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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1359567, member: 68&quot;]You&#039;re right, of course, but my perspective is a little different.</p><p><br /></p><p>My focus has mostly been on setting aside nice high quality examples of BU clads for future collectors.&nbsp; Obviously I was all wrong about these markets since I thought the very latest they could explode higher was 1986 and this is why I began promoting them at that time.&nbsp; In a nutshell I was wrong.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But from another perspective I was partially right since the market is already far larger than the supply of the top quality coins.&nbsp; I never imagined that superb gems would grow so far with gems going nowhere.&nbsp; But this is just indication of how tiny these markets are.&nbsp; There are very few top grade examples and very few who want them but the very few near top grades go begging because there&#039;s no demand.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Each year there is evidence of increasing demand.&nbsp; There are now thousands of clad quarter collectors and if they all went out and tried to finish their collections tomorrow we&#039;d already have exploding prices.&nbsp; But prices are low and collectors can find choice examples if they are patient for very little cash so they wait and collect.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen these markets grow from the point I could name the collectors to now when some of the price moves are inexplicable. They are growing and it&#039;s merely a matter of time until the dwindling supply of mint sets bumps up against the growing demand.&nbsp; At the same time the supply of sets dwindles there is a slow process of people selecting out the choice examples making it more difficult to find the nice coins.&nbsp; Collectors will need more sets as their numbers decrease.&nbsp; There&#039;s also a steady degradation of the sets as issue after issue corrodes.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>People simply don&#039;t realize that there are fewer uncirculated examples of most of the clad coins than there are 1950-D nickels.&nbsp; Unlike the &#039;50-D nickels the majority of the uncirculated clads are unattractive examples and will be avoided by collectors in the future.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course it&#039;s astounding to me that this situation has persisted as long as it has.&nbsp; While it might never change odds are that it will come to an end.&nbsp; People are naturally nostalgic and coin collectors naturally collect coins.&nbsp; These are US coins and I will continue to believe that there day will come and that it&#039;s been long overdue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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