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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PyrotekNX, post: 94576, member: 3918&quot;]Young collectors like me have a disadvantage because gold and silver are high and all the good coins have been snatched up by collectors long before they were even born.</p><p><br /></p><p>There hasn&#039;t been any good coins in circulation since I was born basically.&nbsp; Everything is clad garbage and they are little more than tokens IMHO.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint has not made a real coin since 1964.</p><p><br /></p><p>State quarters, mint and clad proof sets, westward journey, sackies, etc. are not going to hold their value like other coins.&nbsp; Once the hype does down, state quarters are going to be absolutely worthless.&nbsp; So many have been minted that it&#039;s too easy to put a collection together of moderns.&nbsp; It might be a good idea to put a collection away because who knows if they will have any value in the years to come.&nbsp; Based on experience, I have doubts that moderns will ever hold much of a premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sackies will probably never be worth more than $1.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are too many collectors out there and there is too much competition.&nbsp; My family started collecting coins back in the mid 1800&#039;s.&nbsp; If I had my Grandfather&#039;s complete colelction, it would be worth thousands.&nbsp; When I was a kid, my grandparents had barber halfs by the roll.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Grandfather was born in 1911, he collected and hoarded coins for years and years.</p><p><br /></p><p>When my Grandfather went on vacation, he came home to find someone broke in and cherrypicked his collection.&nbsp; His gold was gone and who knows what else he lost.&nbsp; Years later, I found his &#039;junk&#039; coin collection which was about 70 ikes, 16 barber halfs, a morgan and a 1921 high relief peace dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>The old coins are so collectible now because there isn&#039;t enough to go around to everyone.&nbsp; They were minted when the US population was much smaller.&nbsp; In the 1800&#039;s coins were minted by the hundreds of thousands or millions, now billions upon billions of them are minted every year.&nbsp; There simply isn&#039;t enough to go around.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t see a future in US coin collecting.&nbsp; The only moderns I really collect are silver proofs and bullion coins.&nbsp; I have at least a 75% complete collection of kennedys, but I have not bought an album for it yet because clad coins really are not that interesting to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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