LIVERPOOL, N.Y. -- Gold, silver, platinum. It's called bullion by coin collectors, but some investors call it security.
"The worse the stock market is, the higher the interest in bullion. So you get a lot of silver and gold interest,” said Bill Barry owner of Web Coins.
"When we had the meltdown in the stock market a few years ago, there was a lot of shifting to what we call hard assets,” said Alan Kilmer, a coin dealer and collector.
Dealers at a Central New York Coin and Currency show say they're used to seeing people who only have interest in the precious metals. With a changing economy and political landscape, those hard assets can be one way people prepare for the future. Although, with the current low prices of gold and silver.
"If you're looking to get rich quick then don't buy precious metals, but if you give it some time, silver and gold could easily be at levels way higher than they're at right now, obviously. Because they're pretty darn low right now,” said Kilmer.
But there's value in coin collecting too, just a different kind.
"There's only so many presidential dollars or Sacagawea dollars and they're all easily attainable so I always did prefer to collect the rare stuff, that market will always be there,” said Barry.
However, for those who want certainty, there's only one way to go.
"They're here solely to buy bullion, they have no interest whatsoever, they don't even have really knowledge of numismatics, the science of collecting coins, but what they do know is they want to invest their money in hard assets,” said Kilmer.
And those hard assets aren't hard to come by as dealers at this Central New York Show travel across the state selling pieces of their collections.