Pricing 160 '54 Nickels

" Coins and Canada is not accurate due to shipping costs on ebay " ..............seriously ? Do Explain?

This thread goes to illustrate why I think the ARP is one of the best things to happen to the coin collecting hobby in Canada in a long time. Sure, I've read some online comments from collectors about the "damage" this is doing to the hobby...because what are they going to be able to search for in change when a lot of it is being removed from circulation?

I look at it this way...the overwhelming majority of base metal coins minted in Canada (especially since the late 60s but even before then) are as common as dirt, and unless you are talking about coins like the '64 XWL nickel or 1973 large bust quarter, most of these coins have very little to no collector interest. When one considers that most of these coins have mintages several times that of the population of Canada, how can the collecting hobby possibly absorb all these coins? It just can't.

I say that the coins being targeted by the ARP should (as much as possible) be returned to the mint for melting just because of how common they are and the low collector demand. I'm not saying we should totally destroy the past, but a really good culling of the herd really isn't that bad a thing.

One has to take a look at this from another perspective. Sure, the great silver melt of '80 supposedly removed a lot of so called "collectors coins" from the market. Yet, after that subsided silver coins that once were used as money (and are in well circulated condition) still are fairly common at coin dealers, in antiques stores, at garage sales, on ebay and the like. It really does make you think.

I'll just keep them I suppose.

Great to hang onto I think. That's a good score, nothing wrong with that.