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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1592587, member: 68&quot;]In this case I was referring to somewhat older coins; the 50c and 1E minted from 1924 to 1968.&nbsp; These were very heavily circulated and even though they are attractive designs they never got much interest.&nbsp; Most of the pre-WWII issues are scarce in Unc and even in XF despite the very high mintages.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They also issued debased silver higher mintages but these appear to have good premiums more because of the low mintages than because they were completely overlooked. People saved them but they didn&#039;t save many because they were hard to locate.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>At this time almost all of the few modern collectors seek Unc coins so the few moderns that are tough in XF usually have very low prices.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So far I haven&#039;t been able to identify any of the later date (post 1971) Portuguese coins that might be scarce or grossly undervalued.&nbsp; They all appear to be available.&nbsp; However the pressure of demand hasn&#039;t affected these yet so it&#039;s entirely possible there&#039;s some wheat among this chaffe.&nbsp; The early &#039;70&#039;s 10E are not as easy as the book suggests and nice examples are much less common.&nbsp; Some of these coins like the 1980 25E have very low mintages so it&#039;s impossible for very many to survive in Unc.&nbsp; It&#039;s probable there will be some winners here but I don&#039;t know which ones.&nbsp; As with most moderns the low prices are caused by a dearth of demand and not by a large supply though there are some extremely common modern Portuguese.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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