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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 26272463, member: 13650"]There's a thing called "conditional rarity" in this hobby. Many moderns fall into this category, primarly for the sake of the registry sets online. It's the same reason Lincoln cents minted in the billions might go for hundreds or thousands if they get into a TPG slab at the highest known grades. Sometimes there's only one or a handful at the top tier grades.</p><p> Goes for modern quarters, pretty much anything you can think of. Many people collect ASEs so this isn't a suprise at all. Grading hadn't taken off as much when they first came out and somehow there just aren't that many 70 examples available to collectors who want them from the early years.</p><p><br /></p><p> There's apparently more than 6,621 people who desire a 1986 ASE in theoretically perfect condtion, MS70 in a top tier slab, and there's enough competing with each other to keep the prices where they're at.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 26272463, member: 13650"]There's a thing called "conditional rarity" in this hobby. Many moderns fall into this category, primarly for the sake of the registry sets online. It's the same reason Lincoln cents minted in the billions might go for hundreds or thousands if they get into a TPG slab at the highest known grades. Sometimes there's only one or a handful at the top tier grades. Goes for modern quarters, pretty much anything you can think of. Many people collect ASEs so this isn't a suprise at all. Grading hadn't taken off as much when they first came out and somehow there just aren't that many 70 examples available to collectors who want them from the early years. There's apparently more than 6,621 people who desire a 1986 ASE in theoretically perfect condtion, MS70 in a top tier slab, and there's enough competing with each other to keep the prices where they're at.[/QUOTE]
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