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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2621466, member: 68&quot;]It&#039;s a crazy situation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most&nbsp; Lincoln cent sets that come into coin shops end at 1965.&nbsp; The cent changed reverse designs in 1959 but there was no change in &#039;65.&nbsp; The same thing applies to Jefferson sets. </p><p><br /></p><p>People just stopped saving coins in 1965. </p><p><br /></p><p>As a group future collectors will not despise moderns.&nbsp; So as a group they are far more likely to collect them.&nbsp; As the baby boomers retire the new collectors will look for the &quot;common&quot; modern coins and they won&#039;t find them because people didn&#039;t save them.&nbsp; We&#039;ve already seen what has happened with moderns in Russia and India with many coins going up in price 1000 fold.&nbsp; This is being caused by a very similar phenomenon; there were no collectors in the past because there was a very limited collector base and they all wanted silver.&nbsp; Now there&#039;s suddenly a large middle class and lots of new collectors but they can&#039;t find the moderns.&nbsp; I corresponded with many of the existing collectors in these countries back in the 1980&#039;s but simply couldn&#039;t locate or secure any of the modern coins.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t even know where to obtain them. Russian collectors collected czarist silver coinage and Indian collectors liked state or British issues in silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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