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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3902364, member: 112&quot;]Not exactly. Those P mint dimes you mentioned, there&#039;s demand for those, there&#039;s demand for all of the others (common coins) too. But given how many common coins sell, and it&#039;s a whole lot, it would be hard, and inaccurate, to say there isn&#039;t much demand for them. But rather that there is a whole lot of demand for them ! But the prices are still low even though there is a whole lot of demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>But popular coins, the expensive ones, how many of them sell ? Not many, it&#039;s only a fraction of the number of common coins that sell. So it would be pretty easy, and accurate, to say there is no where near the amount of demand for them (the popular coins) that there is for the common coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is why I say demand isn&#039;t the same thing as popularity. You can have demand and still get low prices. But if you want high prices, you&#039;ve got to have popularity. And scarcity, supply, low availability, has little to do with it. This is proven by the fact that coins with many times the rarity (of popular coins), but that are not popular, do not bring those high prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can call it supply and demand all ya want, but it&#039;s just not as accurate as it could be, there&#039;s a better word. And that word is popularity. Popularity describes something that demand simply doesn&#039;t.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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