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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3876014, member: 46237&quot;]Nope. Not as a blanket statement. Gem+ grades only. The coins are plentiful, but most are in very poor condition. The catalogs don&#039;t account for grade, so some coins are $1-2 but it may take years to find an MS66.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aluminum coins in general are underappreciated. Though there were certainly <i>some</i> coins made from aluminum in the very late 19th century and early 20th century, the metal wasn&#039;t really used as a mainstream coining metal until around 1940 due to the difficulty of refining the metal. At the time, they were considered new and cheap and people wanted to collect the silver coins they replaced. Decades passed without collectors really caring much about the cheap aluminum issues. Now some of these aluminum coins are going on 70-80 years old, and with a very low number preserved in collections at the time of issue, choice specimens are extremely hard to find.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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