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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 596943, member: 13650&quot;]No way.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; 50-D = 2.6 million</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; &#039;09-D = 39 million</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; That&#039;s 15x more produced than the 50-D.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can get a very nice 50-D for 20 bucks and this is 60 years later.&nbsp;&nbsp; Divide 20 by 15x the production = $1.33 = a waste of time.&nbsp; Not to mention the ebay factor and how obtainable these will eventually be.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe rolls will carry a &#039;slight&#039; premium, but I&#039;m not going to waste my time and storage space on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; We have how many commemorative coins with mintages in the 10s to 100s of thousands and even at those levels they aren&#039;t looked upon as being rare.</p><p>&nbsp; I agree with tmoney.&nbsp;&nbsp; Circulating coins should be under 6 to 1 million minted before anybody gets excited.&nbsp;&nbsp; Despite the premium, rolls of Franklin halves might be the thing to start stashing away.&nbsp;&nbsp; In a few years you can get 3-5 bucks per BU coin for them pretty easily.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know because I&quot;ve paid premiums to get them from the 80s, 90s and even 2000s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Since 01 they haven&#039;t been releasing Kennedy halves for circulation and mintages are down to only 1.7 million per mint, per year.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now there&#039;s key dates for you.&nbsp;&nbsp; And a lot of people collect/ will collect halves.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; In the mean time, dealers (including the one I listened to on coinchat yesterday) are heading to Indiana for the release of the 2nd penny design to try to buy rolls at face and make a fortune on ebay ripping people off in the very short term.&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#039;s not my cup of tea and probably isn&#039;t a smart thing to do for the hobby.&nbsp; But if fools want to give away money, there will always be someone there to take it from them.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t feel sorry for them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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