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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3172473, member: 68&quot;]Everyone thinks all the &quot;common&quot; moderns are common in high grade and bad articles like this one just encourage this nonsense.&nbsp; The common wisdom is that moderns are so common they are uncollectible but the reality is very much different.&nbsp; There are lots fewer &#039;82-P quarters in Gem than &#039;09-S VDB&nbsp;&nbsp; cents.&nbsp; You might say so what since the &#039;82-P is common in circulation but most in circulation are ugly, poorly made examples from worn out dies and are covered in scratches and bangs.&nbsp; Next someone will quote pop reports that show the services have graded lots of Gem &#039;82 quarters but they don&#039;t know that almost every one of them is poorly made from weak, worn, and misaligned dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what do the bashers do?&nbsp; They talk about the high quality coins made for collectors.&nbsp; All they&#039;re really doing is showing that many moderns are so well made that most of them are MS-69 and MS-70.&nbsp; These people are no better than the publishers of the price guides that distort the markets and make it hard for new collectors to get a start in moderns.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what they want because they hate moderns and ridicule collectors for having the temerity to collect anything made after 1964.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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