What is the advantage of quality versus quantity?
“Better Date” refers to the rarest or lowest population coins in a particular series. Due to their rarity, they can command the interest of very wealthy coin collectors who wish to round-out their sets. These collectors are prepared to pay top dollar for such coins. Better date coins and premier high-grade specimens experienced large percentage gains over the last 30 years. The Pittman auction in October 1997 showed average appreciation on select U.S. rare coins for the last 20 years to be over 70% per year.
