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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2842390, member: 68&quot;]I used to go through a lot of poundage and odd ball stuff would just leap out at me.&nbsp; Then I looked at a great deal of dealer stock in my travels and at coin shows and compared that to what I saw in poundage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most moderns can be found in substantial numbers but in many cases they can be found only in highly worn or degraded condition.&nbsp;&nbsp; Indian coins for example were made in huge numbers but pristine examples are scarce to relatively uncommon.&nbsp; Pristine and well made coins are often scarce.&nbsp; Most of the Korean coins aren&#039;t especially common here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some coins are likely much more common in their countries of issue but this probably doesn&#039;t apply to Korea and almost certainly not to India.&nbsp; Some countries actively discouraged coin collecting in modern times like East Germany and the Soviet Union.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until people actually start collecting moderns it&#039;s impossible to know what&#039;s really rare or what&#039;s just rare to me.&nbsp; But a lot of these coins were simply never set side and I never found even a single example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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