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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 5141404, member: 105098&quot;]There is an attrition rate as a factor. Invariably coins will be mishandledoing as years go on. They will be stored improperly, touched, stolen and melted, or cashed into a bank for face value. Damaged in housefires or floods, Ect.</p><p>Happens.</p><p>You are correct in 100 years there will still be a lot available most likely but who knows what happens over 100 years. Maybe they sell for $300 and in 2080 silver hits $500 an Oz and a whole lot get melted down for the extra bucks along with millions of other bullion silver Eagles and rare date&#039;s and proofs. Maybe in 2050 there&#039;s a new world order and all PM&#039;s are confiscated and melted or coins and cash go obsolete worldwide and destroyed and nobody cares about numismatics anymore or all is taken in the WW4 effort or by an occupying force.... </p><p>Lots can happen to thin the herd so to speak. But the normal attrition rate barring extreme scenarios, will still apply and each year a few will disappear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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