morgan & peace dollars, walking liberty & franklin halves, standing liberty quarter, mercury dime, buffalo nickel, and lincoln wheat cent. these coins will become a type coin series. now, its 21st century. new generations and young people continue this hobby. and more new coins issued. when they reach our age. they will love to collect or have those coins dated said 1970 and above.
type coins yes, time come. it will. as now, we even not bothered to look for 1800's coins and before. we liked coins that we met during our childhood.
I think it will be some time before these will drop to the status of just type coins (with the exception of the standing liberty quarter which I don't think has ever really been widely collected by date and mint). Why? Because they are just too common. There isn't anything in them that would call a rare date. Some are expensive, but all of them are readily available. Plus I don't see the moden series becoming attractive any time in the near future. So the demand for the older more attractive series will remain high.
type coins until all baby boomer die. then surely those morgan to wheat penny should become a type coins.
too much for coin and die people declared retiring from job. soon they gonna die. why?. because they always wait untill they are very sick and unable.
Condor101, Standing Liberty quarters are common? The only thing common about so many of them are they are worn out low grade coins. I have been trying to fill a Dansco Album with higher grade coins for a couple of years now and still need to upgrade as many of the coins I have located are low grade (not my intentions when I started) and I have found that prices are thru the roof on many NICE examples of the SLQ regardless of date or mint mark. SLQ's are serious business when you drop down below 1925 and very hard to find? I think just the opposite as the SLQ to many people now, in high grades, is a type coin.
In many cases, price has very little to do with how common a coin actually is, especially with US coins. Of course price is also relative - to some $50 is expensive, to others $1,000 is cheap. There are a great many coins that may cost $500, $1,000 or more that are as common as dirt. SLQ's are among them.
Crystalk, go back and look at my answer again. You'll see that I specificly excluded the Standing Liberty quarter from my comments. I know the standing quarter is a tougher series simply because they wore out so fast. But even so they are available, not as much so as the other series he mentioned and because of that I think that they will eventually achieve type coin status. (Frankly I'd almost say they already have it. Comparitively speaking almost no one collects them by date and mint.)
I would love to collect SLQs by date (P mint only), it's the only US coin other than Washington's of the period that i'd consider. But i simply can't afford them in the grades i like, i.e MS63. Trouble with SLQ's EF's just don't look EF to me! I like a good strike with lots of detail available, MS63 seems to be the lowest grade that offers this with some mint bloom.
standing liberty quarter why not re-issue some standing liberty quarter for collector?. it will be a sold out immediately i think.
