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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 341231, member: 68&quot;]Aluminum has been a common coinage material only since the onset of WW II.&nbsp; Coinage of most countries that didn&#039;t issue silver and gold coins since WW II has been very very lightly collected.&nbsp; As a rule a lot of aluminum has been very very lightly collected as well.&nbsp; These coins wear exceedingly poorly and tend to last only a few years in circulation.&nbsp; Even when they don&#039;t get bent in feats of strenght they wear rapidly especially where they circulate with heavier coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>On the other side of the equation is the fact that these are usually extremely low denomination coins.&nbsp; This means if you&#039;re inclined to save them for the future you can save large numbers at very low cost.&nbsp; Some coins like 1952 Indonaesian aluminum was saved ion vast quantities and you can find nice uncirculated examples with very little effort.&nbsp; But a &#039;50-E E. German 10p which was made in huge numbers was hardly saved at all.&nbsp; Despite the high mintage the coin is elusive even in VF and retails for $1000 in unc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind though that almost all aluminum coins have an extremely low demand.&nbsp; If the demand were the same on these that it is on silver coins many more would be very difficult to locate and quite expensive.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a tendency for AL coinage to be common in very low grades.&nbsp; This is because when coins are recalled for destruction the aluminum coins have such low value many will escape the melting pot. Even if 2% of mintage survives they&#039;ll usually be very common.&nbsp; These will always be low grade if the coin circulated for any lenght of time though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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