http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8391237108&indexURL=1#ebayphotohosting Saw this last week on ebay and was curious what it would get--it sure is a nice looking coin. Seems like there are some real good ole bargins out there for Commens but not a whole lot of interest. I've never collected pre-1954 Commens but unless my memory is failing Commens were always a rock'n in past bull markets. What happened? "Edith Sitwell giving readings 14 Moscow Road Osbert's giving champagne parties Sachie's got a cold Gertrude's hanging pictures Alice making tea Me, I do the only thing that still makes sense to me I do the Rock..." Tim Curry ---I do the rock
Not low for todays prices but why are today's prices low? I seem to recall 35D's going for somewhere around $2,000 in a PDS sets in the past. Is that right? I just going by memory here but I always liked that designed and usually checked in on every now and then. It just seems strange that there so little or what appears to be so little interest in them. Especially when it's the best of both worlds--a series with the different mottifs of type collecting.
Hmmm, can't say I can recall prices ever being that high. The oldest action record I can find right off for a Texas PDS set in MS64 was just over $400. That was in '04. By then early commems had been going up for 2 yrs or so - the market for 'em was dead before that.
The one in the link is a MS65. I have a set of Greysheets from 1979 somewhere. Maybe I'll get off my butt tonight and dig 'em out take a look. Although by the end of 1979 MS65 was anything that was still round.
Well I don't know what year I was thinking for the $2,000 :headbang: But it probably wasn't 1979. The latest CDN issue I have for '79 is Sept and it was $395 for MS65 PDS. I did find Bilinski's 1958 "A Guide to Coin Investment" in the ruins of my dwelling. He was projecting that the 1935 PDS in Unc. would be at $27.50 by 1972. Wonder what it turned out to be? :hail:
