The next big craze: any predictions?

dan1ecu

Hi, Everybody -

If we could know in advance what's going to be hot in a year, we'd be lucky. Right now, DMPL Morgans are popular (at least that's what the run up in prices suggests). "Rainbow toned" coins command quite a premium compared to what they've sold for in the past.

What do you think is the next thing in numismatics that people will go crazy over? Gold coins? Eighteenth century type? Cameo proof Barbers? FBL Franklins?

What's everybody going to want (and be willing to pay big money for) in a year? Of course, we can't really know, but it's fun to predict...

What do you thinK?

Dan

jbsteven

antique auto license plates. already started my hoard.

jbsteven

ohhhhhh you mean coins......

wild guess.................Franklins

clackamas

2004 mint sets are going through the roof. I just sold 5 on ebay for $32.50 each.

tlhoy

My guess: Darkside Coins.

Glenn

mgoodm3

Colorized proof Morgans!

MORGANHUNTER2

colorized morgans- Let us pray that the morgan mint folks can't read this site.

jb- what happened to you on Sunday- I agree with you on the vintage plates- did you see what they are selling for on ebay!

The next craze- collecting used hard hats from major construction sites around the world.

dthigpen

Holed Coins!

TUMUSS

MS/Two centers, Modern Commems will continue to rise, and....(I'm not going to tell you the last one - Buying all I can...don't need even more competition .)

RYK

Leasing coins. You would like a 1913 Lib nickel but not liquid enough to scrounge up $1.5 M? Rent the coin for 6 months for 10% the value of the coin plus the cost of a bond to insure it and you. You get to add your name to the pedigree chain and show it off to your coin and non-coin friends. Heck, you can even have a press release about it in your hometown. Meanwhile, the owner of the coin gets to generate some income from it. You heard it here first.

Wolf359

When PCGS joins the bandwagon, VAMS will probably soar in price.

coppercoins

Actually I think something regarding the new nickels. Something has to give and they will come up with something really attractive with the new buffalo nickel that will sell like hotcakes.

KollectorKing

How about grading proof/mint sets in their orginal holders or is that being done and I've been in the dark

nwcs

If I knew, I'd hoard them and not tell anyone and sell at the right time.

dthigpen

<< <i>How about grading proof/mint sets in their orginal holders or is that being done and I've been in the dark >>



Eh, I don't like this idea. GSA holders are about as far as I'll 'go'.

mrearlygold

Coins from Zimbabwe


Nah

Tom

kieferscoins

Sample slabs.

Cameron Kiefer

dthigpen

<< <i>Sample slabs.

Cameron Kiefer >>



Get Real.

CharlesDarwin

Ultra-moderns, Ultra-moderns, Ultra-moderns! All the new coin designs will have the public in a frenzy!

Oh...and I wasn't going to tell anyone this...but Canadian coins are sure to go through the roof!

KollectorKing

Slabbing of counterfeit coins

Neptune

antique auto license plates. already started my hoard.

You been hiding in cave? They have been hot for a long time.

What's going to hot - silver coins.

Russ

<< <i>Sample slabs.

Cameron Kiefer >>



Didn't see that one coming.

Russ, NCNE

Baley

When PCGS joins the bandwagon, Overton and Browning varieties will probably soar in price.

AValde

Wooden Replica of 1933 Saint Gaudens, 150% Gold plated. One of a kind for 19.95 limit 5 per customer please, we need to share it with everybody.

DHeath

For something to become a craze, there has to be an adequate supply. The most likely candidates are Peace dollars, Washington quarters 1940-1959, and Franklins. JMO

OnlyBuffalos

"When PCGS joins the bandwagon, Overton and Browning varieties will probably soar in price."

Would this not take too much time to do thereby reducing the productivity of the graders?

airplanenut

<< <i>"When PCGS joins the bandwagon, Overton and Browning varieties will probably soar in price."

Would this not take too much time to do thereby reducing the productivity of the graders? >>

Not really--they can get one guy to do just VAMs. For instance, all attributions, as far as I know, at NGC go through David Lange. He doesn't grade the coin, and the graders don't attribute it. The only possibly hinderance to the graders is if they see a VAM and have to make note of it, so it can be researched.

Jeremy

MFH

Ten million collectors of Statehood Commemorative Quarters discover Early Commemoratives and prices go thru the roof.

foodude

FBL Franklins

wild guess.................Franklins

Cool, but just the nice ones

ccex

<< <i>antique auto license plates. already started my hoard.

You been hiding in cave? They have been hot for a long time.

What's going to hot - silver coins. >>



Silver coins going through the roof would be fine by me. I'd also like to see historically imprtant old personal computers or hard drives appreciate in collector value. Knowing my luck, though, I'll predict that the next big craze in coins is something I don't collect, like fully struck Washington Quarters or full step Jefferson nickels, which are much easier to promote, grade, and ship than Commodore PETs, Apple ///s, and CMI full height MFM hard drives.

