U.S. Coins collected in year 2158. Opinions?

Ok,

This is my first stab at a poll. Cloudsweeper99 actually got me to thinking about it in another thread so here goes.

150 years from now what U.S. coin will people be collecting the most that is being minted NOW in 2008?

 

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Pennys will be by that time not in use. I think people will still strive to complete full sets. Same goes for the statehood quarters. By that point a 150 years into the future they well be as Capped bust hafs are to US now. Actaully when you think about it. every dollar coin from Ike through SBA to the golden dollars will be like Morgans and Piece dollars to us now as well. But I beleive the biggest thing that sets the coins of now and then apart is the fact that there are SO many coin collectors now were as in the past 100 to 150 years before us there wasnt. I also think that in a 150 years from now Money as we now it now might not be money at all.

I will gladly give you 230,000 credits for that 2009 Lincoln graded XF. lol

 

WOW , 100% lol

 

i think it will be the state quarters. They have great designs and will be cheap in the future

 

I'm in somehat agreement so far and all good points.

Oldman, the "will money be around" theory hit my mind as well. This is why I almost included currency but that will be another thread.

Monkeyman,

Quarters will be sought after and they WILL be cheap due to hoarding. No different than Bicentennial quarters are today.

Smaller denominations get spent a lot more so finding higher grades will be tougher even with the huge mintage figures.

Dollar coins are tiny in comparison to old dollars but will have some appeal.

NOW, what about the halves? Big, flashy coins. Many don't really reach circulation so high end examples will be available. A big series too if you get down to it. The Morgans of the future? Big, flashy and many unc examples because they don't get used.

Hmmmm.....

 

I believe that 150 years from now the Lincoln Cent will still be the most popular and still very much in demand. The Lincoln cent was highly sought after from its first day of release in 1909 until now...99 years later. It is a huge set if completed by date/mintmark and is and always will be a challenge to complete and even more of a challenge when the series is discontinued and no longer minted. The Statehood Quarters and Sac/Prez dollars will still be stashed away in hoards handed down through the generations and will end up like the Bicentennial Quarters as clembo said and not be worth much more than face value. They may turn into a "condition rarity" in which only worn examples will be hard to find. The sad part about all of this is none of us will be around in 150 years to see if our predictions will come true.

 

I still say Kennedy halves because it is the best [subjectively speaking] looking coin produced today and for the other reasons clembo points out. There may not even be enough high grade examples left of the other smaller coins in circulation today to really capture the imagination and interest of large numbers of collectors. What I'm not sure about is how well the metal in the coins will age over very long periods of time.

 

I say the Lincoln cent, because that has for some reason been the attraction to many collectors. Reason being, is it is cheap. It only costs you one cent (if you pull it out of circulation) to hold onto it. (Paraphrasing on my part a bit, remember reading this in a magazine and made a lot of sense IMHO) And, if it is discontinued soon (which I doubt, but we'll see ) then I think there might be even more interest in it then. Interesting thread clembo. :thumb:

Phoenix

 

This is such a tough call and almost comes down to the flip of a coin.

A lot of what will determine the most actively collected coin hasn't even occurred yet and is largely unforeseeable. The cent will probably be discontinued and destroyed within a few years. Many won't be turned in because it won't be worth the trouble but most of these will get tossed in the garbage. There are an awful lot of pennies out there in unc and there will be a lot of increased demand when it's discontinued. People will take care of them. Nickels will meet a similar fate.

Indeed, so far in the future there's little doubt all these coins will have been recalled and destroyed. There probably won't be any coins any longer so collecting won't be a mass hobby. The demand will come from various scientific specialties and from curators and the like.

While much of the future may be dominated by something like the quarter or nickel when you get so far out then I suspect that metalurgists and anthropologists will have the greatest interest in the metals used in the silver and gold coins. By that time they'll be able to tell a great deal about where each of the constituent parts of a coin were mined. It will be useful information for studying current and ancient mining. Copper isn't recycled sufficiently to accomplish this with current coin and nickel will be of relatively little interest since records exist and there will be less interest in this era, probably.

The early eagles were made from the strategic stockpile and some of this could have come from very old sources. The newer eagles should be from more diverse but generally newer sources, I'd guess.

It's really a crap shoot predicting so very far in the future. Remember the weatherman misses the next day quite often and has huge computers working on nothing else.

 

40% Siver Ikes short life only 5 years

 

150 years is a long time - NONE of us will be there to see it! Who knows what coin might come out in the future that drives everyone nuts to collect!

 

I think they will be collecting the 2158 Hillary $100 dollar plastic coin. Given inflation, it will be worth about $.25 in today's currency.

 

I'll let you know in 2150.

 

Great post! I like the Ike Dollars as a possible and also indian and lincoln cents. Don't forget mercury and barber dimes. JMO

 

I'm sure all of those things will still be collected but the question is of coins being minted NOW in 2008. Narrows the field a lot.

clembo

 

Clembo...

I firmly believe that the American Eagle Series will rank pretty high as a collectable series.
The changes that will be made for all the Anniversary coins will be dramatic....who knows the metals could be so expensive then that they could be untouchable.

I feel that the price of Gold, Plat and Silver at that time will be out of reach for a lot of folks cuz it is at the moment. So all gold coins, platinum and commemes from 1999 will be popular.
The full set of first lady coins will be out of sight as most have given up on them already!
Electronic money will be the primay source of cash flow and metals will still be held my major power countries as they are today.
Oil will be the thing of the past as atomic energy will run the world.
Just my two cents worth...

RickieB

 

I think people will look back on this worthless, clad coinage and go back further to get silver.

 

anyone think a superconductor will ever be discovered that's common enough to make usable?
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i think electronic money will never be safe enough for the public to entirely accept
I also think in that year it will not be hard to counterfeit the coins from 2008, so none of them will be popular
also, with America crashing downward, I think American coins will not be as popular to collect as they are now and demand will be small due to the lack of available money for things like collecting coins

edited...
but I agree the American eagle series will always be popular as gold will always be gold, and the same with plat and silver

 

Authentic 2007 Visa Cards

Authentic 2005 MasterCards

Large Cents

All Gold Coins

Morgan Dollars

 

I think Roosevelt Dimes are highly overlooked.
I've been saving all the ones I find in circulation up until 1990 and been buying rolls of silver ones.