Won't SOLANA be the perfect example for this? Solana lost most of its value years ago but now we see it being considered as one of the biggest cryptocurrencies last year extending to this year. It is possible yes but not all the time this happens. You will be lucky to have kept holding on to a coin that has long ago declined.
Title can have more than one definition but OP's definition according to his subject is different from what you wrote there. He is referring to those coins that had a bad reputation, I mean literally. While Solana is still a legit crypto despite experienced some issues in their system last time and in fact they even fixed it resulting for them to bounce back later on. Another coin would be is ETH.
A lot of people call it dead but it did came back recently even though it still didn't met some people's expectations. There is more to the list actually. If I can give another one, I would say Litecoin. It is one of the sleeping giants. These coins are solid in terms of fundamentals, it is just that it is also normal for them to experience a hibernation period sometimes.