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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 7795, member: 112&quot;]You may well turn out to be right Nd. One thing for sure though - neither one of us will be around to see it&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>My entire point in discussions on this subject is this - the number of coins produced a 125 yrs ago were in roughly equal proportion to the population of the country at the&nbsp; time as the coins of today are. The mintage numbers of coins are determined by the needs of commerce. And the needs of commerce are determined by the population of the country along with the surviving number of a given denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the 1880&#039;s - nobody thought the nickels of the day would be worth anything either. But I picked that coin at random - the same can be said for the coins of the early 20th century. Many of them had huge mintage numbers as well. But look at the values today. They are worth hundreds of times face value.</p><p><br /></p><p>All I&#039;m saying is that given a similar time frame - today&#039;s coins will have similar values. The mintage numbers don&#039;t really matter because the vast majority of them will gone forever 125 yrs from now. The survival rates for coinage has rarely differed over the centuries in proprtion to mintage numbers. And this is true of all coins of all denominations from all years from all countries. Therefore I see no reason to suspect that the US coins of today will be any different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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