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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prethen, post: 44066, member: 1756&quot;]I realize that coins with killer eye-appeal, truly rare, semi-key, key, and 69/70 stuff is going for stronger and stronger money, but what the heck is going on with the Type market?</p><p><br /></p><p>In my myopic view of the market, when viewing current price lists and dealers&#039; inventories, it appears that Type coins might actually be softening rather than strengthening with the supposedly growing collector base. Yes, collectors first start off in moderns, but where&#039;s all the action in the mid-grade circulated (VF+) Type coins? I&#039;ve seen some relatively nice stuff in Seated material (not dollars though, can&#039;t find many of those), Large Cents, and even halfway decent 2-cent material going for around wholesale to the public. To be honest, I&#039;m afraid to even look at eBay because those prices are likely even lower than what I&#039;ve been seeing because those auctions tend to go to the bottom feeders (but not always). To add salt to these &quot;wounds&quot;, in large part, most type series prices have barely budged in the past few years or so. </p><p><br /></p><p>I keep hearing that dealers&#039; inventories are &quot;tight&quot; and that there&#039;s no material. Yet, funny enough, when I do see material, I don&#039;t see the pricing pressure. Is there any pricing pressure on circulated 19th century type coins? Are they really so common that there&#039;s so much supply to cover the puny demand? I&#039;ve often wondered at the true surviving numbers of some of the most common Seated stuff, along with 3CN and 2-centers and it boggles the mind that there really is still a bunch of supply out there....or is it just a virtually non-existent demand? What makes it more interesting is that the surviving number of non-problem coins and non-harshly cleaned coins is probably much smaller than most would believe.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m curious as to your thoughts on this, even if it&#039;s an area you don&#039;t care about, you might have some insight based on recent personal experience. Modern crap is doing gangbusters (apparently) but what&#039;s happening with the circulated 19th century stuff? Old hat? Not enough people care any more? They&#039;d rather buy it for melt or less? </p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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