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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2425557, member: 68&quot;]They range the gamut from low mintage to high mintage and none saved.&nbsp; There are coins that were produced accidently or inadvertantly as well as the result of intentional trials and processes.&nbsp; There are so many it&#039;s hard to list.&nbsp; The &#039;75-no S dime apparently had a mintage of 2. My favorite is the 1964 clad quarter with a mintage of 1.&nbsp; There are several varieties of clad quarters that are rare in high grade like XF because they were never saved.&nbsp; There are PL&#039;s and it appears a handful of SMS coins are true proofs.&nbsp; There are regular issues like the &#039;82-P quarter that is unavailable with a good strike from a good die.&nbsp; There are one cent coins that are invariably dogs and are all corroded like the &#039;68 cent.&nbsp; The &#039;84-P cent is very scarce and possibly rare with nice surfaces.&nbsp; There are countless subtleties because just like old coins each date has its own unique characteristics.&nbsp; The &#039;72-D 25c comes extremely nice but 100% full strikes are rare if they exist at all.&nbsp; There are various mules where dies are paired with old reverses. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sure, one can build a really nice modern set without spending a great deal of money by sticking with chBU and low end Gems and just not including the rarities.&nbsp; This is the same thing as classic coins except that BU sets are much easier. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>While may laugh at attempting Gem sets as a fool&#039;s errand people who collect older coins simply don&#039;t realize what a huge spread in quality exists in moderns.&nbsp; The typical older modern was very poorly struck from heavily worn dies and this is much of the reason people never saved moderns; most were just ugly.&nbsp; But nice Gems do exist for almost every single modern (except varieties) and such collections are possible and aren&#039;t necessarily expensive. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But people just assume there are mountains of these coins saved because they don&#039;t realize nobody cared about the coins and nice examples were extremely difficult to find.&nbsp; Even with mintages in the hundreds of millions or the billions some of these coins are highly elusive in Gem. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I like a lot of the lower mintage coins as well like the &#039;82-nmm 10c or the &#039;96-W 10c.&nbsp; The&nbsp; upper and lower leaf WI 25c&#039;s could experience far more demand than the supply.&nbsp; These are essentially different types rather than mere varieties since they were intentionally made.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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