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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mr. Coin Lover, post: 993765, member: 16060&quot;]I was just wondering about a few things in the hobby currently and wonder if others will agree or disagree with me.</p><p><br /></p><p>First 2010 pales in comparison to 2009 as far as excitement goes. I think the&nbsp; &#039;09 Lincoln Cent started it all off with the four new designs, commemorative dollars, and then the Chronicle Set.&nbsp; I remember all the posts about which designs people liked and those they disliked.&nbsp; Remember the prices those first rolls of the Lincoln Cent were going for initially on ebay? I would think they were probably the most flipped coins ever produced by the mint. Day of the Chronicle sale start the mint&#039;s computers crashed.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was the first year the ASE proof was not made, alot of collectors in my opinion rightfully so got very upset.&nbsp; Looks like this is going to be carried through &#039;10. The ASE burnished dye (or whatever you want to call it) was not produced after only a three year run, and it looks as though it is going to continue in at least &#039;10.&nbsp;&nbsp; There were also other things new like the &#039;09 quarters and the changes to what we knew as the Sacagewea Dollar.&nbsp; There were also other things that didn&#039;t get made if I remember correctly in the gold coin arena.&nbsp; If they did get made the mintages were low and/or way off from their normal release dates. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then HSN sold thousands of coins stating the mint would not be making any more satin finish coins, stated there was a press release by the mint stating this that I could never find.&nbsp; Guess the mint changed its mind on that one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;10 quarters are very ho-hum I think by current collectors, but more importantly new collectors as well. The &#039;09 mintages on all or most coins for circulation were down compared to previous years. I may be wrong, but these low mintages resulted in many mre threads last year as compared to this year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second thing I feel has changed are coin prices&nbsp; on ebay.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying a very good price cannot still be found on ebay on occasion, but I seem to notice changes.&nbsp; It appears to me the number of &quot;Buy It Now&quot; coins has definitely increased, I suppose this is due to ebay&#039;s increase in charges.&nbsp; Starting toward the last part of last year it really started to be noticeable to me a coin could be purchased for less from online coin dealers than ebay on a routine basis. Ebay is still the best place I think to buy a common coin to complete a set, say a &#039;62 D Lincoln cent or whatever.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last year and this year as well PM prices have created alot of attention.&nbsp; What I notice about this is with&nbsp; all the attention to silver and gold an opportunity has evolved to get some non precious metal coins at very good prices, like Large Cents and Half Cents.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t had the opportunity to check how Buffalo Nickels and V Nickels are doing.</p><p><br /></p><p>One coin I have read about some in &#039;10 that is quitely getting more attention than previous years is the three cent silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>I may totally or partially wrong on this, curious if others see it this way or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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