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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1256129, member: 68&quot;]I don&#039;t understand why collectors ever stopped collecting modern coins back in 1965.&nbsp; Even though I myself did the exact same thing.&nbsp; The government did everything in their power to discourage collecting and it was a terrible time to be a collector.&nbsp; First they announced a date freeze for silver and all 1964 coins but within only several weeks the coinage act of 1965 was passed and their was a 1965 date freeze as well.&nbsp; Silver coins were still being produced with a 1964 date but all clads forever were going to have a 1965 date. These actions crashed the modern coin market of the era and left a bad taste in many peoples&#039; mouths.&nbsp; Coins they expected to climb to the moon were suddenly worth only face value.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To further punish collectors both mint and proof sets were discontinued indefinitely and mint marks were removed from coins.&nbsp; Still tghis wasn&#039;t enough and a politician from Utah introduced a bill in the house that would make all modern coin collecting illegal.&nbsp; This Bible bill failed to pass largely because there was no more modern coin collecting.&nbsp; Only a handful of collectors were active in the early years of clad.&nbsp; The most well known of these were Yeoman, Pittman, and Hicks.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was years before I got interested in these coins.&nbsp; Sure, I watched them closely each year as a student of statics, circulation, and wear and I even celebrated the return of dates nd mint marks but had no interest in starting a collection.&nbsp; This was largely because these coins were made in virtually &quot;infinite&quot; quantity and the FED had the disconcerting habit of losing large quanties of brand new coin.&nbsp; In 1972 they were stil releasing brand new 1965 quarters and were releasing new &#039;69-D dimes until 1975.&nbsp; I saw a story in the paper that the mint and FED were switching to FIFO accounting which entailed swapping out the oldest coins in storage first so I started collecting them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I lost seven years that I should have been collecting and missed several important varieties.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But better late than never.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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