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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1811920, member: 68&quot;]One of the things that has always attracted attention to any collectible is age.&nbsp; The older beanie babies from the 1980&#039;s were worth more than the new ones generally.&nbsp; This is quite natural.&nbsp; Almost every collector has some preference for &quot;old&quot;.&nbsp; This may or may not manifest in all his collections but it still exists. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Modern bashing&quot; is far different on many levels.&nbsp; Primarily it&#039;s the fact that people who collected 1840&#039;s coins in the 1850&#039;s weren&#039;t looked down on but also people didn&#039;t look down on the coins; they merely considered them common and unimportant.&nbsp; Many modern bashers would wash their hands if they touched a clad one inadvertantly. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There&#039;s another thing too that is different and that is in the 1850&#039;s (more in the 1880&#039;s) lots of people collected, saved, and set aside moderns.&nbsp; Yes, they were common and unimportant but they figured that future collectors would desire pristine examples.&nbsp; This simply hasn&#039;t happened with moderns.&nbsp; There have been no collectyors of moderns at all, or at least, there probably weren&#039;t a dozen before 1978.&nbsp; Even today with the millions of modern collectors there areprobably no more than about 3000 serious collectors of circulation issue moderns!!! This is a tiny fraction of the number who collect just V-nickels or trade dollars.&nbsp; This is why moderns from all over the world are suddenly exploding in price; it&#039;s not because of huge demand appearing out of nowhere but rather a handful of collectors competing for even fewer coins.&nbsp; The coins simply weren&#039;t saved.&nbsp; Far more coins were saved from the 1840&#039;s than from more recent times.&nbsp; If not for the existence of mint sets even most of the more coins would be unavailable in unc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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