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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 829499, member: 68&quot;]I love the aluminum coins too.&nbsp; It&#039;s a great metal for coin collectors since it takes a near perfect strike and wears the dies so slowly that there&nbsp; are usually lots of good strikes from good dies.&nbsp; Also this metal doesn&#039;t stand up very well to circulation so nice ones quickly become condition rarities.&nbsp; The coins get bent in feats of strenght and marred by the least little event.&nbsp; They wear so rapidly that just a few years in circulation can wear them nearly smooth.&nbsp; They are typically employed for very low denominations like the US nickel so a few nice ones often survive in change jars. </p><p><br /></p><p>Because they are low denomination there&#039;s a tendency for plenty to be saved but because they are considered junk this isn&#039;t always the case.&nbsp; Demand for these coins is very weak yet there are still plenty of very high priced aluminum coins and there are lots that are grossly undervalued.&nbsp; Try finding nice examples of those Japanes 1 Y coins for example or the Chinese aluminum from the &#039;50&#039;s.&nbsp; They&#039;re priced like junk but you can&#039;t find them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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