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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2492141, member: 78153&quot;]I don&#039;t buy any US coins. so I don&#039;t track prices that closely, though I do occasionally check any number of US series as a result of reading posts on coin forums such as this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my series, Heritage sold installment three of the Rudman Mexican collection last Thursday.&nbsp; This sale was very weak in my opinion while the one in January was quite strong, even though this one had the most significant rarities from his pillar coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than what I described to you, I don&#039;t know what else explains it.&nbsp; There are certainly a lot more collectors for DBSE halves because it is both a US coin and bought for type sets but there still aren&#039;t likely to be that many near its current price at one time. </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is somewhat scarce both as a date and type but since most are type collectors and at least 275 exist (I don&#039;t remember the exact number), it isn&#039;t really that hard to buy, except in grade.&nbsp; Anyone who has the money can still buy it on short notice, as I have seen it on both dealer websites and auctions without looking hard at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing to consider for two coins in these grades is that apparently a substantial percentage of potential buyers aren&#039;t interested any more if it doesn&#039;t fit their narrow quality standards, regardless of the coins actual merits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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