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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1389505, member: 26302"]I don't remember it, (I was negative 6 or so at the time), but have read about it a lot. I remember some dealer actually sent a bag of them with an employee, along with a Redbook, to Europe hoping to score some big profits before they heard about it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My big worry holding many "key" dates, (I do own a few), would be what happens as the coins get older and fewer and fewer people collect the entire series. I mean, what value is a 16d dime, 14d cent, or 1916 SL quarter if everyone turns to type collecting? That is what would keep me up at night as the holder of many 4 figure coins that are only "key" IF hundreds of thousands of people continue to collect by date and MM that series. I think type "keys" would be safer, but maybe that is just me. I always liked getting a different design for my money more that "well this one has a d instead of an s for that date....."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1389505, member: 26302"]I don't remember it, (I was negative 6 or so at the time), but have read about it a lot. I remember some dealer actually sent a bag of them with an employee, along with a Redbook, to Europe hoping to score some big profits before they heard about it. :) My big worry holding many "key" dates, (I do own a few), would be what happens as the coins get older and fewer and fewer people collect the entire series. I mean, what value is a 16d dime, 14d cent, or 1916 SL quarter if everyone turns to type collecting? That is what would keep me up at night as the holder of many 4 figure coins that are only "key" IF hundreds of thousands of people continue to collect by date and MM that series. I think type "keys" would be safer, but maybe that is just me. I always liked getting a different design for my money more that "well this one has a d instead of an s for that date....."[/QUOTE]
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