What Is A Good Venue To Invest In?

In my case I am very much comfortable investing in old gold rarities (1866 Isabel 4 peso gold for instance or maybe an 1882 Alfonso 4 peso gold). Gold always goes up and so with the demand on rare old ones because of the trend in growing numbers of new collectors as well. We are all lucky because here in our hobby, we enjoy the pleasure of owning our coins while investing on it for future use / or maybe to share and passed-on to our loved ones

My suggestion has been made many times in the past and I really wonder why it's being ignored.
1. Invest in any company that makes Buggy Whips. With the prices of gasoline for a car, the Horse and Buggy just have to come back.
2. Beanie Babies are at an all time low. Buy up all of them since eventually all such things come back and you could have the majority of them if they really do.
3. Buy up millions of those little Hot Wheel and Matchbox cars. They are all made of metal and eventually the metal in those may be worth a lot of money to make coins.
4. Buy AT&T stocks. Not to long ago they almost took over the World. At one time their monitary backlog could have wiped out the national dept. They will do it again as soon as they buy Verizon.

CEOcoinshop: With the state of the economy in the shape that it is, you have a good point to make. Thirty years ago, I was building my collection, and my rationale was to get the hardest coins first. Then came the need to buy a house, so the rare coins had to be sold. You can't build a roof over your head with a stack of rare coins! Because my interest in coins is lifelong, I had to start again with collection building. The family and the mortgage had to be fed, and so I went downmarket with my coin interests.

Before I took the numismatic nosedive however, I bought a very nice gold stater of Philip 11 of Macedon from Spink's in London with the remainders of my previous collection. That was in 1973, and I kept the invoice and tickets for that coin, so I will have no problems with provenance if I sell that coin, which is unlikely. This coin was the basis to rebuild my ancient collection, except most of the coins are less costlier than the original collection. I retained all of my tools of the trade, which are my reference books.

However I expanded my collection horizons greatly and collect all world coinage from ancients until silver was withdrawn from world circulation in the 1960's.

This gives me the advantage of picking the 'eyes' out of the bargains of whatever is available at reasonable cost. To be able to do this and have sufficient knowledge in such a huge area of numismatics involves a good reference library of books, and I have well over 200.

That way, I can go down market, but at the same time, build up nice collection of reasonable coins. I guess that it analogous to investing in a stock market shares index fund.

And here is one more silly but a real thing. When my Son was a little kid I purchased a ton of those All Metal Tonka Toys for him. Used to pick them up at flea markets for practically nothing. He had my backyard full of them. Naturally that was a long time ago. Now when I go to flea markets I see those same toys but are being sold as ANTIQUES and for big money. I went to an Antique show not to long ago and saw a Bull Dozer like the one he had for over $200.
We sold all of them at a yard sale we had when he got to be a teenager.
So if you have any of them, hang on you may have a small fortune accumulating.

I guess the difference with toys is volume. And mistreatment just from handling the boxes. Coins are small and also portable. There's also humidity to worry about. (glue)

Gold has been a rare and precious metal that has held reign as the world's most durable and valuable commodity. It is no different today. In fact, as the economy starts to falter, there has never been a better time to start investing in gold

Hate to burst your bubble but I think, not sure, that the USA had that show for years before the BBC copied it. And it may well be the same people there that made the show as here.
In a way I wasn't kidding about AT&T as an investment. I know today it really is SBC but they use the name AT&T due to it's notariety and power. AT&T has been paying out dividends for possibly over 100 years now, non stop, including through the depressions and recessions, every 3 months. I've met many people that worked there and retire with more benifits than most people make still working.

Actually, the British show started in the late '70s, while the US version dates to the late '90s.