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Message:: [QUOTE="World Colonial, post: 2444599, member: 78153"]Classic silver commemoratives were inflated by the late 1980's TPG bubble.   There were other series which were also inflated though to my knowledge, these have not lost nearly as much value.  My recollection is it included some of the Barber coinage, Morgan dollars, classic gold and even 3CN. The coins which are the most inflated now are "scarcer" in the sense that the existing population is now better known.  From a collecting standpoint though, the financial risk is that there is no substantive difference most of the time between the highest grades and those one or a few points lower. Collectors have been conditioned to believe that the "best" quality will always outperform financially longer term.  I wouldn't count on it.  Not where existing price spreads are already inflated and the most compelling thing about them is frequently if not usually the label on the holder.[/QUOTE]