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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 7357207, member: 68&quot;]Some coins aren&#039;t so bad, like the &#039;73 Ike.&nbsp; 25% are damaged but 95% of the damaged ones can be saved.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Other coins are awful.&nbsp; The &#039;68 dime is damaged about 90% of the time and only 30% of these can be saved.&nbsp; &#039;68-D cents are almost always ruined with no chance of being saved.&nbsp; Blue Ikes are a mess and fewer than half can be saved.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some coins sucked when they were put in the sets and are far worse now.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Once they tarnish the clock starts ticking.&nbsp; They can usually be saved in the first ten years but after 20 years very few can be saved.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Only 60% of &#039;76-P type I&#039;s in the mint sets were nice.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now 70% of all these sets are gone leaving only about 400,000 nice coins but 90% of these are tarnished leaving only 40,000 coins if collectors start acting NOW.&nbsp; If they don&#039;t many of these will be lost.&nbsp;&nbsp; A lot of the 350,000 tarnished coins can be saved if collectors act NOW.&nbsp;&nbsp; A great number of the Gems for this date are at risk until they are removed from the packaging and stabilized.&nbsp; I believe this is important since fewer than 1% of these were Gem when they left the mint.&nbsp;&nbsp; There won&#039;t be many Gems if collectors continue to ignore these coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of moderns are in danger and especially the first 25 years.&nbsp;&nbsp; I only recently discovered the SMS&#039;s have a lot of trouble.&nbsp; Coins that can&#039;t be saved are spotted and this applies to a lot of the SMS.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coins we pass down to our heirs will have very limited value if they need cleaning or are lost irretrievably.&nbsp; We owe it to them and future generations to preserve these coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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