What modern coins will be sought after in the future?

Of the modern age I say likely the most collectable may be the copper pre 82 cent as they have more metal value and the cent will likely be discontinued I pull mine oyt of change and put em in a jar. and I notice many of them are far better struck the. Cents of today I still see bright red ms cents of the 60s and 70s too on occasion

 

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The question is what of today's pocket change will be collected. I'm sure it will be collected but will take a very long time to be valuable. The mintages are just too high.

 

After 100 year. Every one, every coins bought today and before will be the winner. Cause the money that we have will be depreciated.

 

I'm already saving them. The problems are that I won't be around in 100 years to reap the benefits of my endeavors. And even if i were, it is very likely that they would be spent as needed, still within a time frame of not being "valuable" or sold to someone else for not all that much. in other words it is highly unlikely a person today saving (hoarding) what would turn out to be the magic coins, value-wise, would benefit from that.

 

conversely, it may be the Zincolns that end up being valuable. Sure, they have and continue to mint a number of ton of these each year... but there is little current interest in these and I think most will be used ( really used and end up rotted) so 100 years from now what supply of these will be extant? Perhaps higher quality ones will be a winning deal.

 

Honestly I think the zincolns will be far from rare people still are saving rolls of brand new ones or filling the slots in their albums. Personally I don't think any of today's coins will be rare due to the mintages

 

Unfortunately, the most valuable coins in 100 years are the coins which are fairly valuable and scarce today.

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I've got a 1970-D Washington DDO which is really scarce. It's even an AU55 because this particular variety simply was not available in US Mint Sets AND folks didn't stick rolls of these away.

The DDR counterparts are easily found with a little effort since they WERE available in US Mint Sets and 95% of the rolls out there today, have been assembled from busted up mint sets.

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1972-D No FG Kennedy Half Dollar.

These coins were produced with dies that were so abraded that they looked circulated coming off the press. The NET Result is that very few MS coins exist because folks just didn't want to bother saving circulated looking Kennedy Half dollars t5hat were, UGH!, clad!

How about 1983 Washington Quarters? An original, uncirculated roll of these will cost you better than $1,000. Same with the 1982's, 1983-D's, and 1982-D's. Why?
They weren't available in US Mint sets and nobody saved rolls of them.

If you do your HOMEWORK on Modern Coins, you'll know what to set aside and the 1st area you should explore are coins which were not available in US Mint Sets.

The 2nd area would be original uncirculated rolls of ANY CnClad issue up to around 1978.

I expect that even rolls of BiCentennial Quarters in original bank rolls would fetch a premium in todays market. Imagine 50 or 75 years from now?

 

I would guess the 1995 W ASE, wide AM cents 1998-2000, 1992 Close AM, 1969-S/1972/1983/1984 doubled die cents, No "S" proof coinage, and maybe 1996 W dime. Some of the platinum coins have tiny mintages that in PF/MS70 might command premiums.

 

Well...could be any number of things. Usually the best long term are the worst early short term. If no one is collecting today because it is too common...finding a very nice example in 100 years will be very difficult. If everyone is collecting it today, there will be many nice examples 100 years from now. If it is a great collectible today, it will probably continue...but new keys from now, in 100 years, have to be things no one puts away and saves today (creating rarity) yet there is demand for it in 100 years. Susan B Anthony dollars? Never been a big hit. Many disregarded. If for some reason these become popular in 50-100 years (higher percentage of female collectors, large desire to remember large changes in segregation (race, sex, and other), good examples could be hard to find and valuable. If single monetary standard across the globe is defined...that could change many things over time. Lots of scenarios, hard to predict...thus the crystal ball nature.

 

I wouldn't venture a guess as to what will be highly sought after.......but I would tell you to hang on to a few of these:

 

There seems to be growing interest in Eisenhower Dollars... I think those have an interesting future.

 

This looks like a doiley holder and is a collectible in its own right. There are people that will pay $100 +/- a bit just for the slab itself.

 

When I was a kid, coins were made of silver. It was amazing how quickly they disappeared when the silvers value slightly exceeded the coins denominational value. Nowadays, even though they made these in the billions, over decades, silver coins are worth many times their face value, even as only 90% silver.
In the future, the "New Silver" will be nickels and cents. Nickels are 75% copper, and cost the government more than face value to make. You can still find copper cents in change, which are worth more than face value in copper. But, cents are extremely popular to collect, and given their abundance, will remain so after they are no longer minted. So, even the zinc ones will remain collectible, especially the better looking examples. Those copper coated zinc things have all kinds of problems and 50 years or more from now, high grade ones will sell at a premium. Like Classic large cents.
Back then, if you had put away a large amount of pocket change, that you acquired at face value, you could sell it today for many times its face value. Today, you could easily put away a stash of nickels and cents acquired at face value, that your kids, or grandkids could sell for a couple dollars each.