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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2424610, member: 68&quot;]This is modern bashing even if you hadn&#039;t done it before. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You simply assume there is an &quot;astronomical supply&quot; that can&#039;t be absorbed even by an infinite number of collectors.&nbsp; The reality is some of these coins like nice XF &#039;42-D&#039;s are far underrated even for current demand.&nbsp; A few million more collectors isn&#039;t going to decrease this price.&nbsp; Some of the later coins might provide even larger surprises because they were never saved at all.&nbsp; How many nice &#039;71-P&#039;s do you think exist in XF or better?&nbsp; The only reason this is a face value coin is that the series is so undercollected people don&#039;t even know it&#039;s tough. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What I wonder is how many newbies have poured their heart and soul into a Jefferson collection and then heard somneone say it&#039;s just junk that is sure to languish for all time.&nbsp; How many newbies gave up collecting states quarters because dealers laughed in their face?&nbsp; How do we get a new generation of collectors by telling people any coin that costs less than $10,000 is just garbage and not worthy of serious collectors? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Who is going to buy $10,000 coins at all if there are no new collectors? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The hobby gains when we get more collectors.&nbsp; Collecrtors become numismatists and contribute to the hobby in many ways.&nbsp; Telling people that the coins they like exist in astronomical numbers would be counterproductive even if it were true and the reality is that there is simply no truth to it.&nbsp; You&#039;d know there was no truth to it if youtried to put together a simple collection like those who are being driven from the hobby tried to do. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t care who collects what but I sure as hell care about the health of the hobby and what I believe is best for it.&nbsp; I believe growth is best for it and the best means to achieve growth is to be far more inclusive.&nbsp; This would prove a self fullfilling prophesy and even those states quarters would become far more interesting.&nbsp; The simple fact is thatnot even all of these are extremely common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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