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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 572571, member: 17753&quot;]Going back to basics -- the key is supply and demand.&nbsp; The &quot;supply&quot; is what coin dealers and speculators stash away (not always correlated with mintage) and the &quot;demand&quot; is related to how many coin collectors want to buy it.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a kid in the late 60&#039;s/early 70&#039;s, I collected purely out of pocket change.&nbsp; I kinda stopped in the mid-1970&#039;s, but always stashed away silver coins -- which was almost irrelevant because I almost never ever saw one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m back into collecting (on a small scale) and one of the things I learned is that: even though you almost never see something in change, doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s rare at all.&nbsp; How often do you see wheat cents?&nbsp; At yet you can get bags of 5000 wheat cents for $300 (0.06 per penny).&nbsp; Half the Merc Dimes in G condition are only worth $1 to $2, which is pretty low considering that the melt value is almost $1.&nbsp; The point is that while I used to think wheat cents or Merc dimes (or &quot;fill in your example here&quot;) in circulated condition were rare . . . the supply is quite plentiful.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I&#039;m thinking if Merc Dimes are so easily obtainable now, even though the silver content is 8-9 times the face value and even though they stopped making them 64 years ago . . . well, I just don&#039;t see much increase in value on the horizon . . . except, of course, as people noted, those uber-key dates or AU/BU coins, etc.&nbsp; But you have to really know the market well to play high stakes like that.&nbsp; IMHO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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