$100.00 Investment Question

if you would consider Australian coins there are quite a few that have investment potential. $1 Victoria Cross and ANZAC coins would be worth considering or the Queens Accession .50c PNC

I would say if you are looking for something new I would go for the US Marine corp silver dollar Proof or UNC it has gone up alot in value already since last year and I do not see it droping do to the mintage and the amout of Marine Corp there are. I would not invest in any new coisn that are in slab such as you said the 2004-p nickel in ms-67 do to two reason 1st think alot of coin are being overgraded and alot of the new coins will loss value, 2nd is that most modern coins if you look through mint or UNC rolls you should find ms-67 coins due to technology. Just my opion.

Or you could invest in a old coins since if you look at trends they are only going to climb in value the more new collecter get involved. I think the Barber half dollar. If you could get a low mintage coin in the price range are looking for would be a great investment in 30 yrs.

I think almost everyone here could come up with a different coin for you to purchase and we would all be correct on our choices. There are so many good coins out there to choose just one that would be a better investment than another would be a matter of personal taste in coins more than anything. If I had to choose I must agree with crystalk64 and say gold and silver are great investments.

I am sure you have heard the phrase "don't put all your eggs in one basket" and this applies to all forms of investing. Maybe a small assortment of medium grade coins would be safer and possibly a better investment if chosen well.

Are you set on something new? I still believe that the older coinage is a better investment. Keep in mind that I'm not an investment advisor or anything of that nature so this is only my opinion.

US Seated coinage is starting to rise a little in the market. This has long been seen as an overlooked series. You could probably get a very nice AU half dollar for around $100 if you shop carefully.

For my own collection, I always go for a nice Bust half dollar when I have $100 to spend. These coins are pricier and I don't think they'll rise in value as much as the Seated coinage in the years to come but I always see them as a good purchase.

"Find yourself a 2001 Buffalo Dollar and get it before the new $50 Buffalo Gold coins are released in June."

I was looking on the US Mint upcoming products and I do not see the $50 Buffalo Gold coin scheduled for release. Where can I find out more about this?

What ever I do decide on I will post my decision. Thanks

Will have to agree with SuperDave on this one but still see the problem is what YOU want to do. I knew you would get various answers from each individual as that is what they believe in. For the most part each answer is right and each answer is wrong and only you can decide where to put that $100 bucks. You will find something that you feel very good about so trust your instincts and go with what ever pleases you. This hobby is really based on knowledge and learning experiences so good luck!

Thirty years was a long time even when it was just thirty years. But now you might be looking ahead more like 300 years.

There used to be a club called the BIE Guild that collected Lincoln Cent BIEs. Most of them spent 20 years doing this because that's how long it took to buy and trade BIEs back and forth with each other by snail mail. When I got on the Internet I bought close to 500 BIEs and the related stuff like cracked skulls and spiked heads etc in less than 2 years. The Internet compressed what used to take 20 years experience into 2 years.

The Internet has destroyed time. It has also destroyed the "limits" to what someone can collect or how they will collect based on "what's out there" and what can "realistically be completed in a life time." Everything is out there and anyone can invent any topic or theme they want and find what they want. And a "life time" might be 2 or 3 years. That's why I like tokens, it really will take a life time, even with the Internet.

This, IMO, is going to bring back the "frontier style" collecting of the early days-- the days of Gus Sage and the gang. It's an amusing irony because the frontiers were more about adventure (as coin collecting should be) but still became investments. Did the frontier people see the muck land that is now Chicago as an "investment." Could they see it after seeing wagons and horses disappear into it? But Chicago is certainly worth some money today. But that value is useless to the ones who bought the land there 200 years ago too. In coin collecting "frontier style" that's where the Internet may come in. 200 years may only be 20 Internet years.

I have a sneaking suspicion that war commemoratives are the ones that will grow in value, perhaps someone more knowledgable would point you in te right direction there.