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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1729236, member: 68&quot;]India prices have exploded in the 2014 Krause.&nbsp; The 1954 set is now $4,000!!!&nbsp; The real winner is the 1967 mint&nbsp; set that went from $11 to $4000.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not to late to collect India but it has gotten very risky to speculate in India.&nbsp; The market still hasn&#039;t worked out the rare from the common so their are some very common coins sporting prices of several dollars now instead of several cents. If you collect you&#039;ll qickly learn what&#039;s easy and tough but if you speculate you&#039;ll end up with large quantities of very common coins.&nbsp; I still like the Uncs more than the proofs and especially the older ones with high mintages in Gem.&nbsp; Indian coins are often poorly made and many will have a rub.&nbsp; Cu/ ni can be well made but these are more prone to being slightly circulated.&nbsp; It appears the attrition on mint sets has been extremely high but mint sets will always represent at least a small supply.&nbsp; The winners will be those that have no supply.&nbsp; Most will probably be dated between 1950 and 1964 but there will be numerous scarce coins up until pretty modern times.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I like Gems because they are tough.&nbsp; I suspect a lot of the Gems that are seen came from mint sets but, incredibly, I&#039;ve never seen an Indian mint set of any date.&nbsp; They were probably sold primarily in India.&nbsp; The proofs are more of a known quantity but the attrition rate is probably fairly high on these as well.&nbsp; I have seen proofs in junk boxes. All the packaging seems fairly stable except for the 1969 which is poor.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The one Rupee coins didn&#039;t go up much but they all appear to be pretty tough.&nbsp; Only the &#039;70 was recognized as to its scarcity and it went up to $200 in nice choice condition.&nbsp; You&#039;re lucky to find it even in AU though.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always liked India a lot and it&#039;s nice to see that the demand is picking up.&nbsp; It&#039;s a shame I didn&#039;t collect these more systematically so I had the rarities.&nbsp; Availability has always been spotty so collecting them has been tough anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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