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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 8197430, member: 68&quot;]How times change.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I started collecting in 1957 all the good coins had already been removed from circulation.&nbsp; Every coin had been looked at dozens of times by collectors.&nbsp; There was no chance of finding even a VG &#039;15-S buffalo far less an AU or Unc.&nbsp; Now here we are 65 years later and no one blinks an eye when such a scarce coin is found.&nbsp; Despite the fact people are NOT pulling &#039;68-S nickels out of circulation, there aren&#039;t any.&nbsp; Or closer to the reality there are so few you probably won&#039;t find one in two boxes of nickels.&nbsp; When you&#039;ve found 1000 of them 99.9% will be VG- to VF.&nbsp; Find another 2000 and you&#039;ll have a nice AU.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you look through millions of nickels you can find one like this.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The odds of finding this coin through chance are exceedingly low so chances are it was just stumbled on after someone split up a mint set or roll. The tarnish suggests it might have recently come out of a mint set.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Why do I keep thinking that in 50 years it will be far easier to find a &#039;15-S than a &#039;68-S?&nbsp; How many &#039;15-S nickels are in collections compared to a &#039;68-S? Why was a 42 year old &#039;15-S a very old coin but a 65 year old &#039;68-S is a modern?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s no demand for a &#039;68-S no matter how common or scarce it may be.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I see nothing too unusual about this coin beyond the fact that it&#039;s a slider Unc that probably saw some circulation briefly after having sat out for a very long time.&nbsp; Most of he circulation probably occurred within the last ten years judging by the many small scratches.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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