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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Richard01, post: 95153, member: 2700&quot;]I have to disagree with most of this! To state that clad coins will have no value because the base metal is not rational. Base metal has never been the driving factor on big prices, rarity has, and there are a number of moderns that have a fair amount of rarity going for them, hence they have high prices. Collecting is not about bullion, but about condition and rarity. An old dime has a whopping 50 cents of silver, but if it was RARE and is in great CONDITION, it may be worth thousands. So, are we to believe that the difference in value of base metal of a half dollar on that dime is what makes it important and collectible? Makes no sense. Look around the clad world and there is a lot of conditional rarity, as well as relative actual rarity. Sac&#039;s are a great example! They are a circulating dollar coin with about 3,000,000 minted per year for the last 3 years or so. That is a rare coin by most any standard, and will become valuable over time. How valuable? Well, who knows, but early indications are that high grade recent years have tripled or quadrupled in value in a couple of years! Coin collecting will not go away, or even be damaged because of coins being clad common metals... that makes no sense. Some day, today&#039;s common coins will be the 100 year old collectibles. Remember, in the late 1800&#039;s a flying eagle penny was just common pocket junk. Not worth collecting right? No silver, no gold... just junk.</p><p>Man, I wish I had a few dozen rolls of BU&#039;s today saved up by some junk collector![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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