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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 179068, member: 68&quot;]OK.&nbsp; To each his own and there&#039;s no wrong way to enjoy the hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>This attitude is one that&#039;s tough for modern collectors to have simply because </p><p>most of the coins are common in lower grades.&nbsp; Essentially believing this means </p><p>moderns wouldn&#039;t be much fun.&nbsp; But very few colectors collect this way.&nbsp; Indian </p><p>cent collectors don&#039;t put an 1877 in the hole and say &quot;that&#039;s it, I&#039;m done&quot;.&nbsp; No, </p><p>they seek the other dates as well even those dates which are more common than</p><p>moderns.&nbsp; When they upgrade they don&#039;t buy a choice &#039;77 cent and stop there,</p><p>they also upgrade their 1907 cent and the &#039;93.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Still, to each his own.</p><p><br /></p><p>But most of the bashers just bash moderns out of hand.&nbsp; They lump all the coins </p><p>tegether as just worthless junk and wonder why people would pay much money </p><p>for it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The fact is that there are numerous rare moderns that had mintages in the single</p><p>digits and there are scarcities throughout most of the series and these get bashed </p><p>right along with everything else.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Moderns have a lot of advantages over the classics and are an ideal place for new-</p><p>bies to get started.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t to say that they need to &quot;graduate&quot; to real coins or</p><p>that there&#039;s anything to preclude them from becoming expert in moderns, just that </p><p>these coins are much more &quot;user friendly&quot; than old coins.&nbsp; One doesn&#039;t have so </p><p>much concern with grading problems or a shift in grading standards.&nbsp; If the third </p><p>party graders started grading all coins with rubs as AU-58 it would be devastating </p><p>to many classic coiun collectors but modern collectors would be unaffected.&nbsp; There </p><p>are almost no moderns with rubs; they are either obviously unc/ proof or they aren&#039;t</p><p>There is not the same problem with alterrations in the moderns, they aren&#039;t played </p><p>with by coin doctors.&nbsp; Grading is easier as well since there aren&#039;t dozens of different</p><p>kinds of surfaces caused by many decades of storage and various cleaning and dip-</p><p>ping.&nbsp; These coins are available.&nbsp; They can be hard to find locally sometimes but you </p><p>can find most of them on the net.&nbsp; They can be found in circulation and for the first</p><p>time in generations there are rare coins being found in change.&nbsp; Most of these sets</p><p>can be as challenging as you like.&nbsp; You can always include scarcer varieties and higher </p><p>grades if you find something too easy.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So sure, collect what you like.&nbsp; Bowers can even slam what he likes but he has been </p><p>making some very untrue and misleading statements about moderns.&nbsp; He has even </p><p>said things like you can fill up a truck with all the MS-69 and MS-70 states quarters </p><p>out there.&nbsp; States quarters don&#039;t come all that much nicer than the other circulating</p><p>coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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