Todays Coins To Invest In For 20-30 Yrs Down The Road

You should check that assumption. the ones that go up by the greatest percentage actually tend to be the keys in VF - AU.

NGC's new price guide is good for such comparisons.. Unfortunately it only goes back five years. But if you look at something like the 09 SVDB over the past 5 years the MS-66 has increased 25% but has been flat for the past three years. MS-65 the same but flat for last two years. MS-63 is up 50%, down from 55% last year. But in VF it's up 70%.

The 14 D is a little different. MS-66 is up 12% but has been flat for 4.5 years. MS-63 actually has the best return at 65% and has only ben flat for the last year. AU-55 is 30% flat for two year. XF is actually pretty good up 55% but down from 60% over the past year. VF has been somewhat disappointing. It went up to a 60% increase from 2005 to Nov 2008 but over the past two years has dropped badly and is now up only 15% for the five year period. Which is still better than the MS-66.



When the first spouse series began it was considered to be a very low mintage coin as well, only 20,000 unc and 20,000 proofs and every one jumped on board. Today those are the HIGH mintages of the series. Today they are only selling a few thousand of each and there doesn't seem to be any interest in them except among a few diehards. Could the same happen to the hockey pucks? Maybe.



Most likely the mintage is low because of the short time period they have to make them. You can't strike these three inch behemoths at high speed like they do regular coins. I would expect they have to do several strikes per coin and I doubt they can make more then a few coins per minute at best. (The three inch medals they make take about five or six strikes and have to be annealed between strikes, but they are much higher relief.) 30,000 coins per design is 150,000 coins with only about 30 days to make them on a single die pair press. Next year they have the whole year and the mintage limit will probably be MUCH higher.

I don't think I can bring myself to consider a 5oz piece of silver to be a coin, rather then a commemorative coaster.

Chinese coins.

Next 20-30 years for investment purposes? The last coin I would pursue is a US coin. I say this as a proud resident and citizen. Our coin collecting population is unemployed, bankrupt and unable to make ends meet, and our children, growing up in a shrinking service economy that does not manufacture things, struggles to appreciate tangible collectibles. Serious US numismatists will be dead or dying in 30 years time, and coins of numismatic value will see their inflation-corrected value crash hard as wealthy foreigners take a fancy to Indian or Chinese numismatic charms and history while Liberty, Abe and Washington visages on our coins become synonymous with "dying empire."

I collect US coins out of passion, fully expecting them to lose considerable value over my lifetime. Sorry to be so bleak but I think it is important, when investing, to not be colored by passion or pride.

I keep thinking about that Twilight Zone episode where those guys freeze their bodies and come out 100 years later assuming their gold would be worth something, and they find out gold is not worth anything 100 years later. Remember that episode?

I would and do invest in silver us mint coins as close to spot silver as one can get, you have two hedges here, silver and numismatic and the down side is just silver going south.. Stay away from 1965 to present proof silver coins as they can look similar to the clad. unless bought in unopened sets but then you are moving away from your silver spot...Direct from a coin show or shop has been my best luck...

Yes the thread was " todays coins " for 20-30 yrs down the road

The coins as of recent 09-10 still avail from the mint.

Silver proofs,proofs,business strikes,special coins,limted coins

Things that can be had today on the cheap that would be worth alot in the future.
By alot I dont mean millions. But say a 10-20$ set might be worth 40$ or so , in the near future

I am with Jbcuk on future coin production. I believe that most financial transactions will one day be all electronic thus eliminating the need for carrying and using coin or paper money. There will be no need for the mint to strike coinage and our hobby will evolve drastically. All of a sudden there will be a finite amount of coins out there to collect, save and invest in. Values will skyrocket due to the increased demand for the finite coins and there will be a renewed interest in coin collecting in general. Many will get into the hobby for nostalgic reasons while others will see valuable investment opportunities. I don't think that much of this will happen in my lifetime, but over the next 50 to 75 years will be times of changes in life as we know it for better or worse!