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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 108942, member: 4381&quot;]Your just not acknowledging the fact that current nickels are a nuicense to the public.&nbsp; People **hate*** them.&nbsp; I have jars of nickels (and pennies) which have no value even to count them.&nbsp; There are hundreds of examples of mint condition coin in them and they still have no value.&nbsp; Coins that are this low in value will never have any historical value.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You said that a nickel has a value of about a penny.&nbsp; This is just not true.&nbsp; The NY Times cost in my mothers generation 10 Cents.&nbsp; It is now $1.00.&nbsp; A Subway ride was a nickel and then a dime.&nbsp; Now it is $2.50.&nbsp; A Phone call is 50 cents, a bottle of Coke $1.50.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Nickel is a waste and the mint has made 1,000,000,000&#039;s of them.&nbsp; And the same is largely true of the rest of the modern coins.&nbsp; These are cold, ugly, hard alloy coins.&nbsp; These coins are hated.&nbsp; They are cheap.&nbsp; They are designed to be cheap.&nbsp; And there are billions of them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Where not talking about Morgans or Gold Coins.&nbsp; We&#039;re talking about Nickels.&nbsp; Modren Nickels are about the cheapest and ugliest things in existence and they are everywhere, like Tribbles.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>no offense, but who in their right mind is going to submit a Nickel for grading?&nbsp; - Yes and I&nbsp; know about those &quot;special coins&quot; MS 70s.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care.&nbsp; Nobody is going through their change looking for an MS 70 coin to submit.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Never happening...</p><p><br /></p><p>and you don&#039;t really know this anyway.&nbsp; There are BILLIONS.&nbsp; Over a Billion were minted in Phillie and Denver in 1999 ALONE with 2 million proofs.&nbsp; You want to discuss their rarity?&nbsp; Forget about it.&nbsp; Each grain of sand on the beach is truly one in a 100 trillion, and NOBODY collects them.&nbsp; And collectors haven&#039;t scanned even small fraction of Nickels, let alone Quarters, Dimes and Zinc Pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And this is the disconnect.&nbsp; They are not calling cards, they are garbage cheap, PIA coins that people hate.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is no demand for these tokens because nobody has senimental value connected to them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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