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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pocket Change, post: 302671, member: 8012&quot;]My focus in the past months has been to complete modern collections because they are affordable now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there are &quot;supposed&quot; key dates for moderns - the 1970-D Kennedy, the 1996-W Roosevelt, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another one is the 1987 Kennedy, it was only available in mint sets and had 5 or 6 times fewer minted, but the prices don&#039;t reflect that.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the latest Coins magazine, here is what we have:</p><p><br /></p><p>year/mint&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; mintage&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; MS-65</p><p>1986P&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 13,000,000&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; $25</p><p>1986D&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 15,000,000&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; $17</p><p>1987P&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2,890,000&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; $14</p><p>1987D&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 2,890,000&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; $10</p><p>1988P&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 13,000,000&nbsp; &nbsp; $16</p><p>1988D&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 12,000,000&nbsp; &nbsp; $12</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m not supporting the accuracy of the prices.&nbsp; I&#039;m just saying that RELATIVE to the mintage, the prices are not in line.&nbsp; The 1986P looks like the baby to own</p><p><br /></p><p>So.....&nbsp; Is this a case of the 1950-D nickel, the &quot;no cents V nickel&quot; or the 1931-S cent where the value is strongly affected by people who have horded them?</p><p><br /></p><p>As a side note, the price of the 1970-D Kennedy and 1996-W Roosy has gone down in the past couple of years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I dunno, just throwing this out if anyone has comments.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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