Major Collecting Fork, Future Plans On What Way To Go! Vote!

If you are Collecting for the purpose of investing, stay away from coins and go see your financial advisor. However, if you love Collecting coins I would recommend whatever appeals to you is what's most important.
And the only advise I could give to you I.M.H. opinion is to purchase the highest graded Key dates first (if possible) in whatever series you decide upon. If you have any doubts about the years to Collect, buy only PRE-1967 coinage, they are the most cherished among Canadian Collectors and don't have the super high mintages that Post-1967 coinage is plagued with.

Glenn

I never buy coins solely for return on investment. Not to say I don't hope for them to go up in value for the time when they need to be sold, but I will not be counting on it.

Rather, I buy my coins smartly; trying not to over pay, and sometimes waiting until (what I think are) reasonable prices to come along, but I do not think of my collection as an investment as such.

The only way to really have the chance of positive returns would be if you analyze the market, and find undervalued items. It is not impossible, as several have done it before quite successfully, but you need to invest the time into learning about he trends. Sometimes, it may impossible to do that, as predicting the demand in 50 can be as impossible as predicting the president or prime minister at that time.

With a name like 'bullion-investor' I'm shocked you're asking us what to invest in when the best choice is staring you right in the face.

Silver at today's price of $25 an ounce is the screaming buy of the century.

collect what you like to collect, the value of any coin or collection will never exceed the value of the time you spent enjoying it.

Hi everyone - thanks for your honest replies


as for the quote about my name "bullion-investor13" if I could change it I would, I kind of hit that 250 ounce of silver mark and decided that numismatics is probably the route i'd like to go, that being said, I hope silver goes about $30.00 so I don't take much of a loss off 250 ounces.

i was speaking with an old friend (some of you may know him or know OF him) he works at Colonial Acres here in Waterloo Ontario, his name is Todd, I asked him the same question and this was his response:

"if you decided to collect small cents, 1920-1967 - in 50 years, the years with many high graded coins like 1965 and 1964 wont be worth much more, but if you collect the keys or high grade low mintage coins from all denominations, than you might have better luck/

i did purchase a 1943 Far 3 PCGS MS-65 X cross graded MS-65 ICCS for $650.00 today (population is about 11) I know "trend" is about $1200.00 so I might stick with a fast variety of collection all different Canadian coins.

My advice would be for you to buy the best grade of key dates that you can afford.

Study and learn and listen to the experts. Look for the newest key varieties that have now become a "new" and separate collectable.
Find them before the others do.

Those "in the trade" have a huge advantage at finding the new keys as they have a larger turnover when compared to a collector.

I would never consider gold or silver as a wise investment at this time. Just look back a few years, it's a bubble that can burst at any moment. Is this an important material that is used in today's world,..I don't really think so.

Check and see how much gold and silver is actually needed and used,...and then see how the vast majority of these precious metals are just being piled up in bank vaults never ever to be useful to us,..other than speculation...

There is no real reason for these metals to have such a high value.. It's not turned into jewelry or coins,...it's just piled up...

my 2c