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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Omegaraptor, post: 14385092, member: 76105&quot;]I don&#039;t know if I&#039;d be bold enough to call anything undervalued - but there are some coins I&#039;d call underrated.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s usually a reason a coin is underrated, however. Half dimes as a series tend to be very reasonably priced for how scarce many dates are, yet many collectors are put off by their very small size.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1867-S $5 gold piece is a genuine rarity with fewer than 100 known examples, yet a well-circulated piece can be found for under $2k! What&#039;s the problem? Very few can afford to collect Liberty Head gold by date and mintmark, and quite a few genuinely rare dates fade into obscurity as a result.</p><p><br /></p><p>First Spouse gold coins - mintages usually a couple thousand, but they&#039;re an obscure modern bullion series no one really collects.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many 1920s mintmarked Lincoln Cents are much, much rarer than the 1909-S VDB in UNC, yet for several reasons (they don&#039;t have the same legendary historical prestige, most Lincoln collectors are satisfied with circulated coins anyway) they sell for small fractions of the price.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can go on. There are plenty of great values in the collecting world, but there are also reasons they&#039;re great values. Makes specialist collecting a whole lot easier, doesn&#039;t it? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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