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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 39130, member: 68&quot;]Yes.&nbsp; It is a lot of coins so will never be a rare coin in the foreseeable future.&nbsp; But consider that when the population of the country was far smaller back in 1964 the &#039;50-D nickel with a far higher mintage and number of survivors got up to $140 per coin in todays money. In those days there was much less concern over condition and this price applied to any unc coin.&nbsp; While the &#039;96-W was well made by current standards the typical example will have peripheral numbers or letters which are virtually flat.&nbsp; Many modern collectors seek well made coins and the numbers of really attractive W dimes is much lower than the mintage.&nbsp; Also these coins have been appearing in pocket change since 1996 was around the ending of an era when real collectors didn&#039;t care about recent coinage.&nbsp; These sets were often bought by outsiders to the hobby who didn&#039;t really know what they had and might tire of the sets and spend the coins.&nbsp; Many mint set collectors at that time bought these sets simply to get the half dollars early in the year for their collections and immediately cut these sets up.&nbsp; About half of the W dime packets were placed in these sets right in between the plastic sleeves or the sleeves and the packaging where they were unlikely to be missed but the rest were placed in a folder in side the heavy packaging.&nbsp; These coins can easily be overlooked because they aren&#039;t heavy enough to cause the folder to fall out.&nbsp; If the owner doesn&#039;t know it&#039;s there or forgets than the coin can end up in the garbage with the packaging.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The attrition on this coin is probably well over 3% while the &#039;50-D had very low attrition.&nbsp; With a new generation of collectors coming aboard this coin will do much better if large numbers decide to collect dimes and include this in the set.&nbsp; In 1964 the Jefferson nickel was not by any means the most popularly collected coin.&nbsp; The current dime though has a great deal of chance to be very widely collected and has much going for it numismatically.&nbsp; Most of all is the fact that these coins are in circulation and are unmolested by collectors.&nbsp; There are actually rare coins like the &#039;82-NMM and AU 1969 dimes there for any who would seek them out. There are some great varieties and the coins are available.&nbsp; With the huge numbers of people who might gain an interest it makes a 1.3 million mintage look far smaller.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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