An octogenarian shook his head and sighed at these collections that had been collected with great difficulty. In the face of the decline of the antique collection industry, now his collection is no longer cared for, there is no market value, and his children and grandchildren are not willing to inherit it.
These Kangxi Tongbao and Qianlong Tongbao of the Qing Dynasty are in poor condition, and they have a large number of surviving lives, so they basically have little value in the ancient coin market. Old collectors don't look down on these ancient coins at all, and only a few collectors will patronize them.
Nowadays, there is a flood of ancient coins and fakes, and if you don't have any knowledge reserves in this area, you may buy fakes at any time, so friends who like to collect ancient coins should take a look at it more and try to start as little as possible.
The octogenarian collector once spent a huge amount of money to take over the silver ingots, which were 50 taels. Don't look at the appearance of this big ingot, if you can have such an ingot in that era, you can straighten your waist wherever you go. It's a pity that now this silver ingot has been reduced to a situation where there is no market, and most people are unwilling to spend a high price to take over again.
These Qing Dynasty porcelains collected by old collectors are too common. Now there are very few people who play porcelain, and such folk goods have no market value. Many friends on the Internet say that items that were once worthless are also worthless now. Therefore, we have to collect some fine products to play collecting! But fine products are not something that ordinary people can afford.
When I saw the huge collection of philatelic albums collected by old collectors, even I felt pity. If it had been transferred twenty or thirty years earlier, it would have been able to make a little money, but now, it can only be sent to the scrap yard for 8 cents a pound and disposed of.
The ancient coins, porcelain, and ingots collected by the old collectors can wait for the market to improve, and the philatelic album really can't afford to wait, and the longer it drags on, the less valuable it is, after all, there are no people collecting stamps anymore.
The collecting industry is unpredictable, and as the times progress, there is a high risk that some collections will become unattended scrap. Therefore, you must have an optimistic attitude when playing collecting, only care about the process of collecting, don't care about gains and losses, and don't worry about its future prospects.