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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 14079872, member: 68&quot;][ATTACH=full]1531096[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>You don&#039;t see them in this kind of shape any longer. Indeed, they aren&#039;t really common in any condition at all any longer.&nbsp; Almost 75% of the mintage has been lost and most of the survivors range from VG to F condition because the FED rotates stocks of coins so they all wear evenly.&nbsp; About 80% of the survivors are also culls because somebody is scratching all the coins.&nbsp; This leaves &quot;only&quot; about 80,000,000 in collectible condition and 95% of these are VG/ F. </p><p><br /></p><p>The rate at which they are being lost and degraded is even increasing.&nbsp; About 4% are lost annually and 5% degraded. Then add in a few collectors removing the nicest coins and it appears that there won&#039;t be much of anything in terms of nice &#039;65 dimes in another 5 years. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then you have the problem that most all of them are weakly struck by worn dies.&nbsp; This specimen was weakly stuck by good dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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