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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1089040, member: 68&quot;]We&#039;re referring specifically to circulating coins.&nbsp; These are not medals or NCLT but actual coins that are used for decades up to three quarters of a century since moderns started in some countries as early as WWII.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Base metal coins only lose their face value when they are demonetized.&nbsp; Those which are redeemed are destroyed making the survivors that much scarcer.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Is a coin that was issued the year man landed on the moon or when the first home computer was sold really less &quot;historic&quot; than a coin that marks the year after the civil war?&nbsp; The great pyramid was already incredibly ancient when the very first coin was invented.&nbsp; Are you suggesting we should all be collecting something besides coins that have more &quot;history&quot; behind them?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the coins handled by the ECC are BU.&nbsp; They hold vast numbers of specific coins like the 1953 Yugoslavian aluminum coins but tht has no effect on the number of 1955 Chinese aluminum coins available.&nbsp; This coin lists for $10 but you can&#039;t find one.&nbsp; A few years ago an aluminum&nbsp; 1950-E 10 p from East Germany listed for less than $10 and you couldn&#039;t find one of them either.&nbsp; Now it lists for $1300.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Educational Coin Company has several hundred coins in vast quantities and almost all of these will prove either common or didtressingly common.&nbsp; But they&#039;re about the only source for some coins so don&#039;t expect all their coins to be common.&nbsp; These aren&#039;t the coins collectors will have trouble finding though.&nbsp; If you get out there and try to put sets together you&#039;ll find plenty of scarcities and rarities. And these rarities often sell for only a few dollars and explosive price increases might not make them any easier because they are far scarcer on the whole than the old coins.&nbsp; People saved old silver with low mintages and it just doesn&#039;t matter how many aluminum coins were made if no one bothered to save any.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as being worthless most of the old silver coins of the world have been demonetized.&nbsp; You can&#039;t spend silver pesos and rubles any longer.&nbsp; You can&#039;t even put a 1964 quarter into a pop machine because it will be rejected.&nbsp; Face value doesn&#039;t have any effect on numismatic value and neither does metallic value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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