Investing in coins?

Question

i got plenty of old sliver nickles, dimes, quaters, and old wheat pennies, v-nickles, idain head pennies, proof sets, and some other stuff....

is this a smart investment

Answer 1

During inflationary times, these can be good investments.  The main problem is as you have already been informed by another responder liquidating them.  That can be an extremely difficult task--not so difficult now that Ebay is handy--but nevertheless difficult.

Answer 2

totall cuz after the gas prices raise to a certain point where they`ll have to use something else and i think that something else is going to be copper

Answer 3

I don't know about a smart investment, but contrary to other answers here, those coins are entirely liquid.

There is an extremely active market for US coins on eBay.  As an example (not necessarily recommended as a sales strategy), you can sell the types of coins you mentioned - old US silver coins (silver "war" nickels, and silver dimes through Silver Dollars) - in a listing as short as one day on eBay - at a very fair price, with lots of bidding activity.  Older US coins, like Indian Head cents and Liberty Head ("V") nickels also have an active and liquid market there.

Some modern (post-silver) proof sets, and common-date Wheat pennies, are exceptions - those aren't in great demand.

Answer 4

Somebody has to buy your coins. It's not very fluid.  It may take days to sell 5 coins and maybe several months or years to sell your collection.