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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 333119, member: 68&quot;]This is such a tough call and almost comes down to the flip of a coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of what will determine the most actively collected coin hasn&#039;t even occurred yet and is largely unforeseeable.&nbsp; The cent will probably be discontinued and destroyed within a few years.&nbsp; Many won&#039;t be turned in because it won&#039;t be worth the trouble but most of these will get tossed in the garbage.&nbsp; There are an awful lot of pennies out there in unc and there will be a lot of increased demand when it&#039;s discontinued.&nbsp; People will take care of them.&nbsp; Nickels will meet a similar fate.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed, so far in the future there&#039;s little doubt all these coins will have been recalled and destroyed.&nbsp; There probably won&#039;t be any coins any longer so collecting won&#039;t be a mass hobby.&nbsp; The demand will come from various scientific specialties and from curators and the like.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>While much of the future may be dominated by something like the quarter or nickel when you get so far out then I suspect that metalurgists and anthropologists will have the greatest interest in the metals used in the silver and gold coins.&nbsp; By that time they&#039;ll be able to tell a great deal about where each of the constituent parts of a coin were mined.&nbsp; It will be useful information for studying current and ancient mining. Copper isn&#039;t recycled sufficiently to accomplish this with current coin and nickel will be of relatively little interest since records exist and there will be less interest in this era, probably.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The early eagles were made from the strategic stockpile and some of this could have come from very old sources.&nbsp; The newer eagles should be from more diverse but generally newer sources, I&#039;d guess. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s really a crap shoot predicting so very far in the future.&nbsp; Remember the weatherman misses the next day quite often and has huge computers working on nothing else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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