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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;costello, post: 1644393, member: 42025&quot;]I&#039;m new to collecting coins, so take my opinion for what it&#039;s worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; I think what will make this a collectable is the packaging.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>2.&nbsp; There are only 20,000 farewell rolls being produced.</p><p>3.&nbsp; People who aren&#039;t coin collectors will want in on these, perhaps for nostalgia reasons.</p><p>4.&nbsp; If the people I&#039;ve read at Coin Talk represent the coin collectors of the world, they buy the coin and not the packaging.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure there will be many mint pennies out there, so you won&#039;t see coin collectors searching for these in the years to come.</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess: It&#039;s a short lived spike.&nbsp; I give the rolls 3 years before they&#039;re sit on consignment gallery shelves collecting dust with a $50 price tag on them.&nbsp; People will eventually forget about the penny they won&#039;t care about the rolls... or if they do, they&#039;ll crack them open with their kids just because.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What I don&#039;t know is how high the spike will go.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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