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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 838960, member: 16510&quot;]<b>If I ever come across has bashing new collectors for collecting modern coins that is the last thing I want to do.</b></p><p>People should collect what they like and pleases them is the best advice always.</p><p>I do report here what I see and what I see selling, not selling and laying around - that is the market.</p><p>Also it&#039;s never what collectors like that is the issue - it&#039;s what the mint has done with modern mintages and too many different issues.&nbsp; We have <b>to much, way to much</b>.</p><p>When we compare modern to classics it&#039;s natural.&nbsp; What else are we to compare these to?</p><p>When I say dealers are paying 40% back on modern mint and proof sets, <b>have too much</b> and don&#039;t want these it&#039;s not aimed at saying your coins are no good are cannot be valued.&nbsp; It&#039;s just telling you what I see, you may see something different and to say that&#039;s belittling new collectors that&#039;s your leap not mine.</p><p>The facts are if dealers have boxes of this stuff laying around under tables going unsold <b>there is too much.</b></p><p>We value things because we like them, appreciate the art and have value, or are rare.&nbsp; When I say these coins are not rare that to is not belittling new collectors it&#039;s just stating a fact, <b>there is to much</b>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Lets take the 1996-W Dime for an example.&nbsp; It&#039;s an interesting coin, has much going for it, I like it, but it ain&#039;t rare, it will not be rare, cannot be considered rare and will be readily avilible for the remainder of this century, <b>there is to many</b>.&nbsp; The fact is they made a million and half, they are not going to enter circulation and will be passed from collector to collector, mint set to mint set, here to there and hoard to hoard.&nbsp; If it had been entered into circulation as a W-mint coin with that mintage then we could change some parameters here and change some of the above.&nbsp; Even then it would not be a rare coin as I have described it and compared to the classic key and semi-keys, there is <b>still too many</b> with limited demand.</p><p>I don&#039;t make this stuff up and I don&#039;t mean to say it&#039;s no good or you should not collect these.&nbsp; They are what they are - I can&#039;t make them rare or lower mintages so new colletors can feel better, <b>there is to much</b>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If the main complaint is old timers passing over moderns and that makes you feel less important what are they to do, lie to you and put a Deleware quarter next to a 16-D dime so you feel better or are valued.&nbsp; Old timers are what they are, most want new collectors getting into coins but as you do, they know what they know and think like they think.&nbsp; It&#039;s not their job to value your moderns, that&#039;s your job.&nbsp; I agree many are crusty and worn down and often just plain &quot;not friendly&quot; at least until you get to know them.&nbsp; Again it&#039;s not their job to make you feel good about what you collect, that&#039;s your job.&nbsp; If you say &quot;well it that kind of attitude that drives new folks away, again that is those new folks decision - they probably would not have lasted very long anyway and whether someone leaves or stays has nothing to do with &quot;those old timers&quot; and everything to do with those new folks.&nbsp; </p><p>I like gem memorials Lincoln&#039;s and die varieties many minor, old timers could care less about these coins but I value them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you like, value, and collect moderns it&#039;s your job to make us notice or at least be aware that your here, your not leaving and this is what you value.&nbsp; It will always come up though about moderns and classics and value and rariety.&nbsp; Again, it&#039;s your job to like what you like despite mintages and real rarity if that&#039;s what you have decided on to collect.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here we have seen several new young people as dealers and colletors in the last 5 years.&nbsp; Perhaps as much as 20% increase over what it was 12 years ago.&nbsp; Most of these start out with moderns and move to classics each and every time - I wonder why?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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