Is It Just Me That Coin Prices Seem To Be Going Up And Up?

Everything is going up. The increase in the price of gas here in the states is effecting everything else. So it would stand to reason even the price for coins are effected too.

Also maybe the USD is going down. People from other parts of the world can spend more money in the US since they can exchange more with their money while we get less in foreign exchange.

The year 2012 has now arrived. This is the year known as 'Peak oil', where the rate of discovery and exploitation of new oil fields can no longer keep up with increasing demand.

The result into the forseeable future, is that there will be a growing divergence, with increasing demand and decreasing supply.

One of the outcomes is that EVERYTHING will be more expensive.

Another result is that all petroleum based fuels, plastics, drugs, and whatever myriad else essentials, will become irreversibly increasingly scarce and expensive from 2012, going forward into the future.

Scary stuff, but unavoidable fact. It has the potential to precipitate severe worldwide social unrest.

They are going up. I have been collecting silver coins for about a year, mostly European coins from the era when silver circulated, and they used to sell on ebay for closer to melt value. Deals are increasingly hard to find. Coins which are stamped with fineness and weight, like the 1973 Venezuela 10 Bolivares and the '47/'48 Mexican Cinco Pesos, always command a significant premium to the extent that I have neither in my collection. When silver was higher, they tended to track it more closely. For many coins, there seems to be a "floor" value of maybe $35-38 per ounce ASW.