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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1437776, member: 15929&quot;]The value of a coin is directly related to how many there are vs how many people want them.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are hundreds of relatively scarce coins which folks simply do not care about. As such, their values are relatively modest compared to more popular coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>For this modern coin, which the 2009 DDR Lincolns are, the shear number of &quot;different&quot; varieties within this one coin tells people that there are millions of these and as such, there&#039;s no real big hurry to explore the coin much less attempt to collect them as there does not appear to be an upside. </p><p><br /></p><p>If people do not care then there simply is no viable market other than those that do care. Those that DO care, probably already have what they need and as such, they are NOT in the market to buy. Again, there&#039;s just not a viable market to pursue with this particular coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not that the coin and its 101+ different varieties isn&#039;t important as much as it&#039;s that folks have simply lost interest. I believe that the interest went bye bye at around DDR-030 when the attributors began attributing extremely minor doubling which is nearly undetectable by the loupe. The same degree of doubling on more larger coins is always returned as &quot;too minor to list&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just like anything else in this world, alot can be too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a hundred years, maybe things will change with regard to the coin but IMO heavily investing in these today is a fool&#039;s errand simply because the market is extremely limited due to the fact that most folks simply don&#039;t care.</p><p><br /></p><p>If YOU can figure out a way of getting peoples attention so that they do care, then and only then will things turn around.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps if someone that has collected and had graded and attributed the entire run of these coins would make a display at a major coin show coupled with articles in a national numismatic publication would do the trick?</p><p><br /></p><p>I don;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for prices &quot;skyrocketing&quot; due to inclusion in some future Cherry Pickers Guide, I seriously doubt that this will occur since those that really want these coins, already have them and the CPG would present nothing that is really new. Type B Washington&#039;s certainly did not &quot;skyrocket&quot; once they were included in the CPG. If anything at all, prices on low grade Type B&#039;s have dropped below the point of diminishing returns in that you cannot sell an MS64 for anywhere near close to what it costs to get graded and attributed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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