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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 542587, member: 13650&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t get caught up in the hype and get so discouraged.&nbsp; Just wait.&nbsp;&nbsp; While you&#039;re waiting, grab a Redbook and look back at all the commemoratives that have come out in the past, look at their mintage figures and then look them up on ebay and see what you can get them for.&nbsp;&nbsp; They&#039;re just as nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Example 1: 1992 Columbus Silver dollar commemorative.&nbsp;&nbsp; I love this coin and I own one.&nbsp; Awesome design.&nbsp; Most everybody has long forgotten about these.&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>385,241</b> proofs minted.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can buy these for less than $40 dollars, graded, ungraded, all paperwork, all you want on ebay.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; 106,949 MS minted.&nbsp; They&#039;re just as cheap.&nbsp; &nbsp; There&#039;s buy it nows for $27 right now.&nbsp; Probably less than what they originally cost from the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Example 2:&nbsp; 2006 Ben Franklin Founding Father.&nbsp;&nbsp; Another coin I really like and own.&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Proofs were limited to only 142,000!!</b>&nbsp; Far less than this Lincoln.&nbsp;&nbsp; I picked up a PCGS PF69 DCAMEO for $42.00 locally and there was a stack of them under the one I bought.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Moral of the story is, I no longer assume that 500k is a low mintage for anything.&nbsp; It just isn&#039;t unless the numbers of people in this hobby change drastically.</p><p>&nbsp; It may seem low when things come out and there&#039;s a lot of hype and &#039;buzz&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; But a few years pass and the interest &#039;the majority of the time&#039;, wanes.&nbsp;&nbsp; I say that because it isn&#039;t always true of course.&nbsp; As seems to be the case with the Buffalo.&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>But I will bet the odds are with you that in a couple years, you&#039;ll be able to pick up any 09 Lincoln silver dollar commem, 69 graded for less than 50 bucks.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just like most everything else.</b>&nbsp;&nbsp; Despite how popular Lincoln is.&nbsp; Let the anniversary year fade away.&nbsp; Now isn&#039;t the time to buy.&nbsp;&nbsp; Save your money and buy all you want in a couple years.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Now the penny set on the other hand, limited to 50k has a chance to be big.&nbsp; I may actually invest in that offering when it comes out.&nbsp; I only believe this because the copper pennies should be extremely popular and 50k MAY be a low enough mintage to sustain long term value and maybe increase.&nbsp; Maybe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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