Name a Coin which .................

19Lyds · June 6, 2011 6:43AM

was insanely popular when it was released but which can now be had for nickels on the dollar?

I could never sell my Wisconsin Extra Leaf quarters, which I have an MS65 set, for the price I paid for them. (Which at the time was very reasonable and not outlandish)

What about you?

STONE · June 6, 2011 6:48AM

US Mint products tend to have this trend!

relicsncoins · June 6, 2011 6:53AM

1995 DDO Lincoln. This coin was crazy at first.

GoldenEyeNumismatics · June 6, 2011 6:53AM

1950-D nickels were absurdly expensive in the late '50s and 1960s compared to their current levels.

Windycity · June 6, 2011 6:57AM

1970-S small date cents were a rage at the time.

keyman64 · June 6, 2011 7:45AM

<< 1995 DDO Lincoln. This coin was crazy at first. >>

Didn't the price for of these go near $200-250 or so...RAW?

relicsncoins · June 6, 2011 8:00AM

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<< 1995 DDO Lincoln. This coin was crazy at first. >>

Didn't the price for of these go near $200-250 or so...RAW? >>

I remember seeing them listed in Coinage adverts for up around $250. A raw example now sells for under $50, and a 68RD slabbed example can be had for under $200.

AUandAG · June 6, 2011 10:41AM

The 1960d small date and large date cents....

Never really expensive but overly hyped and now can be had in rolls for hardly
any premium.

bob

BillyKingsley · June 6, 2011 10:50AM

That 1995 Lincoln is actually a holy grail of mine, of a sort. My first memory of coins of any sort was searching for them with my dad in 1995, when they were new.

It was mainly due to that that I had a small collection in 1995, but didn't stick with it, and wouldn't really get into it to stay until 2008, when I found my father's collection, six years after we lost him to cancer.

Amazingly, when I got into it in 08, I knew exactly where the binder was that had my small 1995 collection, and when I pulled it out and went through them then it was the first time they had seen the light of since probably 1996. (That was the newest coin in there)

TheShampineCollection · June 6, 2011 12:14PM

Relative to the price of silver, anything collectible that I purchased more than three years ago in a holder. Everything bullion has gone waaaay up from silver's rise.

Example, I traded 400 ounces of silver for a coin a few years ago. That coin has retained it's value, but the value of the silver bullion is now more than triple what I paid for it, meaning that it is now worth about 150 ounces of silver in trade. I wish the 400 ounces was still in my safe deposit box and not that coin.

astrorat · June 6, 2011 12:21PM

Washington "smooth edge" dollars.

PCcoins · June 6, 2011 12:25PM

I'm gonna go in the opposite direction here. A coin that was treated like the red headed step sister when released and now people will cut throats for superb examples.

Can anyone guess?... Ok, The Morgan dollar.

melvin289 · June 6, 2011 12:36PM

The 1960-D bar nickel. People were going crazy for them back in the day and you still never see one in circulation. I don't think they ever had a premium but were quickly taken out of circulation.

Ron

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19Lyds · June 6, 2011 1:38PM

<< I'm gonna go in the opposite direction here. A coin that was treated like the red headed step sister when released and now people will cut throats for superb examples.

Can anyone guess?... Ok, The Morgan dollar. >>

Hey!

Get your own thread!

coirn · June 6, 2011 1:49PM

1989 "plain" (die filled mint mark) quarter. I remember seeing the write up in CoinAge and the subsequent high, high prices back then.
You couldn't touch them for under $100. Today? Maybe $5.

fivecents · June 6, 2011 2:10PM

1999 silver proof sets were selling for up to $500. Now they bring just north of $100.

legacycoin · June 6, 2011 2:19PM

Weren't the 1973S 40% proof Eisenhowers up over $100 back in 1977-78 or so? I was just starting in collecting and $100 for a 4-year old coin just didn't make sense to me (I was 12 years old).

SaorAlba · June 6, 2011 8:39PM

I can remember being about 12 or so when the 1975-S cents were trading sometimes north of $20 each.

19Lyds · June 7, 2011 12:35AM

<< Weren't the 1973S 40% proof Eisenhowers up over $100 back in 1977-78 or so? I was just starting in collecting and $100 for a 4-year old coin just didn't make sense to me (I was 12 years old). >>

Yes. Lots of folks bought into the "Lowest Mintage" hype and $50 to $100 for these was not out of line with the market. Even today, raw coins will be marketed for between $29 and $49 each.

johnny9434 · June 7, 2011 1:20AM

would some of the modern commems. fall into this catagory?

crypto79 · June 7, 2011 2:51AM

This should be a lesson for modern fans about the impact of supply and demand when the object of your desires has a almost limitless supply. Once white hot demand/spectulation goes away there will never enough to support the price levels

19Lyds · June 7, 2011 5:46AM

<< would some of the modern commems. fall into this catagory? >>

Absolutely IMO.

Remember the Franklin Commemms?

The Marine Commemms?

How by the SF Mint Commemms?

Name a Coin which .................

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