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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 139089, member: 5629&quot;]Unfortunately, in too many cases, even in numismatics, immoral=profitable.&nbsp; if you destroy alot of&nbsp; even the low grade specimens of high volume produced coins like the U.S. cents, then you created a depletion in supply.&nbsp; The supply:demand ratio then lowers.&nbsp; As the supply:demand ratio decreases, the price increases, as will demand since the coins are no longer readily available.&nbsp; The same can be accomplished by even removing the coins en masse from the supply (hoarding).&nbsp; This can also drive up the demand and price.&nbsp; When the coins are once again release into the supply, the demand and price will once again decrease.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is why there is such a spread between even one grade point on uncirculated plastic such as NGC and PCGS.&nbsp; As coins for a certain grade become available, demand is met for those specific grades.&nbsp; But when the coins are not traded and are hoarded/collected, as new specimens become available, the price goes up, unless a hoarde is released back into supply to bring the supply:demand closer to or over a ratio of 1.</p><p><br /></p><p>:goof:&nbsp;&nbsp; But I&#039;m sure nobody here is actually interested in the economics of numismatics. We all just want to collect, not hoarde, manipulate the markets, or make investments or anything like that <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I see the copper cents as being slightly profittable in the long term, not because of the value of copper necessarily so much as the supply:demand ratio is going to go way under 1 which means big profits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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