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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 837477, member: 16510&quot;]<b>There are no really rare coins after 1953 and only a few after even 1938.</b>&nbsp; No proof sets, no mint sets, no singles.&nbsp; There are die varieties that are rare but no normal coins.</p><p>When you combine that fact with the higher mintages they become even less rare. </p><p>There is a market for this stuff but it&#039;s limited in value or price returned.</p><p>You can sell these coins but it will have a limited appeal reserved for people building sets or collection of such.</p><p>It gets worse - after 1999 95% of them, mint sets, proof sets, singles are worth on average 45% of original purchase price if that.</p><p>The mint has done the same thing the USPO, the baseball card, comics and so on have done in the past.&nbsp; They started mass producing this stuff and there is more on the market than there are people who want or need it.</p><p><b>A rare coin is always a rare coin and one that is not, well, it&#039;s not.</b></p><p><b>Nothing makes a rare coin but mintage, availibilty, popularity and supply and demand - it&#039;s really very simple.</b></p><p>Those 1916-D dimes are rare and hard to find nice in prices we can afford but yet they keep moving up.&nbsp; The only element the 1916-D dime does not have is availbility, they are availible at most every show and shop.&nbsp; So is the 09-S VDB, the 55 DDO, that 1942/1 dime, the 1972 DDO and many more are only high in price because they are eagerly sought and keep going up but are availible.</p><p>This gives you 2 things, it will cost you but not hard to find.</p><p>The 1912-S Nickle in VF-35 or above, the 27-S quarter in XF, the Barber half in in AU, the bust anything in XF, that 22-No&quot;D&quot; are rare coins across the board and <b>fit in every rare coin criteria</b>! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>All modern mint products in TPG high end slabbs are not rare even in MS-70.&nbsp; The reason is if common in slabbed MS-69 and there are million out there yet not graded (which there are) that market could and most likley will topple.</b></p><p><b>We have already seen this numerous times.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Gold and silver have never been rare, are not now, and will not be in the future.&nbsp; PM&#039;s come and go, prices rise and fall, it is recycled and mined every day and as buillion never gets used up but simply just returns.</p><p>Over and over again gold and silver will go up then it will go down.&nbsp; Anyone pinning thier hope of future profits that gold will be $2000 and silver over $30 have about the same odds, (maybe much better odds) that it will also be $700 for gold and $8 for silver or less.&nbsp; This is proved by prices in 2002 and it was not that long ago.&nbsp; I bought proof 1 onze AGE at $300 and silver for $5 for silver eagles.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><u>Books and magazines are your very best bargin in coins or anything else for that matter. The knowledge gained and enjoyed form strudy are way far and above what you can generally get from collecting alone.</u></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Don&#039;t buy coins that have problems or are in strange grades.&nbsp; Coin in MS-61 or MS-60 are generally no better than AU-58 coins, often not as good.</p><p>Buy what pleases you not what the slab says, or the market or the fad of the moment - if you carefully select problem free coins in nice grades you will be rewarded ten times over.&nbsp; <b>A coin with a problem or stange grade will haunt you each time you look at it.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Most important take your time.&nbsp; <b>It talks about five years to know anything, 10 years to know something and about 20 years to really know what you are doing 75% of the time</b> - this is true for each and everthing in life including coins, but, &quot;where&#039;s the fire&quot;?&nbsp; Talk your time and enjoy the ride cause what else you gonna do?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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