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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 3050424, member: 42034&quot;]The regular news hasn&#039;t mentioned this hardly at all.&nbsp; I do see some references to this in that the ANA Summer Meeting [2018] is featuring a class on helping US coin dealers deal with tuff times.&nbsp; Also I think it was Jim Bisognani recently wrote that there were decent prices for proof Barber half dollars compared to 15 years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, it seems to me that decent US stuff has done nothing but go up strongly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect foreign coins of certain countries as well as some ancients, but once in a while I throw a bid out for interesting US pieces.&nbsp; I only got one major US in the past 15+ years and that was an odd-ball.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t seen any weakening of the prices for nice US material at all.&nbsp; My collection is probably 95% Certain World + Ancients &amp; 5% USA.</p><p><br /></p><p>One area of interest in which I never was able to get anything was in Liberty Seated dollars.&nbsp; I wanted to buy a nice early Seated dollar in non-fugly mint state and avoid the common bag years of 1859-O and 1860-O.&nbsp; I recall one dealer showing me a nice unc semi-PL dollar of 1844 priced at $5,000.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know at the time that this was better date!&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t slabbed as this was just around the time that slabbing became common w/ US.&nbsp; Unfortunately I bought a beautiful slabbed 1842 PCGS/NGC-63 half dollar at the same show but passed on the dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1844 dollar appear to be visually identical [from memory albeit] to a semi PL ms-63 which sold on Heritage for $14,000 in &#039;05.&nbsp; There is one 64 which brought $41K in 2013.&nbsp; Current price for a PCGS-63+ is $17K on the PCGS site.&nbsp; Thus not only have US coins not gone down at all, but prices are much higher than what they were 20 years ago.&nbsp; Granted circulated 1922 Peace dollars may not have moved much but all the better US coins have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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