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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1887801, member: 68&quot;]I think you are missing the point here.&nbsp; Most coins are struck in a fairly narrow range of quality and for most older coins that range is quite high.&nbsp; People don&#039;t care as much about the quality of a specimen if it is typical quality and this tends to apply even in those cases where typical quality isn&#039;t good.&nbsp; But with Ikes&nbsp; typical quality tends to be atrocious and the range of grades is extreme.&nbsp; Just finding nice attractive specimens of many dates is difficult and most people don&#039;t want to collect garbage.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Try finding a nice attractive &#039;76 type I Ike.&nbsp; Only about 10% of mint set coins achieve this level.&nbsp; Very very few are Gems and some people do want moderns in Gem. The only reason these are cheap in MS-63 is that there is such a tiny demand and this cuts across the board on almost all moderns whether they are more available in well struck Gem like clad dimes or very elusive like the Ikes; the demand hardly exists so the prices are low. A handful collect at the high end and this is where the high prices are, but low prices on Gems is not indicative of a large supply but a non-existent demand. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>People do not much collect moderns. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.&nbsp; Certainly an XF 1972&nbsp; that was very poorly made and got it&#039;s wear from a few months in a casino is a remarkably ugly coin to my eye.&nbsp; Nothing will ever fix it. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t collect this coin though.&nbsp; I collect these in Gem with nice strikes and nice surfaces and fully lustrous. These coins are beautiful to me. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Each coin&nbsp; is unique and every series is unique.&nbsp; Ikes had a different set of production problem than any other coins.&nbsp; In most ways it is one of the most difficult coins to find in Gem because so few nice ones were made.&nbsp; Well struck Gem nickels are actually a little more difficult but the reasons for them being more difficult are different and some of these reasons simply don&#039;t apply to Ikes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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