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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 990339, member: 15309&quot;]I was a teenager in the 80&#039;s and my coin collection consisted of circulated Mercury Dimes.&nbsp; What I do know is that the crash of 1989 had nothing to do with conditional rarities.&nbsp; The coin boom of the late 80&#039;s was a perfect storm starting with the TPG&#039;s, a sluggish national economy after the stock market crash of 1987, and the entrance of Wall Street money into the coin market via brokerage houses such as Merril Lynch.&nbsp; In fact, I would be willing to bet that most conditional rarities faired much better than their common counterparts during the crash.&nbsp; Furthermore, I don&#039;t know what you mean by grade fell apart.&nbsp; The dealers didn&#039;t want to buy them back because all of the dealers and collectors knew the prices were artificially inflated.&nbsp; The people who got taken were the investors who listened to a guy like &quot;Bud Fox&quot; from a brokerage house who cold called them with an incredible investment opportunity.&nbsp; The TPG&#039;s were in their infancy at that time and if confidence in the TPG&#039;s had been severely affected, they would have crashed along with the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should make it clear.&nbsp; I don&#039;t agree that it is wise to pay $4K for the coin in the OP.&nbsp; There are certainly a few other MS68 FS 2010-D Jefferson Nickels out there and the set price is clearly an attempt to exploit registry fever.&nbsp; Consider that I paid less than $3K for my 1943-P Doubled Eye Jefferson Nickel NGC MS67 5FS which has a population of (2/0) which is a conditional rarity in it&#039;s own right.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickels/JeffersonNickel1943-PNGCMS675FSD-6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>But if you don&#039;t recognize that the coin pictured above deserves to be worth more money than the one pictured below, then I don&#039;t know what to say to you.&nbsp; The coin below is a PCGS MS65 Doubled Eye 1943-P Jefferson.&nbsp; Now I know what you are going to say, that is two grade differences.&nbsp; However, PCGS is almost a full grade more conservative in their grading of Jefferson Nickels so essentially, these two coins are one grade apart.&nbsp; To me, the differences in quality are very obvious and the first coin is worth much more than the second.&nbsp; What say you?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Jefferson%20Nickels/Jefferson%20Nickels%20CT%20Contest/JeffersonNickel1943-PPCGSMS65DDODou.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So while the $4K price tag of the OP coin is a little over the top, I would value the coin well over $1K .&nbsp; The problem with these modern coins is that the collector base is not the same as the classic coins.&nbsp; Look at me for example.&nbsp; I am a Jefferson Nickel aficionado but my collection stops at 1964.&nbsp; Another problem is that there are no historical auction prices because they coins were just minted so pricing becomes extremely difficult.&nbsp; I don&#039;t like the coin at that price but I just think your reasoning is flawed.&nbsp; I agree with Doug that conditional rarities have and always will drive significant price premiums and I agree that they should.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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