Sleeper Coins~

Once again, Prethen, great coins! I would really love to see your collection in person sometime!

As far as "sleeper coins", the entire Seated series is still very undervalued in my opinion. The common dates can be picked up for a song. I think this series will start to see some interest in the next 5 years.

The Bust half dollar series is another one. While these coins are generally popular, the prices are still way below what I would expect to pay, though they are slowly rising in value again. The last time the value went up, the market was inundated with them and that drove the price back down.

Barber coinage definitely seems to be on the rise now. For a long time, there seemed to be no real interest in this series, but I'm seeing rising trends in the market in the last 6 months or so.

Common date large cents are another series that doesn't seem to be anywhere near its full potential. This is surprising since there are so many varieties and ways to collect these.

I believe that Lincoln Wheat cents will be on the steady rise now. The change of design in 2009 and the copper content will both play a part in that. Whereas wheats were selling for about 3 cents per coin early last year, the overall price seems to be up to about 5-7 cents per coin overall. Teens and twenties are selling for much, much higher. I just sold 165 1909-1930 lot for $158. These were all average circulated. This is definitely a series to watch.

Well, no one has addressed it yet but there's an explosion ongoing in scarce Morgan and Peace VAMs. I know these aren't types, they're varieties, but the explosion is there nonetheless.

A treasure-seeker mentality is driving this (yes, I'm a victim). Imagine perusing a dealers case and spotting a coin worth $15,000 with a $40 price tag on it. It has been happening! I started a thread about just such a coin offered on ebay a few months ago. It was only listed for a day before the seller was somehow "informed" and the coin was delisted. There are many more on there right now just waiting to be discovered.

There are a lot of coin collectors with vast holdings and zero knowledge of VAMs. At shows I ask if they know about VAMs. A great number say they don't have time to learn. Fine by me, oh and by the way may I look at that 1878 8TF Morgan in XF there?

Keep one thing in mind...they are only "sleepers" if a greater collector segment cares to pursue them in the future.

He wasn't kidding about those slq's. I bought mine just as they were on the upward slope for about $7 a pop.

I used to have more but sold a few on ebay and made a nice profit. I think I will hold the others for now

If I ever decide to build an SLQ set, I know who I am going to!

I would like to look into how prices rise, and hopefully see a trend but where would I get this information?

It seems like all you guys are just going on mintage, are there other things to consider? and if there is what else?

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Also,what are some long term sleeper coins that might be a good idea to hold onto now, that might be worth something in 40 years?

I'm wondering just in case I lose interest in coin collecting but decide to pick it up again when I'm older.