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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3176048, member: 68&quot;]I know I can&#039;t make everyone (or anyone) a lover of moderns and that&#039;s never my point.&nbsp; Nor is my point to chastise anyone who doesn&#039;t like them.&nbsp; I&#039;m a strong believe in &quot;live and let live&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>But I dislike the article that prompted this thread because it is highly misleading and new collectors of both &quot;moderns&quot; and MS-70&#039;s&quot; might be led to believe that there is something inherently wrong with collecting their favorite series.&nbsp; If the author had merely confined himself to MS-70 and made specific warnings then I&#039;d probably have had nothing to say and if I did it would have sounded much less like criticism and much more like a countering of those specific points. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know the author and don&#039;t know that he would intentionally trash the coins I collect or not and really it doesn&#039;t matter.&nbsp; I would be interested in discussing any point he might make against moderns.&nbsp; Obviously there are strengths and weaknesses of any coin from a collecting or &quot;investing&quot; perspective.&nbsp; I simply believe moderns are a fun and uncharted area to collect and because they are &quot;uncharted&quot; there is probably a great deal more room for SOME of them to increase in price.&nbsp; Nobody should buy any coin for investment because they are too risky.&nbsp;&nbsp; Collectables are too risky because no one can predict the future of demand.&nbsp; It&#039;s difficult to even gauge supply in most moderns because they are mostly uncharted. </p><p><br /></p><p>I certainly agree whole heartedly with you and have been setting what I believe are rare coins aside for many years.&nbsp;&nbsp; I used to believe in investing in coins before the market proved me right but way too late.&nbsp; I still save a few coins for the future but my safety deposit boxes are full&nbsp; and I&#039;m saving them much more for collectors than for profit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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