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Message:: [QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 818239, member: 18157"]A while back, I reviewed a number of Red Book price guides going back to 1953. I plotted coin prices over time for a few series. One trend I noticed was that there seemed to be a price spike for most coins in a series around the seventy (70) year mark. In 2005/2006, I found I could buy OBW rolls of silver coins from the late '50s and early '60s for melt! ...which I did! They've seen a pretty nice price jump due to commodity prices...but I expect to see another, even greater, price jump in the next 10-20 years. That ship has pretty much sailed so I've been looking for the next "sleeper"...which is why I've been spending time lately cherrypicking the very highest grades of early ('60s and '70s) clad coinage.  These coins have been the "red-headed step children" from Day #1. Clad coins don't hold their value like silver coins and there just weren't as many premium, business-strike clad coins saved.  This might be an area worth investigating for some of the younger collectors...2035 is just around the corner! (2035 - 1965 = 70) :thumb:[/QUOTE]