rarities in dealer inventory?

what rarities do you feel are a dealer inventory coin?
I will define that to mean that over 25% are owne by dealers for sale
1942/41 Mercury dimes?
1955 DDO Lincoln?
Wisconsin Hi/Lo leaf quarter?
or are these collector coins that are quickly placed
I will define that to mean that over 25% are owne by dealers for sale
1942/41 Mercury dimes?
1955 DDO Lincoln?
Wisconsin Hi/Lo leaf quarter?
or are these collector coins that are quickly placed
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The others have been around long enough for a lot of collectors to have them.
edit>>> The date is a key (in higher grades) but not a huge rarity.
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and i passed on one nice one at a show a few years ago.
it was raw and i couldnt figure out if it was authentic or not.
later i discovered the diagnostic that would have proven or disproved it.
it was easily au55 and the dealer was asking ...$320 i think.
Care to share what that turned out to be, the diagnostic part of the 42/41 Merc?
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Now we get to the two rare Wisconsin Extra Leaf State Quarters. Being a coin dealer who lived the Extra Leaf Experience here in Marion, Tx which is between San Antonio and Austin, Tx; none of the South Texas coin dealers to my knowledge held any of these money maker coins back !! The two large dealers in SA, Tx blew them out at a nice profit as soon as they bought them through the front door!! I don't think that they even kept the High Grades initially to send to the TPG !! A dealer in Kerville, Tx sold over a 150 sets back in the summer of 2005 to Lone Star Coins just before he went on a month long vacation. He was concerned that the bottom would be falling out of the two rare quarters in that short period of time. When he returned from his vacation, he found that the retail /wholesale prices had NOT Gone Down !!
Seiously, from the Texas side of the Wisconsin Quarter happenings, South Texas dealers did not hold the quarters back. Many coin marketers purchased these coins from Sa, Tx and many Arizonia dealers. Many sets of the quarters were passed from the Texas and Arizonia dealers through other dealers into the collectors hands. There are a few savy individuals that were fortunate enough to find BU quarters at a few Texas banks and they have sold some and kept some. Over time, these holdings are diminishing. None of the Texas coin dealers ever promoted in earnest these rare quarters. That was and is still being done by a small group of Tucson, AZ coin dealers. They are all offering the coins as graded coins/sets and have upheld the true value and rarity of these two coins. Thanks are in order to each of them and especially to Mr. Bob Ford who was kind enough to share the news of these varieties early on.
By definition, they are not rare!!
<< <i>I will define that to mean that over 25% are owne by dealers for sale
By definition, they are not rare!! >>
I can't think of any coin where 25% are in dealer inventories. The one coin where many are in dealer inventories is the High Relief Saint.
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<< <i>Maybe the 1909-S V.D.B... every show I attend there seems to be multiples in most cases. I'm sure plenty are held by collectors, so I don't know about the 25% mark, but there are a lot of S V.D.B.s in dealer inventories. >>
Ditto w/ 1916 SLQs!
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By definition, they are not rare!!
So any R-8 coin owned by a dealer is "not rare"?
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<< <i> I will define that to mean that over 25% are owne by dealers for sale
By definition, they are not rare!!
So any R-8 coin owned by a dealer is "not rare"? >>
Other than super rarities, any so-called mass rarity (like the cited examples) isn't rare if dealers stock 25% of 'em! Sure, if there are only 4 of an R-8 coin, and a dealer has one in inventory, it's still a very rare coin.
On the other hand...
'09S VDBs & '16 SLQs are not rare per se--there are thousands of 'em around, many in dealer inventories. Bothpof these examples are especially common as first year of issue by type.