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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1027684, member: 66&quot;]What a lot of people seem to forget about on things like this is that if they brought back a lot of the rare date pieces they chose, that they would then become much commoner date coins.&nbsp; The 1933 double eagle is so valuable because of it&#039;s story and because there is currently only one legal specimen.&nbsp; Bring back a wheelbarrel full of them and they are just another scarce date.&nbsp; Or the 1000 BU 16-D dimes.&nbsp; Yes they will still be a scarce and desired date, but the price for a MS piece will come way down.&nbsp; Those who spread out their haul over several different rarities would do better because they would have less effect on the prices when they came back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Others have possibly not considered that for the coins they are after they would have to go back to a specific time in the year or at a later time than they are considering. Go back to 1834 for an 1804 dollar and you won&#039;t get one.&nbsp; The ones they had were earmarked for Diplomatic sets and even after the two sets came back from the first mission the mint still didn&#039;t admit to having them until 1842.&nbsp; For the 1894 S dime if you go early in the year they hadn&#039;t made them yet, but go too late in the year and they were already gone.&nbsp; Even then you would have done better asking the coiner about them than the Director.&nbsp; For the very early coins the problem would have been that there was no centralized banking system for dispersing the coins so just trying to locate them would have been a problem.&nbsp;&nbsp; For the copper coins you might be able to go to the mint and get them, if they haven&#039;t already shipped them out to some bank that ordered them.&nbsp; But for silver or gold coins you would either have had to deposit metal with the mint and wait for it to be coined, or you might try the Bank of the United States since most of the gold and silver coins went to them.&nbsp; But them you are back to getting your timing right.&nbsp; If you wanted a 1794 dollar you would have to talk to Director Rittenhouse because the entire mintage went to him.&nbsp; Want a 1792 half disme, try and wheddle one out of Thomas Jefferson because he had all of those.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even going a few years after a group of coins were made provides problems.&nbsp; Go to the late 1790&#039;s and try and pick up a bunch of the early cents?&nbsp; try finding them.&nbsp; At that time there was less than one US coin per person in the country.&nbsp; Trying to get a group of them together could be a problem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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