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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jetshack, post: 442143, member: 11725&quot;]I&#039;m getting confused by all of these similar threads...&nbsp; I made a point in a different one which bring pointing out here.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re entirely right... There has to be an event which occurs which causes the spike to happen...&nbsp; Knowing WHEN these spikes are going to occur is of course impossible.&nbsp; But knowing that they WILL occur can sometimes be determined.</p><p><br /></p><p>I strongly suspect that we&#039;re seeing the last days of the Jefferson nickel.&nbsp; The base metals are too expensive to continue producing them with their current composition.&nbsp; The U.S. Mint WILL be changing the planchet.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t know when, but I suspect it isn&#039;t too far in the distant future.&nbsp; Now what does will this event have in regards to the collectability of the series?&nbsp; More than likely not much long term, BUT I suspect in the short term after the event you&#039;ll see a substantial price run up on the upper end coins of the series (Well struck MS examples with mintages of under 10 million is where I&#039;m buying (and right now they&#039;re super cheap)).</p><p><br /></p><p>One last point FS is not an &quot;arbitrary strike characteristic&quot;.&nbsp; It is how the coin was designed to be minted.&nbsp; Well struck early examples are very tough to find.&nbsp; I&#039;ve attempted a FS set and it is in total disarray.&nbsp; I think of arbitrary strike characteristics as being die cracks and the like (which I don&#039;t actively collect... If I run across one roll searching I keep them and then sell them on eBay.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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