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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2434373, member: 68&quot;]People have always had this idea that all you have to do is want one and a nice MS-70 modern will appear in your hand by magic.&nbsp; The thinking is that they made billions of coins and if even one in a million is perfect then that&#039;s still lots of coins.&nbsp; Therefore they don&#039;t collect them and don&#039;t even bother to look at them. Would be hoarders look at a bag of coins to save and they look so junky they don&#039;t even bother. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sure they made lots of Gems but now most of them have been recycled with old cars and most all the rest are beat up in circulation.&nbsp; Nobody saved any of the Gems and most moderns would barely exist at all if not for mint sets.&nbsp; Now days we&#039;re running out of mint sets because they get cut up and spent and the coins often have a horrible haze on them (especially the &#039;71).&nbsp; They didn&#039;t care about the nickels back in &#039;71 and they haven&#039;t cared since. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The damn catalogs like the Redbook seem to believe they owe it to their customers to bash moderns so they list the extremely uncommon Gem 1971 at $1.50 which is less than an XF brings on eBay!!!&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>An MS-60 1971 nickel is scarcer than the 1950-D and a Gem accounts for fewer than 3% of all uncs but they list it at $1.50.&nbsp;&nbsp; If people realized how ugly most MS-60 and MS-63 moderns are they&#039;d realize that most collectors aren&#039;t going to be satisfied with them.&nbsp; They&#039;re going to want nice choice BU and gemmy coins and these are quite tough for most moderns.&nbsp; They&#039;re only available at all because people think they are copmmon so they still don&#039;t collect them and they think they&#039;re common because of a screwy grading system and catalogers who trash them. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I beginning to believe there has been a concerted effort for over 25 years to suppress the modern market.&nbsp; Collectors see the ridiculously low prices listed and then don&#039;t want to buy one at the prevailing rate.&nbsp; Nobody would want to pay $50 for a coin that lists at $2.75.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t just a single publication like the Redbook but all of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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