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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1258315, member: 68&quot;]In 1964 a bag of &#039;50-D nickels was worth well in excess of a quarter million dollars in </p><p>today&#039;s money.&nbsp; There were more than 2,000,000 of these yet they could sell for as </p><p>much as $200 in today&#039;s money.&nbsp; Even today these sell for more than $10 and most </p><p>still survive.&nbsp; Why can&#039;t a coin with a mere 100,000 in existence at least get to where </p><p>the far more common &#039;50-D nickel is today.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Thry finding a nice attractive &#039;82-P nickel.&nbsp; An &#039;82-P nickel as nice as the typical &#039;50-D</p><p>nickel is probably 100 times more rare today!!!&nbsp; It sells for almost nothing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and did I mention the &#039;82-P comes as two different varieties so might have twice </p><p>the demand when collectors start extending their nickel collections past 1964.&nbsp; There&#039;s</p><p>only a single reason the &#039;82 is cheap; there&#039;s no demand.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just like the Russian coins that are up hundreds fold in a couple years we will eventu-</p><p>ally see the same thing in US coins.&nbsp; It&#039;s really not a question of &quot;if&quot;, it&#039;s more a question</p><p>of &quot;when&quot; and how much. It simply isn&#039;t reasonable to expect the hobby to survive as</p><p>a mass market and suggest that the &#039;82 nickel will never have even a small fraction of </p><p>the demand of the &#039;50 nickel.&nbsp; Such anomalies can&#039;t persist.&nbsp; Old collectors get replaced </p><p>by new collectors who won&#039;t share the old prejudices.&nbsp; If they don&#039;t get replaced then </p><p>there will be no mass hobby.&nbsp; The &#039;50-D nickel will be pocket change like most other US</p><p>coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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