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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2425001, member: 68&quot;]Your standards are arbitrary, mine are not.&nbsp; You can&#039;t tell what a date looks like by pop reports.&nbsp; With moders what you are really seeing is how valuale the upper grades are.&nbsp; You can&#039;t tell from a pop report that decent looking &#039;69 quarters or &#039;76 Ikes are tough.&nbsp; You can only see how many Gems the services think exist based on their grading criteria.&nbsp; Their grading criteria are based on how classic coins are graded and don&#039;t take differences in standards and manufacture into account.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Collectors take such differences into account.&nbsp; These markets wouldn&#039;t still be in their infancy if they weren&#039;t continually be slammed by publishers, organizations, price guides, modern bashers, and dealers while being graded to the standards appropriate to coins from a century ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>People hate moderns because they are &quot;junk&quot; and because they percieve them to all be as common as grains of sand on the beech.&nbsp; Older collectors have never forgiven the mint and FED for what they did to us in &#039;64/ &#039;65.&nbsp; They can never like debased junk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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