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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1636608, member: 4626&quot;]Lol... low mintage P &amp; D ATBs... too bad there are no such things since they&#039;re minted in the hundreds of millions.&nbsp; The fact that everyone&#039;s hoarding them is a good sign that they won&#039;t go up in value, because everyone will have them.&nbsp; There&#039;s a reason why the 1950D Jefferson nickel, the rarest date in the series, is still only worth $20 to $25 even in uncirculated condition.&nbsp; Everyone saved them, so they&#039;re not hard to get.</p><p><br /></p><p>If trends in coins show us anything, the coins that take off long term are the coins that people <i>weren&#039;t</i> buying when they first came out.&nbsp; S-mint ATBs will go up, sure... in the short term, but eventually they&#039;re just won&#039;t be any buyers left who want them and don&#039;t have them, and there&#039;s MILLIONS of them minted.&nbsp; THEY ARE NOT RARE, AND NEVER WILL BE.&nbsp; They&#039;re double issue price now because the hype is still there... but that will die off eventually, and eventually everyone who wants them will have them, and there won&#039;t be any more growth potential, and prices will plummet.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t a guess, I&#039;ve seen it happen, with coins with far lower mintages than these S-minted ATBs.&nbsp; 2005 Marine Corps Dollar, for example; they were going for several times their issue price when the mint ran out, but now you can easily get one for about $70, less than twice its initial issue price 8 years ago.&nbsp; And they minted way less than a million of them.&nbsp; And yes, when collectors have piles of these S-minted ATBs that they held on to because they thought they&#039;d be valuable... and the price plummets, because the supply exceeds the demand, because everyone who cared about owning them already bought them... yes, eventually they&#039;ll be forced to spend them as they&#039;ll eventually drop to about 25 cents each.&nbsp; Rare collectibles go up in value when people DON&#039;T save them.&nbsp; You can cash in on the hype if you&#039;re quick about it.&nbsp; But if you think these will go up forever you&#039;re deluding yourself.&nbsp; How valuable are those Barr notes everyone saved?&nbsp; A coin minted in the millions only for the sake of collectors will NEVER be a rare collectible, by the very definition of the word &quot;rare.&quot;&nbsp; They&#039;re already minting as many as anyone who cares about them are buying.&nbsp; There is zero long term growth potential there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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