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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2952682, member: 68&quot;]The amount of melting modern coins have undergone is simply staggering.&nbsp; These coins are fiscally abused by the issuer or demonetized to the point that they are worth more as scrap than as coin.&nbsp; Then they are melted to make consumer products for a throw-away economy. </p><p><br /></p><p>Few people collect moderns and many of those coins not melted weren&#039;t melted because they had already been lost or destroyed.&nbsp; Even coins that existed at the time they were melted nd escaped this fate have&nbsp; very high attrition rate because the coins are considered worthless and it&#039;s still&nbsp; an economy based on waste, greed, and destruction. </p><p><br /></p><p>People assume all moderns are common but the reality is few have been saved in any condition and most of the large mintages have been destroyed by time or government action.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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