For those of you in the dark, "MFM" does not refer to superlative monster toning, but to modified frequency modulation, the hard disk standard from about 1980 through 1987. I wanted to name my daughter "ESDI", which sounded pleasant enough to my wife until I told her this was an acronym for the obsolete "Enhanced Storage Device Interface", and she imagined our daughter as the laughingstock of the playground when word got out. I defended the name with the logic of my college statistics professor, who named his dog "Chi Squared" because it was a better name than "standard normal"

Still, I haven't satisfactorily answered the question as to which coins will be the next big craze. If I believed in marketing, I'd bet on something common enough to promote like modern commemoratives (slabbed in original mint packaging) or slabbed U.S. bullion coins, despite the eccentricities of many of us collectors.

mrearlygold

<< <i>Wooden Replica of 1933 Saint Gaudens, 150% Gold plated. One of a kind for 19.95 limit 5 per customer please, we need to share it with everybody. >>





Yes, created from authentic wood from the furniture of King Farouks estate.


Hurry hurry gather round, today's special, everybody's favorite, for you only!


Tom

LincolnCentMan

V Nickels....

David

Baley

Ten million collectors of Statehood Commemorative Quarters discover Early Commemoratives and prices go thru the roof.

or, even, if (when) a smaller number of collectors of any new common coins discover old, scarce and rare coins, prices could (will.. have been?) increase

TonedPeaceNut

If the state quarter people discover MODERN commems -- which is more likely a coin they would turn to -- watch out. Some modern commems have the lowest MS mintages in the past century of the mint making coins.


TPN

michael

pre 1916 ms and proof coinage

michael

Elcontador

David, with few exceptions, V Nickels in supergrade (MS 66 & better) have gone up quite a bit in the last several years. Not so re proofs, because they seem to always be available in most all grades.

oreville

You will not believe this:

Circulated wheat cents will double, probably even triple in value from 2 1/2 - 3 cents each to 8 to 9 cents each in the next 2 years!! A roll will go from $1.25- $1.50 to $4.00 to $4.50 within 2 years. Just wait until the TV marketers try to market them!

The last affordable classic coin of the 20th century.

I called it right the last 5-6 years by stockpiling as many unopened obw wheat rolls I could of the 1955-D date/mm at $2.00 a roll from Virg Marshall as well as other date in the 1940's and 1950's for as little as $1.90 a roll. Everyone laughed at me then since these rolls had not moved up in price for 35 years. They were going nowhere.

Just ask Wayne Herndon; he remembers me back in 1999 buying some of his best rolls I could get my hands on.

CCNugett

Hello Everyone,

I would think people will start looking at the Indian Head Quarter Eagles.This series has very low mintage.with only one key date.They are still very attractive at the AU-MS 60 condition.The cost is around $160.00-$175.00 a pop.A great investment and fun coin to collect,especially with the rising price of Gold.I predict the set will at least double in value over the next 5 years.
Also, I will continue my quest for the entire set of slabbed Morgans in MS 63 or better grades.I'm only 7 coins away.There may be a few of the tougher dates that I will have to buy in lower grades,but I have the 1895-o and 1893 CC in AU condition.I have $1000.00 invested in both of these coins and PCGS has upgraded their price Over $500.00 each in just one year alone.The 1895-0 is valued at $12,000.00 in M/S 60.A/u grade is at $1750.00.Alot of profit potential in this coin.
One more item that I have bought in excess is the Carson City Morgans.I have over 30 GSA coins that have been graded by NGC and they graded MS/64.The Carson City minted Morgans will be a very hot item from now on.I noticed a collection of just the CC Morgans on E-bay that was selling at $5600.00 and the reserve had not yet been met and 4 days to go on the auction,20 bidders at this price.Of coarse there were 2 1889 CC coins in this collection,but the coins were not even slabbed,just in a plastic holder in the shape of Nevada.

Good luck to all !!! P.s. The Sacagawea Dollars aren't too shabby!

TOM

morgannut2

I really think it's up to PCGS. If they begin to do Morgan VAMs, even the top 50 and make a registry for them the prices will triple in the top grades IMHO. I thought that the rare 1878 Morgan Proofs would take off next year but I was wrong. A 1878 Proof 7TF rev of '79 in PR-64 just got bid to $135,000 in the Richmond collection---about $100,000 more than I thought it might go to next year!!! I also am buying any wheat rolls I can find at estate auctions---how long can the Coin Vault sell colorized state quarters? And the obvious choice is PCGS MS-61-63 Gold Saints if the value of the dollar goes down much more, next year. If Morgan's go up much more Peace $1's have to get some interest because it's a short set.

SNMAN

Hi,

I think that the modern nickels will be big!! US Mint is no longer selling the 2004 nickel 6-coins series. (I should have ordered some along with the mint sets)

With the new designs next several years, what do you think??

snman

mrearlygold

Nice dipped bright white coins. Toning will be considered ugly and these coins, especially the rainbow colored ones will sell for half bid prompting many to whip out the jewel luster and dip dip dip and make all that tarnish go away.

It'll be a retracement back to the 60's.

Toning bad, dipping good!

Get out of those things now and get dipped!

Tom

mrearlygold

Newbies take note, I am only joking

Tom

joeyuk

Mint rolled coin has done well. Still sealed from mint. It seems anything sold out at the mint can be held a short time and e-bayed for at least 25% profit. Some issues soar.