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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1089120, member: 68&quot;]Thanks for the link.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re missing the point.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They aren&#039;t selling 1924 or 1959 Danish Krones by the thousand or even a single piece. You can&#039;t call them up for a 1983 Irish 50P because they won&#039;t have a single one.&nbsp; There are hundreds of thousands of US and world moderns and they have&nbsp; perhaps a few hundred in large quantity.&nbsp; If you look at the list you&#039;ll see some patterns to what they do have; they are newer and they are very low denomination.&nbsp; As I said the scarcities tend to be older and they tend to be high denomination which generally means copper nickel.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What they have isn&#039;t important.&nbsp; What&#039;s in the piles of coins that come into coin shops isn&#039;t important.&nbsp; It&#039;s what ECC and coin dealers don&#039;t have that&#039;s important.&nbsp; And what&#039;s not in those piles of coins are most of the high denomination coins of the US and the world made in the last 75 years.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>These are just simple facts.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t believe it try putting together something real easy like a Polish modern aluminum set.&nbsp; Ha!!! You could work on it 50 years and you won&#039;t find them all and the prices will be sky high by the time you get close.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there&#039;s a connection.&nbsp; It was the year man landed on the moon as the world watched.&nbsp; Remember &quot;One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind&quot;?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fine.&nbsp; So I guess the 1866 half dollars aren&#039;t collectible at all and should just be turned in for scrap.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I hear people say this all the time and without exception they have piles of whatever they&#039;d rather have and not a single one of the coin in question.&nbsp; They not only don&#039;t have it but usually have never even seen one.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying tht an &#039;50-E is necessarily more desirable than a $20 gold piece, I&#039;m saying it&#039;s far far far more scarce.&nbsp; Collect what you want to but ignoring moderns doesn&#039;t make them more common.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m referring to the mainland China 5f piece.&nbsp; These were probably kindda low mintage but it&#039;s not listed.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So if I buy an 1804 dollar for $3,000,000 I can always get the $23 melt value for it no matter what happens. This doesn&#039;t sound like a deal to me.&nbsp; If I buy $3,000,000 worth of circulating 5c coins they&#039;ll always be worth at least $4,000,000.&nbsp; Neither of these plans seem to make much sense to me.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to buy coins I like and understand and to me clads are about the most fun you can have.&nbsp; They&#039;re probably the most bang for the buck too, but who cares.&nbsp; If my roll of Wyoming quarters doesn&#039;t go up in a few years I can spend it and get my whole $10 back less inflation.&nbsp; If my 1986 Irish 50P ever crashes I&#039;ll only be out a couple dollars but until then it&#039;s still worth $150.&nbsp; It will &quot;always&quot; be worth 50p.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t matter if you put it in or not since it won&#039;t accept it.&nbsp; Imagine that.&nbsp; In the event of a deflationary depression that $23 protection for the 1804 dollar might just disappear.&nbsp; It might not even be worth a dollar.&nbsp; I bet I wouldn&#039;t have trouble spending clad.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe you&#039;re into the wrong coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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