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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 5399002, member: 112&quot;]You can also have a coin like this one - </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1232845[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1232846[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There were only about a 150 of these even minted. And yet when I bought it over 20 years after it was minted - and yeah it&#039;s slabbed as a PF CAM by NGC - I paid melt value for it. And now, almost another 20 years later, it&#039;s still only worth melt value.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in over 40 years this coin which is scarce by any definition has no numismatic value to speak of because it&#039;s simply not popular. </p><p><br /></p><p>In another 40 to 60 years who knows what will happen. Maybe nothing, maybe a lot. But whatever happens it will be determined by one thing - its popularity. </p><p><br /></p><p>And of course the opposite is true. Coins that exist in huge numbers, several hundred thousand of them, are extremely expensive, even in very low grades, simply because they are popular.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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