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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3938885, member: 26302"]Yeah, the lack of busy coin shops is irrelevant to me due to the rise of online sales. You are not seeing these like you did in the coin shops of yore, but they are out there. IDK man, to me, ancient coins are hotter than they have ever been in the US. World coins are a little better, and paper money is simply on fire compared to what it was when I started in the late 70's and the "rag pickers" were in a dark corner of the shows. I think the internet makes it easy to collect other than US coins, and this is leading to slowdown of US coins. US coins are too highly priced versus rarity, too commoditized, and too subject to manipulation of the slabbers. When I see the graphs of US coins being flat to down in terms of values, and then read industry veterans all proclaiming vast grade inflation, (David Bowers wrote how even circulated IHC are being vastly overgraded, cents that for decades grading a VG are being slabbed today as VFs), then it is clear as a bell to me. An entire generation evolved not learning to grade, so they have to rely on slabbers, yet slabbers keep lowering the bar and adding to the "supply" of coins by lowering grading standards. Of course this will lead to flat or lower prices, and this action will lower anyone's incentive to collect.[/QUOTE]