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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8216854, member: 115909&quot;]It’s true these coins will not ever see circulation..</p><p><br /></p><p>But I think a very small minority will be lost/damaged as well. With these coins one big scratch is enough to make it bullion.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins will need to maintain their 69/70 grades over time which is surprisingly difficult for ungraded coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Example: My grandma bought mint &amp; proof sets from the 1950s to the 1980s and even though she left them in a tub in her closet the coins are not MS69/70 anymore just due to the many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or maybe a huge silver price increase will make people considering melting them far in the future (unlikely but theoretically possible).</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all I think modern coins will hold value at the 69/70 grade and anything less will be bullion and I think the same will apply in the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are plenty examples of coins not intended for circulation that held value long term.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a look at the $50 Panama Pacific Commemorative. It cost $100 to buy one (a lot of money back then!) so it wouldn’t have made sense to circulate it as a $50 coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or the old state commemoratives!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1442397[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin sold for $1 back in 1925 when it was for sale. Even though it’s only worth 50 cents face value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet these coins now sell for hundreds in BU grades or thousands of dollars in the highest GEM BU grades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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