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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2765411, member: 80804&quot;]For what it&#039;s worth, generally the dividing line between &quot;modern&quot; (early modern, at least) and all its predecessor areas is about 1500 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re in the US, of course, &#039;64 seems like a rational place to draw a line between eras, but in my mind it&#039;s between the last gasp of interest possible for anyone who was not going to be buying NCLT&#039;s and then, eventually, slabs; and instead was in it for &quot;the thrill of the chase&quot;. As one who lived through it, I can say it very quickly became impossible to collect from actual circulation (I&#039;m not talking about those few who had access to huge amounts of change like the proceeds of parking meters or vending machines) anything earlier than 1964 in any denomination except cents or nickels (where a mintage under a billion is considered &quot;rare&quot;?!?). The &quot;trolleycar&quot; cents (Lincoln Memorial) were already well on the way to driving wheatbacks out of circulation by &#039;64, and the silver content of wartime nickels made them nearly impossible to find after that cutoff date as well.</p><p>So I&#039;d have to say it was the &quot;lucky&quot; (perhaps &quot;fortuitous&quot; would be a better term) confluence of Greshams law, the changes (none for the better) in the makeup of US coinage in circulation, the growing feeling as a teenager that I was too cool to (openly) be a coin collector (automatic categorization and social shunning as a &quot;nerd&quot; at the time) and the fact that I&#039;d had some ancients - albeit without any real support or referencing ability - since 1957, sort of ensured that when my interest in coins reignited in the early 70&#039;s after a 5-6 year hiatus, it was only months (perhaps weeks) before I decided that ancients were the way to go.</p><p>It was really sort of a no-brainer, even then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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