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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2052824, member: 112&quot;]Your question is what coins will be sought after in 50 or 100 years ? But is that really the question you mean to ask ? I say that because there is always somebody who seeks any given type of coin. But it may be a very small group. I think what your question really is, is what coins will popular among collectors in 50 or 100 years ?</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer that all we have to do is look back 50 years. How many people want to collect cents, nickels, dimes and quarters minted from 1965-1975, especially those that are not high grade ? Are there some ? Sure there are, just not very many. Why not ? Because they are not popular.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what about coins minted 100 years ago ? There&#039;s a whole lot more people who want to collect those, in circ grades and MS grades. Why ? Because they are popular.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what makes some coins popular and others not ? spirityoda mentioned rarity. OK, but coins like the 1909-S VDB cent and the 1916-D dime are anything BUT rare. On any given day you can go out and buy 10 of each in MS65, by any definition that is not rare, it&#039;s not even scarce. But yet people will fall over themselves to buy them. Why ? Because they are popular. So why are they popular ? As much as I hate to say it, because they cost a lot. And why do they cost a lot ? Because they are popular.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes it&#039;s a circular argument, nonetheless it is true. People want what everybody else wants, always have always will - it is human nature. Popularity is like a snowball, it can be small at first, but roll it along the ground and it&#039;ll get pretty dang big really fast. People will do what they see other people doing. I&#039;ve done it myself with specific coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first started collecting Netherlands ducats I could buy them anywhere from melt, which at the time was around $65, to around $250 for coins that were over 400 years old, slabbed &amp; graded, and up to MS63-64. I wrote articles about these coins, posted about them on all of the coin forums, even gave them away in contests. And I soon became my own worst enemy because within 2 or 3 years the cost of these coins I was trying to collect had doubled. Their popularity had increased. Was I responsible ? Well either that or it was one huge coincidence. These coins had gone from being coins that nobody wanted, even at melt prices, to coins that a whole lot more people wanted. And in a very short time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now even if I&#039;m wrong and I played no part in it, there is no doubt that the popularity of these coins increased very suddenly and seemingly out of the blue. So what coins will be sought after 100 years from now ? It will be those that become popular, for whatever reason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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