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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1282591, member: 68&quot;]There are few true collectors any longer but the numbers are growing.&nbsp; Having to make your own album is symptomatic of the scarcity of collectors.&nbsp; You can buy new and used albums and folders for buffalo nickels by the ton but most moderns will prove tough.&nbsp; Until 1984 Whitman didn&#039;t even make a folder for clad quarters and until 2006 no one made a folder for eagle reverse clad quarters.&nbsp; When I was a child you could get folders and albums for almost anything from 1776 to date but they just quit making them for coinage after 1965.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t really collect the 10 w coins but I&#039;ve known they were tough for a long time so had the opportunity to buy them for a long time.&nbsp; Actually this was just the opportunity to shop for them since I couldn&#039;t find them.&nbsp; Even pretty recent catalogs list these as being pretty common but back in the early &#039;80&#039;s they listed for 25c or 50c each.&nbsp; If I could have found a roll of 50 I could have picked it up for two or three dollars but no one was setting aside moderns and you couldn&#039;t find any at all.&nbsp; There was no internet, no demand, and no supply.&nbsp; It was a very surreal time to collect moderns.&nbsp; Rare coins were selling for next to nothing but they couldn&#039;t be found.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is still going on and there are still many hundreds of modern scarcities that list for pennies.&nbsp; Specialists and real collectors have a distinct advantage and almost always do better in the long run but being given a thirty year head start is just weird.&nbsp; I always wondered if I was just wasting my time and throwing away all the money I spent on it but the cost was extremely low (I spent more on postage than coins), and there was a sense that someone had to save these coins or there wouldn&#039;t be any in the future.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In twenty years your set will probably be recognized for its rarity. In ten years people will be astounded to learn just how many moderns are rare in nice condition and many more will be tough even in poor condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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