why is the value of the coin so low currently? It was almost worth 4 times what it is now recently. Will it make a come back?
The price will not go back from the optimism of the cheerleaders, vocal supporters, regional leaders or whatever they call themselves in this thread and IRC. The price will go back when the devs start to deliver features that people/investors are interested in.
based on your experience (whether with coins in general, or this dev) - would you think there will be a recovery or are you calling this one done?
I think there will be a recovery sometimes. Firstly when the depressed bag holders unload their coins some pump could happen, but most importantly the devs are honest and intelligent professionals, they are serious about this project and surely they don't want to fail with this project that is in the public domain, so I am sure they will deliver sooner or later and then the price will be a lot better. If the devs deliver big then the price could be very big :-)) I think there are just a very-very few good altcoin projects and vercioin is still one of them (because of the devs).