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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1260196, member: 68&quot;]Outside of just a very few dates almost no pre-&#039;98 clads were saved.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>People saved som kennedy and ike coins and bicentennial quarters and very little else.&nbsp; Even the coins that were saved are often gone now because common wisdom is that all of these are common.&nbsp; If not for mint sets most of these coins would be scarce or rare.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But if you look at the mint sets closely you&#039;ll see they don&#039;t really change the equation that much. For instance every &#039;68-P cent in&nbsp; mint sets is corroded! Most mint sets have been cut up and the coins spent.&nbsp; Many moderns don&#039;t appear in mint sets at all. Almost no varieties appear in mint sets and this means almost all modern varieties are scarce or rare.&nbsp; They made 100,000 1972-D type &quot;b&#039; reverse quarters and there probably aren&#039;t even ten of them in unc, and maybe much fewer.&nbsp; They made a few million &#039;85-P sm bust quarters and I&#039;d wager there aren&#039;t 50 in Unc.&nbsp; There won&#039;t be any in AU or XF and if people don&#039;t start looking then there won&#039;t be any in VF either.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You claim a 1969 quarter is common but the facts argue otherwise.&nbsp; Sure it was common in 1969 but these coins were not saved!!!&nbsp; The mint sets have been torn apart.&nbsp; There are no rolls and no bags.&nbsp; Even if there were bags and bags of these the odds are there wouldn&#039;t be a single nice specimen in all of them because this date had severe problems.&nbsp; The few coins surviving in mint sets have severe problems for the main part.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Let me say this again.&nbsp; There are 2,000,000 nice attractive 1950-D nickels but there aren&#039;t even 100,000 nice attractive &#039;69 quarters or 10,000 1982-P quarters.&nbsp; That makes the moderns orders of magnitude scarcer than a coin that got up close to $200 in todays money.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You can claim the moderns are common but it simply isn&#039;t true.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As I also pointed out earlier the Russian coins were made in huge numbers just like US coins and they made mint sets as well.&nbsp; A nice attractive 1969 5k sells for close to $1000 now.&nbsp; Are you suggesting that Russian coins made in the hundreds of millions are rare but our coins which are almost equally despised are common?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the same thing all over the world; moderns weren&#039;t saved because they had no silver and they were made in huge numbers.&nbsp; Now a very tiny number of collectors are seeking them out and are finding many of them (like a &#039;69 5k) are simply unavailable.&nbsp; What will happen if large numbers of&nbsp; collectors beigin looking at moderns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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