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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 7389993, member: 13650&quot;]The only index I care about is &quot;what can I buy a coin for on ebay&quot; and lately it isn&#039;t pretty.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was just telling someone the other day I hope coin shows come back because anything I&#039;m looking at that I need, which is some obscure stuff now, can&#039;t be found below the major TPG price guides.&nbsp; &nbsp; Some may be slightly below or right at but there seems to be huge premiums on rarer, lower grade stuff.&nbsp;&nbsp; A VF that might book for $55 on the price guide might be $110 on ebay.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes stuff is priced hundreds of dollars above price guide.&nbsp; And then I get notifications in my e-mail that stuff I looked at yesterday is no longer available because someone purchased.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Does the index include trade dollars or 1840 No drapery dimes or half dimes?&nbsp;&nbsp; The US Mint sold 5x their normal amount of gold coins to begin this year and 20% more silver bullion than this time last year.&nbsp; Biggest year since 1999.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not a big correlation but it&#039;s clear that demand is high despite high premiums and a $800 shield with rays nickel you look at today may not be there tomorrow.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; To me, I don&#039;t care if a $14k coin dropped to $12k this year.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s too far out of my league and the &quot;rare coin market&quot; is full of these coins that most on this forum never look at.</p><p>&nbsp; I personally just bought a high MS, 1918 Illinois centennial commemorative and sent it in for grading.&nbsp;&nbsp; They only made 100k of them and I got it for under $150.&nbsp; If nobody wants them or is looking at them then it was the perfect time to buy.&nbsp;&nbsp; Why would I want to pay more for the same thing?&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s a gorgeous coins designed by George T. Morgan and John R Sinnock, the guy that designed the Franklin half.&nbsp; &nbsp; I can&#039;t believe there aren&#039;t 100k collectors in Illinois that wouldn&#039;t want one.&nbsp; &nbsp; I think the classics are awesome and that&#039;s not my main collecting focus at all.&nbsp;&nbsp; But, you have a lot of in the moment collectors that have to have everything 2021 during 2021 and then 2022 rolls around and nobody cares about 2021 stuff anymore unless its something special.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; No wonder classic commems don&#039;t get attention.&nbsp; &nbsp; People are chasing limited edition ASEs every year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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