Your talking about numismatic value, thats dif from silver value.(precious metal value)
Numismatic value can obviously be in the 10s of thousands for coins with zero precious metal content.
Coin collecting is kind of a study of history, which hitred is touching upon, thats one reason some people find it so interesting.
An example. in 1969 the canadian gov didnt think they would be able to produce enough 10 cent pcs, they contracted the philidelphia mint to make some.
They changed their minds real quick but some 1969 10 pcs were minted, those are rare, they have whats knows as a large date, the canadian minted 10 cent pcs have a small date.
Right of the punch those philidelphia minted 10 cent pcs were being sold from anyone that could find one for $25,000.
That was in 1969, my parents home then was a rather large home with lots of land which was later divided into single lots, that house and property was valued at $35,000 at the time.
Just to give you the value of that coin. Thats numismatics baby
and it was made from zinc if I recall.
