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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1109752, member: 66&quot;]Yes they are a &quot;key&quot; date and the &quot;rarest&quot; in fifty years.&nbsp; I&#039;m surprised though that you discovered the 1959 nickel and that didn&#039;t show you the fault in your logic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes in the 1960&#039;s they might have been more than 2.5X face, but they haven&#039;t really moved in the intervening fifty years.&nbsp; If you paid that premium for them back then you have made zero money, and in effect, due to time value of money, you have LOST a bundle.&nbsp; And that is for a coin that is RARER than the 2009&#039;s and which was hoarded to a MUCH less extent.&nbsp; In 1959 and the early 60&#039;s the 1959 coins were not really considered to be something &quot;special&quot; and the hoarding of rolls and bags of them was modest.&nbsp; But the 2009&#039;s were jumped on with dozens if not hundreds of people putting away multiple bags of the coins.&nbsp; You may have &quot;8000 of the rarest nickels made in the last fifty years&quot; but there are many individual hoarders out there that have 40 to 80 thousand of them.&nbsp; And that doesn&#039;t include the hundreds,&nbsp; possibly thousands, that have hoards of the size of yours or smaller.&nbsp; They made 30 million 1959 nickels and probably between 300 and 500 thousand of them are still around in BU.&nbsp; After fifty years they are around 3 - 4X face.&nbsp; They made 39 million 2009-P nickels and probably between 3 and 10 million of them are sitting around in BU hoards today.&nbsp; Frankly I don&#039;t see much potential for growth over the long term as a date.&nbsp; Event though it is a &quot;key&quot;&nbsp; there are a lot more modern dates, with much higher mintages, that are much tougher to find in BU today than the 2009-P.&nbsp; And those coins will only get tougher while the hoards of 2009-P&#039;s will make them relatively commoner and commoner.&nbsp; Over the past two years the X face premium for these coins has been going down, down, down.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you have a much better prospect for profit potential from the metal value of nickels, and right now you don&#039;t have to pay a premium to get them, and it doesn&#039;t matter if they are BU or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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