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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 8644385, member: 68&quot;]Franklin Mint coins can be numbered among the many coins and types to which&nbsp; coin collectors have a knee jerk bad reaction.&nbsp; It&nbsp; was caused largely by the sky high prices that were charged at the time of issuance and that so many coin collectors were priced out by them.&nbsp; I liked them all but never bought any but over the years the coins have actually acquired a discount to spot, face value, and sanity.&nbsp; There was a time that many of the Caribbean gold coins had&nbsp; a face value of $75 a gold value of $35 and could be purchased for $30.&nbsp; You could buy the coins and melt them for a profit or spend them for a much larger profit.&nbsp;&nbsp; Today people assume all these coins with mintages in the 15,000 range are &quot;common junk&quot; but the fact remains they were designed by the best artists, executed by one of the best mints, and no expense spared at any stage of distribution.&nbsp; The coins are what they are whether people like them or not and the attrition on some of them is far higher than most imagine.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Historically it is quality that most determines eventual demand but these are treated like red headed step children.&nbsp; It will not continue like this.&nbsp; The same mintages of &quot;15,000&quot; now that seems so sky high will someday seem miniscule even before the attrition is factored in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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