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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 3067242, member: 68"]You apparently haven't tried to find a nice AU 1966 or '83-D cent in circulation recently. The '66's are worn and the '83-D's are mostly gone now except for highly corroded pieces in XF+ to AU. The attrition rate on cents (especially zinc) is extremely high.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin price publishers all maintain the fiction that these coins aren't worth anything to appease the modern bashers and are simply ignoring what's going on on eBay. But many moderns are quite elusive in nice attractive condition above VF. People didn't save them and still aren't.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, in most cases the BU's and the Gems are available cheaply but BU's are often unsightly and some people don't know how to acquire Gems or the process to find them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I would advise most of the buyers of circs on the net to instead learn how to find Gems just as I would advise Gem buyers to be careful not to overpay since some of these are almost "common". But there are some pretty good deals in circs if you know what you're doing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 3067242, member: 68"]You apparently haven't tried to find a nice AU 1966 or '83-D cent in circulation recently. The '66's are worn and the '83-D's are mostly gone now except for highly corroded pieces in XF+ to AU. The attrition rate on cents (especially zinc) is extremely high. The coin price publishers all maintain the fiction that these coins aren't worth anything to appease the modern bashers and are simply ignoring what's going on on eBay. But many moderns are quite elusive in nice attractive condition above VF. People didn't save them and still aren't. Yes, in most cases the BU's and the Gems are available cheaply but BU's are often unsightly and some people don't know how to acquire Gems or the process to find them. Personally, I would advise most of the buyers of circs on the net to instead learn how to find Gems just as I would advise Gem buyers to be careful not to overpay since some of these are almost "common". But there are some pretty good deals in circs if you know what you're doing.[/QUOTE]
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