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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bg35765, post: 1926237, member: 42710&quot;]I may end up with an enemy or two from this post, but I think VAMs have a poor long-term future.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think of the original poster&#039;s 5 and 7 year olds.&nbsp; They will grow up with quarters in pocket change having a different reverse.&nbsp; There will be some pennies and nickels with alternate reverses.&nbsp; If we ever eliminate the dollar bill and the dollar coins gain in popularity those will also have different presidents on them and the Sacajawea dollars have different reverses every year now too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Will those 5 and 7 year olds and their classmates care about microscopic differences between two coins?&nbsp; I doubt it.&nbsp; I&#039;m not even sure date/mintmark variety will be different enough for them to care.</p><p><br /></p><p>And on the popularity of Morgans in general, what will be interesting is how a mature series of Silver Eagles with much more distinctive varieties (proof/reverse proof/enhanced/burnished) might pull interest away from Morgans in the future.&nbsp; Keep in mind that the 5 year old will consider a 1986 Silver Eagle to be an old coin when he is an adult the same way I consider a 1940s dime to be an old coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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