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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ranchhand, post: 556133, member: 2622&quot;]as others have said; supply and demand.</p><p>Mintages do not always = $</p><p>I have a proof half dime with a mintage of less than 250 or so... can&#039;t remember off the top of my head. worth a couple of hundred $. seems crazy, but thats the way it is. not&nbsp; a lot of demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the early commemorative series as a whole, the columbian is as common as can be, and a great deal many of them ended up as pocket pieces or where tossed into circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would argue that any NICE looking Columbian is worth picking up, even in the lower grades. Most of the high grade (64-67) Columbian I have seen had very limited eye appeal. in other words they where ugly. I am, sure a lot of them where picked up just to give someones registry a bump.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems like the market may back me up; I have seen nicely toned, graded columbians in low unc (62 or so) go for multiples of their book value. Eye appeal can trump technical grades in the columbians IMO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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