What is your short list for the most undervalued coins

What coins in your opinion are the most undervalued. Can be US or Ancient. Coins you think have no where to go but up in value over time.

 

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I’ve been collecting for 64 years. Just about every coin is worth more today than when I added it to my collection. Some have barely risen in price. Others have tripled in the 4/5 years that I’ve had them. You just never know:

 

Undervalued coins?.....or under appreciated series?

Playing the devil's advocate I choose under appreciated, and lack,of interest.....
Let's face it ....there are series that draw everyones attention, and others that don't.
Let's take nickels for an example....many are clueless that out of the top ten realized auctions 2 out of 10 was a nickel. Two Jefferson nickels that have mintages much lower than a 1893 O Morgan the 1994 special matte finish has a mintage almost half of the 93 O , and the 1997 Jefferson matte 25,000 mintage is 12 times less than the 93 O yet...neither of these two dates hold any interest to most collectors.
This is only 1 example of a series that is under appreciated....and holds little premiums.
Another unfortunately is the Franklin half dollar collection....unless they are top pop full bell lines their interest are little to none. And yet is a doable collection for most to collect in most grades MS to EX.

So again I'll go with unappreciated rather than undervalued as some series are always hyped, and others are seldom talked about. ....another series that comes to mind is Roosevelt dimes.
Unfortunately they too have little crowd appeal.
However coin collecting isn't an investment, unless you add in the knowledge you learn form collecting.
That to me is one of the best returns for my time spent, as well monies spent to build a collection.

 

The ones I own.

 

I don't know if I'd be bold enough to call anything undervalued - but there are some coins I'd call underrated.

There's usually a reason a coin is underrated, however. Half dimes as a series tend to be very reasonably priced for how scarce many dates are, yet many collectors are put off by their very small size.

The 1867-S $5 gold piece is a genuine rarity with fewer than 100 known examples, yet a well-circulated piece can be found for under $2k! What's the problem? Very few can afford to collect Liberty Head gold by date and mintmark, and quite a few genuinely rare dates fade into obscurity as a result.

First Spouse gold coins - mintages usually a couple thousand, but they're an obscure modern bullion series no one really collects.

Many 1920s mintmarked Lincoln Cents are much, much rarer than the 1909-S VDB in UNC, yet for several reasons (they don't have the same legendary historical prestige, most Lincoln collectors are satisfied with circulated coins anyway) they sell for small fractions of the price.

I can go on. There are plenty of great values in the collecting world, but there are also reasons they're great values. Makes specialist collecting a whole lot easier, doesn't it?

 

Large cents and other old copper, right now they still fairly easy to come by both "on the market" and price wise. I see as they tipping over the 200 year mark they start to rise fairly fast. Don't think so? Price out an 1823, they have gone through the roof in the last couple weeks. Of course it doesn't help that 23 is a key date, but prices have risen sharply, recently.. will be watching the 24s next year to see if they do similar lol

 

Many of the classic silver commemoratives

 

Well said. I'm in agreement here.

I'd like to add the gold Indian Head Quarter Eagles as an under appreciated series.

Lets add the pre-1965 Washington Quarter series as affordable in mid MS grade.

 

What I am talking about are coins that have low mintage and should be valued more but there seems at this point to not be. You never know it may not ever be up valued as was said above the market dictates value. But rarity plus desirability is what makes for value.

 

They just stated that. The Dime especially. Everyone has a different eye, different beginning of how or why one looks into collecting. I’m not a collector but I have learned here, something may be a wonderful find or one purchases a rare coin in their eyes or just find one in your change. My opinion is, if one has the funds to purchase a coin at an auction, it can be for many reasons why one is purchasing it. If that makes sense.

 

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a really good answer to this question although i am not at home give me a few secs

 

Please see the attached list this is for a specifically sent denominations, Lincoln simply are my prolific Arab expertise and choice there are several other pages that I show attached in a later run through which will contain from 2009 to 2013 it'll also contain from 1872 to 1955 covering 2 cents 3 cents 5 cents 10 cents on up to dollar coins. The case of severely undervalued is due to sheer mintage in my opinion. In that case based off of that specific criteria

 

When I tell you I have been waiting for somebody to ask a question like this I've seriously been waiting I compiled this list all about maybe 8 to 10 years ago back in like 2014 or something like that

 

I share these lists freely because I want you to succeed in your coin collecting endeavors

 

IF YOU SHEERLY SHOP VIA low mintage , which i want to do it would make a awesome type set...

 

just keep in mind most of the coins and currency on the list are common coinage , not errors of other items..

 

1997 matte finish Jefferson nickel mintage 25,000 . One of the lowest known modern mintages.

Then if you want to compare something older the 1893 O - vs- 1895 S if you're going on mintages.....however there's another factor to the equation and that is survival rate! As there are quite a few series ,dates, mint marks, that ended up in the pot to be melted.

Silver dollars, IHC, even half dimes that some were actually minted on a Monday and melted on a Tuesday. IE 1853 no arrows half dime be they Philadelphia or New Orleans.
Then we can address this from the direction of when you aquired a coin. Case in point the 1950 D Jefferson nickel. In the early. 1960's the 50 D was horaded in rolls a difficult mm to find in change esspecially if you lived on the right coast. As air travel had not yet been a choice for the middle class.
So minted from Denver and San Francisco were hens teeth. The retail cost of a ms 64 1950 D nickel was 25/30$ in 1960's money however today a nice ms 65 1950 D can easy be obtained under $20 in 2023 money.
So adjust for inflation and you'll see exactly what I am saying.

$25.usd 1963 = $ 243.23 in 2023 buying power. Thus work it backwards on a $20.00 purchase today on a 1950 D nickel. Then you'll see that a 1950 D purchased in 1963 would be a huge loss in todays money.

 

Any half-dime technically graded F and above (1794/5 in a league of their own, of course, in all technical grades).

 

On tv coin sales they can make always somehow/someway make a coin rare.

 

I started to buy half dimes. I wait on ebay and have picked up some nice but lower grade ones for 10 to 15 dollars. And a few nicer ones. Here are a few I picked up in the last couple of days.