In 200 years...

Apparently.

Sometime after September of 1965 a clad quarter planchet inadvertantly got mixed in with the silver planchets being coined in Philadelphia and was coined with a 1964 date. The coin is a very highly lustrous AU+ (slider) with a fairly well centered but somewhat weak strike. While quite a few silver 1965 coins are known this is the only clad dated 1964.

'64/ '65 (and into '66) was a time of upheaval in the coinage and there are numerous common and rare types and varieties. I believe this coin is the most interesting of the lot.

 

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If in 200 years if nobody is using coins, then no one will be collecting them. NO ONE. No one collects ancients, or 2 cent pieces, or 3 cent pieces, because nobody ever remembers using them. Museums are full of thousands of coins that virtually nobody has interest in. Continuity is essential for collectivity.

 

Not neccesarily, it's like collecting snuff boxes, there will be some interest even if no longer used, people collect canadian $1 notes, they are no longer used

 

I started collecting ancients and have found them very fascinating.

 

If Reuben's theory is true, then the largest auction market on earth, which is antiques, doesn't exist. Hmmm...I guess trillions of dollars trading hands in those markets every year have to be wrong.
Guy

 

In the event that the world continues to spin after 2012... I think high grade circulation coins will be coveted, as well as the rare errors... otherwise most of it is pocket change and always will be... But these special issues are and IMHO always will be the best of the clad~

1994 Matte finish Jefferson Nickel
1997 Matte finish Jefferson Nickel
1996 W Roosevelt Dime
1998 S Matte finish Kennedy half dollar

$.02~
J

 

Ruben

FWIW, we still use furniture.

 

1994 Matte finish Jefferson Nickel - Not clad
1997 Matte finish Jefferson Nickel - Not Clad
1996 W Roosevelt Dime
1998 S Matte finish Kennedy half dollar - Not clad

And tell me folks, how do you know the pieces mentioned so far in this thread are all going to be "more collectible" than ANYTHING produced between now and 2212? I mean I wish I had your psychic abilities.

 

Just 200? Ancient coins were hugely popular in the Renaissance, the emperor Augustus used to have the provinces send him "old coins" for him to admire and give to his friends. We have proof of buried coin collections with only 1 example of each coin, and the coins spanning many centuries of manufacture that were buried 1800 years ago.

I would say coin collecting is much, much older than the US.

 

Yes, indeed, it will be the 2112 Leonardo DiCaprio $1,000 Presidential Supreme Commander Caesar coin.

 

That's true, and I can take my denari, sestertii, and drachms down to the local arcade and use them to play Ms Pacman........

 

He did say "200+". That could be 200 years and one day, or 1800 years, or more.
But I do see what you're saying.

 

In 200+ years, coins will still be "collectible", but they won't have much value.

The reason I say this is because we will have the technology to inexpensively build exact replicas at the molecular level, and it will be impossible to discern an authentic coin from the replicas. This will effectively destroy the market for high end coins.

We will also have harnessed dark matter for virtually infinite energy and we will use that energy to rearrange atoms such that all elements will be equally available to demand, so there will be no more "precious metals".

 

That may be true, however, there will be collectors that want the original. Coins will need to be highly pedigreed for authenticity, but counterfeiting will still exist. Summarily, a market will exist for the originals.

 

More like 2,000 years.

Oops, never mind, I didn't read the whole thread.