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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2437189, member: 78153&quot;]Correct.&nbsp; And to be clear, I was not trying to &quot;knock&quot; the &#039;55 DDO cent in my last two posts or singling out this opinion.&nbsp; It&#039;s an opinion I hold for coins generally but especially for a high percentage of US such as these. </p><p><br /></p><p>The biggest problem financially for these &quot;key&quot; dates is that their prices are totally out of line with their numismatic merits.&nbsp; Not only are they not &quot;rare&quot;, they are frequently not even the scarcest coins in their series because the &quot;low&quot; mintages resulted in (much) higher survival rate, especially in better quality.&nbsp; (An example being the 09-S VDB.) My opinion is that the existing perception is mostly a leftover from a time (60&#039;s or 70&#039;s and earlier) when collectors had far fewer choices than they do now and predominantly collected out of pocket change. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most collectors seem to have a cultural preference for coins from their country of origin.&nbsp; This is certainly true of US collectors, equally true in South Africa and seems to be equally true from the listings in foreign auctions on Sixbid.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree most US collectors will continue to prefer the coins they do now, except that I don&#039;t believe they will be able to pay current prices across the board.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also many US collectors (maybe low proportion but high number absolutely) who buy these &quot;key&quot; dates for a variety of reasons, even when they don&#039;t collect the series.&nbsp; These are the primary collectors I expect to choose other coins and from this reduced marginal demand, I expect lower prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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