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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1506229, member: 66&quot;]The problem is there is no clean break for modern coins.&nbsp; Many people use 1964 but that causes problems with the cent and five cent.&nbsp; A 1965 cent or five cent is modern but a 1964 with the exact came design and composition is classic?&nbsp; The TPG&#039;s split at 1955 makes even less sense because it creates the same problem with EVERY series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some modify it using the 1965 date but push the cent back to 1959 with the start of the Memorial design.&nbsp; But for the nickel that pushed that &quot;modern&quot; all the way back to 1938.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some accept a staggered date approach and use the switch from Liberty to real person portraits as the divider.&nbsp; SO cent go modern at 09, five cents at 38, dimes at 46, quarters at 32, halves at 48 and dollars at 71.</p><p><br /></p><p>Me, I consider modern to be once we started using the steam press in 1836.&nbsp; Before that date dies were hand made and individualistic, after that date they were hubbed and nearly as indistinct as buttons.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no argument about modern commemoratives though, they started with the Washington half dollar in 1982.&nbsp; The first not for circulation commemorative in almost 40 years.&nbsp; And there have been commemoratives almost every year since then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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