What Is A Good Venue To Invest In?

One of the goods and bads of many items to collect from the past are the fact that almost all of them are either painted or coated with some type of preservative. This is why so many still look almost new sometimes. Even furniture over hundreds of years old and used could still look decent. And this is one of our problems with coinage. Not painted, coated or protected in any way from just exposure to the elements. Of course there are those that are attempting to help us all by painting coins with all sorts of colors.
Most coins are just bare metal and I would guess the governments of Earth never consider continous usage for hundreds of years. Imagine if coins were not hoarded and made of something that did not wear out easily. Then what would happen to all those Mint workers? More layoffs and all because of our desire for coins to last?

my rule of thumb is simple and it works on any commodity. When you see tons of advertisements, esp on late night or daytime TV telling you "now is the time to buy, because just look at these returns!"

You ought to have sold it a month ago, so sell it now or be prepared to hang on to it for a while.

The problem is, you never know what fad today will be a collectible in 30 years.

Sports Cards, Comic books , you just never know.

That's why I like collecting coins , it's a hobby that's not going anywhere soon !

HMMMM. Oddly enough this is really not the first time I'm wrong. Might be the second or even the third.
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OR I'm wrong again.

Since I can't give an answer because I don't have any experience with gold rarities I won't. But, I will suggest looking at trends, maybe on ebay, considering what coins have sold at the highest premiums and which still are. That along with other factors can help guide your investment decision. Although I'm sure you have though that out already. So, if you have just get to business.

Good luck, with my knowledge (or lack thereof) I will stick to bullion as an "investment".

By the way, I just edited your other post to include the quote tags.

Carl cannot, but I can.

Actually, to be serious, if you see a problem, just use the 'Send note to staff' link that is in the lower right corner of every post.

Look for a historicaly stable series. Non-volatile... slow-steady gainers.

Well Years ago when gold standard was $32.00 oz. you were unable to purchase it except for jewelry. When the government removed the gold standard and private investors were allowed to purchase gold it became a trade able commodity. Gold is only supported by those that have gold. Its real value is undetermined. Because there are buyers and sellers it is a game that the rich play. Prices going up then down. The person who wants to increase there net worth needs to look at currency from developing countries that have a rising gross national product. If the dollar were not the world currency wear would we be?