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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2150633, member: 68&quot;]I personally don&#039;t consider seeking an uncirculated example to be &quot;conditional rarity&quot;.&nbsp; If we were talking about seeking Gems or superb Gems of relatively common Uncs then that would be &quot;conditional rarity.&nbsp; It just seems to me that one of the attractions of modern coins is that most are redily available and collectible in Unc.&nbsp; You don&#039;t have to be wealthy to put together a set of Japanese aluminum 1 yen coins.&nbsp; But you will need to be very patient for some of these coins.&nbsp; Across the board there are lots of moderns that are extremely elusive in pristine condition and they are challenging and rewarding to collect. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There&#039;s nothing wrong with circulated coins and many people seek them out but there is a big difference between a coin that circulated and one that hasn&#039;t but was intended to.&nbsp; I just don&#039;t consider this conditionally rare when a common coin is unavailable in Unc and scarce even in VF.&nbsp; A worn, bent, and mutilated&nbsp; coin doesn&#039;t fit in my coin collections.&nbsp; It&#039;s alright for tokens and medals but not for modern coins.&nbsp; If you want a &#039;50-E Eadt German 10p the odds are good you&#039;ll have to settle for a truly ugly example because virtually the entire mintage wore away in circulation and only a few were found when the coins were redeemed by the new German government.&nbsp; The vast bulk of these that survived 40 years in circulation were melted in the 1990&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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