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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 648300, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Wow a lot of thought, plus talk went into &quot;a whole lot of nothing&quot; here</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Wow a lot of thought, plus talk went into &quot;a whole lot of nothing&quot; here so I will try to turn it into some talk worth having.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes it looks a little better but even in MS-71 it&#039;s to me a boring state quarter no matter what.</p><p>If you learned something that&#039;s fine.&nbsp; These are certainly the type of coins you should practice on that&#039;s for sure.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ll tell you something though, modern coinage does not hold up well at all - I run across cents with zinc rot, clad coins from current years turning green, black and purple and not the nice purple.</p><p>It&#039;s an amazement to me that I can pull out 1954 cents behind me that are MS-66 Red and get rolls of the new cents that are spotted black, freckled, and worthless just weeks or months after leaving the very same minting facility and 55 years worth of modern techknowledgey forward.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I tell you the truth many times while searching just turned in Lincoln&#039;s from the 1990&#039;s or past ten years I literally throw them in the trash to save someone else from having to stop up someones CoinStar with them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>But one thing is certain and BadThad knows it as much as I do - these moderns especially Lincoln&#039;s that remain gems will one day be worth more that gold because they are hard to find and keep perfect.</b></p><p><b>Out of a brinks box of 2500 I find about 150 to 250 coins that are good enough for me to offer - that&#039;s a fact.&nbsp; Plus out of those maybe 2-dozen that I would keep for my set - that ain&#039;t many at all!</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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