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<p>[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 718362, member: 4552"]The above is really more true than most will admit. Fads in any hobby come and go and I suspect that toned coins are just that. I might be wrong but just as error coins are big right now and couterfeit coin collecting is also on the rise, eventually just normal looking coins will be the final part of the hobby. With so many coins being difficult or even impossible to find, many have gone to other modes of this hobby such as toned coins, error coins, fakes, copies, etc. </p><p>And too with all the counterfeiting of rare coins the extensive amounts of creating toned coins artificially, those will also make that part of the hobby falter. </p><p>Regardless of the outcome of all these offshoots of coin collecting, most of this is as already stated many times, not a good place for investing for the future. </p><p>Remember the Beanie Babies, sports cards, Hot Wheel cars, USpostage stamps and all the others that have come and gone?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 718362, member: 4552"]The above is really more true than most will admit. Fads in any hobby come and go and I suspect that toned coins are just that. I might be wrong but just as error coins are big right now and couterfeit coin collecting is also on the rise, eventually just normal looking coins will be the final part of the hobby. With so many coins being difficult or even impossible to find, many have gone to other modes of this hobby such as toned coins, error coins, fakes, copies, etc. And too with all the counterfeiting of rare coins the extensive amounts of creating toned coins artificially, those will also make that part of the hobby falter. Regardless of the outcome of all these offshoots of coin collecting, most of this is as already stated many times, not a good place for investing for the future. Remember the Beanie Babies, sports cards, Hot Wheel cars, USpostage stamps and all the others that have come and gone?[/QUOTE]
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