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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2149105, member: 68&quot;]I have to disagree.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would define modern WORLD coins as any coins struck after the coiuntry switched principally to base metal coins.&nbsp; For the main part this occurred in one country after another starting after WW II.&nbsp; There are many moderns with mintages between one and ten and thousands with mintages between 10 and 500.&nbsp; Most of these are of course, special issues or NCLT. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To me personally I collect world modernsd strictly in Unc so &quot;rare&quot; means extremely difficult to acquire in Unc.&nbsp; Coins like a 1950-E aluminum East German 10p are quite scarce above even VF.&nbsp; A nice Unc will keep you looking.&nbsp; Most of the high mintage moderns have no demand at all so no one knows how rare they really are.&nbsp; Unless there is demand there is no means to estimate supply other than anecdotal evidence. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We each define &quot;rare&quot; and we each define&nbsp; &quot;modern&quot;.&nbsp; I choose my definition of modern because people quit saving new coins when base metal was removed from the coinage of a country.&nbsp; I define rare as anything I can&#039;t find even after moving heaven and earth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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