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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1169341, member: 68&quot;]This is actually a highly desirable coin in ChUnc.&nbsp; It lists for only $2 which is mostly a nuisance fee but finding this coin is exceedingly difficult despite a mintage over 70,000,000.&nbsp; People just didn&#039;t save these when they were new and they got all worn out and beaten up in circulation.&nbsp; I&#039;d guess they&#039;ve all been withdrawn and melted by now or destroyed for private uses so finding nice pristine examples is extremely difficult.&nbsp; The price is low not because they are common but because there is virtually no demand whatsoever.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In a few years relations between most of the western governments and Cuba will probably be normalized and you&#039;ll see a great deal of new demand for the post-&#039;58 coinage.&nbsp; Then we&#039;ll know which are common and which are scarce but I can tell you in advance; most are tough or scarce.&nbsp; Almost none exist in the US and these don&#039;t exist in very large numbers anywhere.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;61 5c isn&#039;t too hard in XF/ AU and isn&#039;t scarce in Unc but choice examples are elusive in my experience.&nbsp; Poor examples will probably never carry much of a premium because these will literally come out of the woodwork and be recovered from dumps and the like.&nbsp; But once a coin is allowed to all go into circulation there is no going back and this has happened to countless moderns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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