Why Is Coin Collecting The Best Hobby?

That Brett Favre rookie card means nothing to you.
that Brett Favre rookie card means nothing to you.
that Brett Favre rookie card means nothing to you.

Come on GO, its' nothing but a thing...ee!

Jim

Man I must be bored to tears.

I've got a load of comics and sports cards that will probably never again be worth anything, that's why I kept comparing them to coins. Creaton, you hit the nail right on the head. There are WAAAY too many card companies, and each one has about 17 different series for each year. Beckett magazine has about 5 pages that covers years 19 fifty something to 19 ninety something (40+ years), then about 50 pages for about 10 years of cards from 199?-present..Coins rule!

Most all my cards come from the years 1987-1993, so they are not all that great. I have some that are worth a few bucks, upwards to 20 but nothing great. I have more in quantity, then quality :)

Grace, I always told myself i'd never sell these. My son, whenever I have one, would kill me I'm sure :)

collecting things with intrinsic value such as coins and stamps is a sound investment as well as lots of fun!

This thread inspired me to blow off the dust of the totes I have full of sports cards. Wow, do I have some organizing to do, I should have never started. I'll let you know if I find anything worth a ton, doubt it tho :)

Presently I worry about our government ruining this hobby like they did with stamps. The massive amount of stupid stamps distroyed that hobby for everyone. Now they are starting that with coins. It makes them a lot of money in the short run but will stop people from collecting in the future when they see way, way to many coins to collect. For now the only advantage is what you collect today you can still deposit in a bank tomorrow and only loose the possible interest you would have if that money was there in the first place.
As noted the sporting card craze ended due to the massive production of those cards by everyone. My kid too had boxes and boxes of them. He used to get them in 5,000 card boxes for $5. That really distroyed that hobby. Then we all remember Beanie Babies. Now selling for about $1 or $2 each. Same thing. Market flooded. Hot Wheel cars were selling for a lot not long ago but the market got flooded with to many so that ended.
Our government is in the process of tons of commemoratives, State Quarters and now numerous baby dollars no one wants. At this rate there soon will be less and less interest for new collectors seeing way to many to even start or try to start collecting. Another great hobby distroyed. However, there is always the bank to get rid of them.
Remember the Bicentennial Quarters. My freind had thousands and I had hundreds. No one wants them so they all went to the bank. At a coin show one dealer commically said I'll give you $0.24 each for them.

You give a girl some coin they've never seen before in a key chain for a value of $2 and they will go nuts ;)