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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 6704742, member: 68&quot;]There is a growing list that are worth saving all the way down to MS-63.&nbsp; As long as they are fully lustrous coins like &#039;76 tI Ikes are worth $4 each.&nbsp; Lots of other coins have almost no supply in chBU but still sport low price tags.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe the real &quot;canary in the coal mine&quot; is the &#039;68 cent.&nbsp; Pennies are widely collected yet no one seems to notice this date is always tarnished and spotted.&nbsp; The &#039;69 quarter is similar because only half of mint set coins weren&#039;t ugly and now this coin in the few surviving mint sets is tarnished.&nbsp; There used to be a million nice coins in mint sets and now there are only a few thousand. There are no rolls of these and if you could find 100 representative roll coins about 98 would be ugly.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is increasing demand for almost all moderns and we should start seeing this demand bump up against supply constraints even in lower grades including nice attractive VF&#039;s before many years are out.&nbsp; The low prices and low interest in moderns has resulted in a great deal of degradation of these coins.&nbsp; Even older proofs have very little value unless they are higher denomination or very high grade.&nbsp; This has been devastating to the supply of coins like 1968-S quarters.&nbsp; The coins end up in rolls for 40c each or sold to the general public.&nbsp; Every time the price of silver runs up the sets are smashed to get the silver half.&nbsp; Then of course there is normal attrition caused by fire, flood, and carelessness.&nbsp; Bad economies and &quot;pandemics&quot; cause the dissolution of households and things like old proof sets get degraded or improperly stored as a result.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I had always figured the move into moderns would be rather &quot;sudden&quot; but it appears this is it and I was wrong.&nbsp; Prices have been increasing for a couple years now and the rate appears to be accelerating.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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