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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2424206, member: 68&quot;]It&#039;s a shame there&#039;s no &quot;hate post&quot; button so I could hate my last post.&nbsp; I was feeling rather grumpy for other reasons some of them related to how few states quarter collectors have moved on to collect other coins of any sort.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Most &quot;modern bashers&quot; mean no harm and are merely expressing their beliefs about the value, importance, or sustainability of modern coins.&nbsp; They aren&#039;t doing it to hurt newbi or modern collectors but rather because they don&#039;t want to see them get hurt financially or emotionally or because they simply hate modern coins.&nbsp; Of course a few have never had such noble motives and are simply trying to lead collectors into things in which they have large &quot;investments&quot;.&nbsp; If World Colonial is a modern basher at all he does belong to the former category.&nbsp; Much of our difference is one of perspective anyway.&nbsp; I believe that coin collecting may not have yet seen its heyday.&nbsp; There&#039;s no reason there can&#039;t be millions and millions of collector just like there were between 1935 and 1965.&nbsp; With the whole world now buying coins rather than only US citizens there&#039;s no reason there can&#039;t be tens of millions of collectors in the future.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Tens of millions of collectors simply can&#039;t all collect &quot;rare coins&quot; because there aren&#039;t enough to go around.&nbsp; They can&#039;t all collect 5 step 1968-S nickels because there&#039;s only one of them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There&#039;s simply no reason that I know that Jeffersons can&#039;t get far more popular and their price structure change completely.&nbsp; But so long as people are telling newbies that moderns are less desirable than other coins (for any reason) the number of people who stay and advance in this hobby will be reduced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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