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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1089069, member: 68&quot;]You can see this effect in countries all over the world if you just look.&nbsp; The Danish silver Krones had mintages&nbsp; as low as 992,000 and have prices up to $55 in unc.&nbsp; The very first issue in aluminum bronze has a higher mintage and sells for $5000.&nbsp; That&#039;s nearly 100 times as much and the demand is probably much lower.&nbsp; The only conclusion is the silver coin is far more common.&nbsp; Even Krones minted as late as 1959 exceed the value of the silver issues.&nbsp; Even Krones with far higher mntages made as late as 1949 are worth more than the silver issues.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This isn&#039;t just in Denmark and East Germany but it&#039;s all over the world.&nbsp; People didn&#039;t save junk coins.&nbsp; Everyone has lots of silver coins but people didn&#039;t save the base metal coins and now most of them have been melted or lost.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Those which are scarcest tend to be higher denomination and from the 40&#039;s to &#039;70&#039;s but they span the entire range right up through the 21st century.&nbsp; The tough ones tend to be cu/ ni and from countries with fairly vibrant economies.&nbsp; But they can be almost anything and even things like the old stainless Turkish coins are proving to be more difficult than I&#039;d have thought.&nbsp; I was able to find some of these in mint sets so thought they were fairly common but thy aren&#039;t apparently.&nbsp; At least the Turks are bidding the prices up over $100 for some of these issues.&nbsp; These coins are fairly easy in VF or XF since they apparently weren&#039;t melted being only stainless steel but Uncs are scarce.&nbsp; They aren&#039;t going to get more common.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been telling people for years not to expect all these to come ut of the woodwork like the older coins do when the price goes up because the moderns aren&#039;t in the woodwork.&nbsp; Moderns just weren&#039;t saved.&nbsp; And that is just as true in the US as it is in Mongolia or New Caledonia.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone can look at the piles of junk that come into a coin shop and marvel that there&#039;s a market for all of it.&nbsp; But it takes a collectors to poke through the piles and figure out what isn&#039;t there.&nbsp; It takes a collector filling holes to show that any coin is rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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