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<p>[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 26705778, member: 73489"]Those of you who collect the coins mentioned in the article above....did what they said MIGHT happen in fact DID happen ?</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance: <i>"Take Roosevelt dimes, for example. The 1949-S and the 1955-P, D and S are probably the commonest coins in the series today in circulated condition, whereas before the melts they were the scarcest. Being worth a premium, they were saved. In circulated condition, the new key may be the 1946-D or something like that.''</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><b><i>Did you really have a "flip" where the 1949-S and 1955-P/D/S went from scarce to common becaus they weren't melted ? Is this true ? Is it an outlier ?</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>It's an entirely different level but it would be like 1924 Saints being melted if gold went to $7,000 an ounce....</b>and then in a few years you find the remaining 1924's selling at big premium in MS-65 because they saw a huge melting of the inventory.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 26705778, member: 73489"]Those of you who collect the coins mentioned in the article above....did what they said MIGHT happen in fact DID happen ? For instance: [I]"Take Roosevelt dimes, for example. The 1949-S and the 1955-P, D and S are probably the commonest coins in the series today in circulated condition, whereas before the melts they were the scarcest. Being worth a premium, they were saved. In circulated condition, the new key may be the 1946-D or something like that.'' [B][/B][/I] [B][I]Did you really have a "flip" where the 1949-S and 1955-P/D/S went from scarce to common becaus they weren't melted ? Is this true ? Is it an outlier ?[/I][/B] [B]It's an entirely different level but it would be like 1924 Saints being melted if gold went to $7,000 an ounce....[/B]and then in a few years you find the remaining 1924's selling at big premium in MS-65 because they saw a huge melting of the inventory.[/QUOTE]
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