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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 517122, member: 13650&quot;]David Bowers says otherwise.&nbsp; Read the first few chapters of The Expert&#039;s Guide to Collecting &amp; Investing In Rare Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It&#039;s just like any other investment.&nbsp; There&#039;s a gamble for success or failure.&nbsp; I just don&#039;t agree with blanket statements like that.&nbsp; There&#039;s plenty of evidence.&nbsp;&nbsp; As I&#039;ve said in the past, there&#039;s a lot of people who could have easily made a fortune investing in coins that have lost it in the stock market.&nbsp;&nbsp; It all depends on where your money was and for how long.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Lets face it.&nbsp; One example. People were buying shares of GM stock at 82.00 as recently as Jan. 2000.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now they&#039;re worth 2.84.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The same people could have played stupid and dumped all of their money into basic ASE&#039;s at around 6 bucks a piece and at least be sitting there with double the value today.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; A guy I work with lost 50% in the stock market on one batch of investments since the 70s on advice from his brokers.&nbsp;&nbsp; He could have bought just about any coins and at least beat inflation, up to doubling or tripling his money or more, since then.&nbsp; But, I&#039;m sure people would have told him he was foolish for buying coins then too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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