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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 442621, member: 68&quot;]I found one in change in 1964 and sold it to a dealer for $23.&nbsp; It was a nice XF/ VF.&nbsp; The dealer said he didn&#039;t normally pay so much but he had ten customers looking for one.&nbsp; I think this was early summer and about the peak of the market.&nbsp; I remember seeing uncs offered at $35 but don&#039;t think many actually traded at this level.&nbsp; In today&#039;s money that puts a bag at about the three quarters of a million dollars level.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The market began imploding when it was announced that silver would be removed from the coinage and just kept falling until the clads started appearing in October of 1965.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most coins went close to face value with the hardest hit being the &#039;60-D sm dt cent.&nbsp; This briefly traded at over $50 per roll until it fell to less than a dime in inflation adjusted dollars by 2005.&nbsp; Indeed, until recently the &#039;60-D sm dt was the cheapest of all the US coins available in unc; even cheaper than a brand new unc Lincoln roll.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;50-D nickel bottomed out in 1995 with almost&nbsp; all the classic coins.&nbsp; It got down to $5.50 but the market was so weak you couldn&#039;t give them away so most traded at steep discounts to bid.&nbsp; This coin has recovered fairly nicely in just the last two years and nice chU examples trade for $20.&nbsp; These come nice generally so most roll quality coins will bring this price.&nbsp; While choice and gem examples are very common compared to other Jeffersons the highest grade examples are just as elusive as most others.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course $20 is only about $3.50 in 1964 money so they&#039;re still off sharply.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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