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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 8149219, member: 68&quot;]Usually those low mintages mean that they all went into the mint set so will be common.&nbsp; Moderns are a topsy turvy arena where high mintages are often rare and low mintages are common.&nbsp; Mint sets complicate everything a lot because many are destroyed by collectors or by bad packaging and time.&nbsp; I do like the&nbsp; One Forint in this set though.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The numbers of base metal moderns that have been destroyed to build refrigerators or simply lost is staggering.&nbsp; It&#039;s probably over 95% of coins made before 1999.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even here in the US I noticed just the other day that nickels from the 1970&#039;s are getting decidedly tough to find in pocket change.&nbsp; They aren&#039;t only tough to find in nice F and better, they&#039;re getting tough to find even in VG and cull.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The same thing is being found all over the world; many moderns weren&#039;t really saved and there aren&#039;t enough even for the light demand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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