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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 335668, member: 68&quot;]I know you&#039;re right that they aren&#039;t easily found and should possibly have used other words.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been collecting modern world coins almost as long as they&#039;ve been made and have a different perspective than most collectors.&nbsp; Back in the mid-&#039;70&#039;s these coins were widely availale and were dirt cheap.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course one should look at the meaning of &quot;widely available&quot;.&nbsp; Mostly this just meant that they were out there.&nbsp; There was no real and specific demand for them because they weren&#039;t really being collected in a formal way by more than a handfull of collectors.&nbsp; This meant that those on the market just sat in dealer inventory for years until they were purchased for poundage or by someone who just wanted &quot;coins&quot;.&nbsp; Many would have been degraded after use for other purposes.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What has changed isn&#039;t that the coins are so much scarcer now, what&#039;s changed is that there is a real and widespread demand for them.&nbsp; This is still a very small demand but if it can be met only by a solid unc 1957 100L from Italy then the odds are good it&#039;s already been sold so the collector is left to raise his bid price and look elsewhere.&nbsp; These didn&#039;t appear in mint sets and 100L was enough money and stainless steel so little value that very few people saw any point in saving new examples.&nbsp; Stainless wears forever in circulation so it would seem there was little need to save them since there would be nice specimens in circulation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>No, there aren&#039;t vast quantities available.&nbsp; I made the mistake of trading mine off very early for far too little.&nbsp; I got them for next to nothing and didn&#039;t believe in them when the price went through the roof so traded them for nickels on the dollar.&nbsp; I had quite a few and really wish I&#039;d had the foresight to retain a complete set of the 50 and 100L&#039;s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have anything against these coins and understand there are far fewer than the number of collectors.&nbsp; There are many far far scarcer moderns though that still sell for next to nothing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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