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Forum Mom
 United States
5877 Posts |
Does anyone here know why dimes are getting so much more over melt value than quarters or halves on ebay? It used to be that the profit margin was better for halves, with quarters in second place and dimes the lowest. It looks like things are changing and I can't figure out why.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2540 Posts |
That makes no sense, except that the buyers feel that they are getting more for their money.
(more in the sense of the number of coins.)
However, Mercs are going for more.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
974 Posts |
Hmmm, just tossing this out there...  maybe they are shinier since they are smaller?  Beats me! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2443 Posts |
Maybe because halves and quarters go for so much that people now focus on dimes because they think they're more attainable? Or it's because silver and gold is up so some buy buy high and sell low?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1984 Posts |
I think there's also still a sense from some buyers that dimes have the best chance of providing something of more numismatic value than melt value. While we can debate about the realism of this particular (mis)perception, I think people perceive that there's a chance they'll find a missed overdate or even a...gasp...1916-D in a bulk lot of dimes. As if.
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Valued Member
United States
455 Posts |
It's the weight, the larger coins tend to wear more thus causing them to weigh less proportionately. In other words, $100 in silver dimes will be heavier than $100 in quarters.
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Forum Mom
 United States
5877 Posts |
That makes sense, except we saw the most difference comparing a BU 1/2 roll of dimes to a BU 1/2 roll of quarters... |
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Member
United States
3242 Posts |
Coin Values did a spot cheap silver and Barber dimes were listed as cheap . |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
3831 Posts |
It's probably a psychological thing. For a pound of silver, you might get twice as much silver coins in dimes compared to halves (not too sure?) and therefore widen chances in finding a rarity. With high silver prices, people are perhaps fearing that it will rise higher and buy whatever "cheap" silver they can find. Perhaps it's not suprising to think that dimes are always cheaper than halves but these people don't bother to do a proper search by mass.
Take it this way, if you let a pound of feather and a pound of lead off a Tower, which will land first?
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7123 Posts |
There are way more folks collecting dimes than quarters or halves,, I think it has to do with demand and is as simple as that ,, Higher demand = Higher Price
its easier to put together a complete set of dimes from bulk lots ,,(more than likely less the keys) than it is from bulk lots of quarters or Halves.
Metalman
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Why do people "buy the coin and not the slab?" To do so means they never had to spend the money for a slab in the first place. However, it would make perfect sense for people to buy dimes in melt-grades if they were buying them as crisis coins. Dimes, it would seem, would be the easiest coins to make transactions with. But what's the crisis? "Helicopter Ben" has got everything under control.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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because market makers are pushing them this week.....
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New Member
United States
8 Posts |
Having bid in a lot of ebay auctions lately, I can say that there are many more bidders on average for the dimes right now. The BU rolls I can understand, but the 'junk' silver makes no sense to be over spot. Perhaps just an idiosyncrisy of the market, perhaps something cyclical, perhaps investor psychology, or a combo of them all. |
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Posted 10/05/2007 4:47 pm
