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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1674145, member: 68&quot;]Four fold increases in a year are pretty tame by the standards of moderns </p><p>where even the rarest coins can be priced for a dollar or two.&nbsp; The reason </p><p>almost all moderns are still cheap isn&#039;t that they are common, it&#039;s that there </p><p>is almost no demand. All it takes is a few collectors trying to find one to push </p><p>the price way higher. </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s no demand because collectors have always preferred precious metals </p><p>and modern coins are percieved as debased junk poorly made in enormous quan-</p><p>tities.&nbsp; Few people have anything but disdain for aluminum coins made in large</p><p>quantities so they aren&#039;t set aside and aluminum wears and erodes away very</p><p>quickly leaving no trace in circulation or garbage dumps.&nbsp; The most dramatic ex-</p><p>ample of an aluminum coin that wasn&#039;t saved is the 1950-E East German 10p.&nbsp; </p><p>Even though it was made in staggering numbers it circulated for decades before </p><p>being withdrawn and melted in the &#039;90&#039;s.&nbsp; Today the coin is just slightly elusive </p><p>in worn condition since some escaped melting and a few went home with tourists </p><p>over the years but in Unc is is quite scarce and commands $1300.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This aluminum is worth over thirty thousand&nbsp; per troy ounce!!! It&#039;s already worth</p><p>twenty times its weight in gold.&nbsp; Imagine if it had the same sort of demand that </p><p>an old US coin has![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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