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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1477955, member: 27043&quot;]When the Devil puts on a parka, probably.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the single most misunderstood concept in...well...any collectible market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Supply AND Demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>By definition, the supply of &quot;High Grade Common Coin X&quot;...isn&#039;t going to change significantly. There&#039;s not going to be a massive influx of MS67 &#039;98 quarters any time soon, nor is there going to be a sudden rush to crack them out of slabs and melt them.&nbsp; The number available will remain, in any practical terms, level.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only thing, then, that can possibly change the &quot;value&quot; by a factor of 10 is demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you&#039;re asking, then, is when are 10 times as many people suddenly going to want an MS67 1998 Quarter in their collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Um...probably never.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mere passage of time doesn&#039;t confer any special properties upon a coin.&nbsp; The day it becomes 100, 105, or 1,298 years old, it is not suddenly &quot;worth more&quot; than it was today.&nbsp; Shoot...I recently had a big pile of rocks dug up out of my yard to put in a pool.&nbsp; Some of them were MILLIONS of years old, and I had to PAY someone to take them off my hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a gazillion quarters of its type running around, and nothing driving any significant reduction in their numbers.&nbsp; Eventually, there might be some appeal for &quot;new&quot; collectors who&#039;ve never seen the type, but then, as now, there will be a majority of them who simply wish to fill a whole in an album, and aren&#039;t willing to pay a premium they see as excessive just because &quot;some old grading company said it was an MS67&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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