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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2005300, member: 15929&quot;]A word or two about precious metals in coins vs common metals.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Silver and Gold are much more malleable than a Copper-Nickel Alloy. As such, the designs can have much higher reliefs and much more POP!</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Quantity over Quality has been the US Mint and the Mints of the World mantra since the early 70&#039;s in that, given population increases, the demands for fiat money has increased a hundred fold if not more. This increase required if not DEMANDED lower profile coinage on higher speed presses which basically equates into designs that simply have no POP. Even the &quot;Collector Issue Coins&quot; produced in Silver and Gold have no POP because the designs are of such low relief.</p><p><br /></p><p>Comparing the POP of the CnClad 50th Anniversary Kennedy with the Low Relief version of the coin of the same year merely highlights what I am saying as one has POP while the other has nothing other than an extra consonant which makes it POOP.</p><p><br /></p><p>As such, many collectors prefer coins minted in precious metals and all prior to 1965. I believe that its design related and first impressions with the overall quality of the designs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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