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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 831223, member: 13650&quot;]Smart idea.</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve mentioned this before also.&nbsp; &nbsp; They stopped producing Kennedy halves for circulation around 2002 or 2003. And they&#039;ve really started to cut back on them ever since.&nbsp;&nbsp; Total mintage each year now has been 3.4 million.&nbsp; As in 1.7 mil P&#039;s and 1.7 mil D&#039;s.&nbsp; I&#039;m pretty sure that&#039;s all the 2009s that were made too.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; They&#039;re basically just made as a token gesture for collectors now.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Now don&#039;t get me wrong.&nbsp; Almost the entire mintage will stay in high mint state condition forever.&nbsp;&nbsp; But, availability could become an issue as time goes on.&nbsp;&nbsp; How many are hoarded away in rolls like the guy I quoted has done?&nbsp; How many rolls do dealers have?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One item of note is that the older Kennedy&#039;s with much higher mintages, seem to increase in price as you go back through the decades.&nbsp; &nbsp; $5-10 is common for a single MS piece.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; <b>The point is, I don&#039;t believe these will ever go for moon money, but in 20 years, you can guarantee they will be harder to find and cost multiples more than the $2 it costs to get a hold of a P&amp;D set today.&nbsp;&nbsp; This isn&#039;t even considering the inevitable cancellation of this long lived series.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Aside from them, I&#039;d also like to nominate modern commemoratives.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; </p><p>1.)&nbsp; - Most are beautiful.&nbsp; Some are stunning. </p><p><br /></p><p>2.) - They&#039;re the most artistic coins available from this modern time period from the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.) - They are still made with precious metals</p><p><br /></p><p>4.) - Most are low mintage, some are very low mintage (especially when you split up the MS and PF numbers)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;5.)- They are not common designs that have been seen for decades</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;6.) - Each year is unique</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;7.) - Most are still VERY affordable to pretty much everyone.&nbsp; (Still sleeping.)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;8.) - If they do ever stop producing coins for circulation, I suspect the mint will still produce commemoratives for collectors.&nbsp; At which point, the entire collecting community&#039;s focus, will be funneled down to &quot;what&#039;s left?&quot; and the mint will &quot;make a mint&quot;, selling them.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect many people may try to complete sets of them if that&#039;s all that was produced annually.&nbsp; &nbsp; Many new collectors will need the &#039;old&#039; commems (90&#039;s- 2000 era).&nbsp; And they won&#039;t be able to get them from me.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m not worried about trying to sell for profits.&nbsp; But, if something I want is easier and cheaper to acquire right now, than there&#039;s no point in waiting.&nbsp; Sometimes you need to find out what &#039;that&#039; is.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;This has been a good thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Ok, now you all can move along and think about dinner or something.&nbsp; I&#039;ve still got several more commems to acquire yet.....sooo..... maybe they are lousy!?&nbsp;&nbsp; Who knows!? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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