nbsp; The coins can always be sold at some price, and we are just now beginning to break out of a two year slump in the prices of precious metals.&nbsp; In general, I would not hesitate to sell off &quot;cheap&quot; coins, but if you sell high-priced items, and a year from now the money&#039;s spent and you wonder where it went, this will drag you down mentally for years to come.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the coin market is resilient enough to maintain itself through moderate inflation.&nbsp; If you have some other hobby that you are extremely knowledgeable about, and you find a once-in-a-lifetime buying opportunity in your specialty, then there&#039;s much more reason to sell coins.&nbsp; That&#039;s what I mean by alternative uses for capital.</p><p><br /></p><p>The final criteria would be interest rates.&nbsp; You sell coins, you put the money in the bank, it earns somewhere south of 2%, while real inflation substantially exceeds two percent.&nbsp; You hold the silver, and it only has to rise about 50 cents per ounce to make your 2%.&nbsp; Yes, it could revisit its lows, but you ask yourself, why are China (and Russia) buying enormous quantities of precious metals?&nbsp; What do they know (or think) that we don&#039;t?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They know the U.S. is bankrupt, and prefer gold in hand over paper dollars in a spreadsheet.&nbsp; Sorry, I have not quite answered the heart of your question, above, but let this be a springboard to supplement others&#039; numismatic viewpoints.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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