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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;World Colonial, post: 2485644, member: 78153&quot;]My opinion is a many collect the FDR (silver) dime, though I have no direct evidence of it except the TPG population reports.&nbsp; The reason the prices are low on these examples is because the collector base is not large enough to support the supply at higher prices.&nbsp; Most collectors are spending their money somewhere else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Going back to the initial post, I have seen similar ideas and questions raised for any number of coins.&nbsp; The idea invariably is because a coin is (supposedly) scarce or the person likes and thinks a particular coin or series is &quot;under appreciated&#039;, it should be worth a lot more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, there are&nbsp; a lot of &quot;rare&quot; and actually rare coins.&nbsp; All of them cannot and won&#039;t sell for high prices because the overwhelming percentage have absolutely nothing to distinguish them other than their (supposed) scarcity.&nbsp; The South African collectors I know, they invariably think that every scarce and rare coin in the South African series should be worth more or &quot;moon money&quot;, despite the fact that it has an outsized proportion of unusually scarce coins and would leave almost nothing affordable for the average collector to buy.</p><p><br /></p><p>For actually common but widely collected US coins and series, its reasonable to expect that a coin will increase substantially in isolation (in a particular grade or as a die variety as examples) but not across the board.&nbsp; Believing this even as the collector base is becoming poorer (and will almost certainly continue to do so) contradicts economic common sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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