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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 1054961, member: 19456&quot;]I have thought about this before...I think the coins of today will be in better supply than the ancients...because there is more of a collector mentality today. Currently there are thousands if not millions of people who collect coins...in the ancient times, that wasn&#039;t the case, as far as I know. We also don&#039;t tend to store our coins in the ground, which they did! </p><p><br /></p><p>They are also making a TON of them, which means that they will have a high rate of survival, in theory. The coins that are common now will, however, be not anywhere near as common due to some being lost to natural occurances, and so forth. </p><p><br /></p><p>There probably won&#039;t be any Indian or Lincoln cents still showing their mint red...how many ancient Roman coppers have you seen that were still mint red?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think coins that are in collections now will have a very good chance of survival into the future. Simply because they are more likely to sold to other collectors, perpetually instead of put back into circulation, or melted to make new coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I predict that 1964 Nickels will still be circulating though! LOL. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was sorting some of my coins earlier this week, and I actually thought about this very topic. The coins that don&#039;t meet my standards for my collection get put into the family spending jar, and when it gets full we cash it in and spend it. But I wonder what would happen if we just put that jar aside somewhere and let it sit for who knows how long? Would it be found hundreds or thousands of years from now? </p><p><br /></p><p>What if my collection was lost somehow and at that point, the coins I rejected due to condition were found and one of them in that jar became the finest known? Kind of weird thoughts but I never said I wasn&#039;t weird!</p><p><br /></p><p>And finally...to those that bash moderns...in 1000 years from now, today&#039;s moderns will be ancients![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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