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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 411586, member: 68&quot;]I dismantle most of these sets and stabilize the coins in acetone and then store them properly.&nbsp; Usually you can get the coins back in the packaging if you want.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a problem with many world moderns.&nbsp; Not only is there no supply of many of the coins but even those which appear in set can be almost universally damaged.&nbsp; I think the very worst are the &#039;75 Japanese copper coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re right though that the &#039;69 Indian coins are heavily damaged and have suffered significant attrition for this reason.&nbsp; It&#039;s really pretty ludicrous; they made only 9,000 of these coins and probably 80% of the surviving sets have significant damage because of PVC.&nbsp; No doubt many of these were just melted for the silver since they were a mess and cheap.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If India developes the kind of middle class that the US has it&#039;s hard to imagine how a couple thousand coins will satisfy the demands of a billion people.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But what if the demand for something like a &#039;62 1 R is twenty times as great.&nbsp; As near as I can tell there are none in India and none in the US.&nbsp; &quot;None&quot; is a pretty big number but the point is they just don&#039;t appear.&nbsp; Most all of the Indian circulation issues are very very tough in gem condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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