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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 4402264, member: 73489&quot;]Excellent points.</p><p><br /></p><p>Spot on.....and the fact that gold couldn&#039;t really be bought until 1975 had to freeze/impact the numismatic prices even if you could or wanted to buy gold coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the gold price ran up so fast....$35 to $180...then a big correction....then a 4-year moon shot to $800....had to play havoc for anything priced off bullion and then when people found out a &quot;bullion coin&quot; really was a rare numismatic coin, prices moved more.&nbsp; Even dealers probably had to adjust....for decades, gold was fixed and 99.9% of your demand was other dealers and some hard-core collectors...now the public was interested, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The super-rare coins, proofs, and the 1907 HR were about all that were priced in 4 or 5 figures in the 1970&#039;s according to the Burdette/HA price charts.&nbsp; Everything else -- commons, semi-rare coins, and even very rare Saints -- could be had for &lt; $1,000 up to the late-1970&#039;s for the most part.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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