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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1329168, member: 68&quot;]A lot of modern world coins simply aren&#039;t available anywhere at any price.&nbsp; Oh sure, once they suddenly go froma dollar or two to $500 you can find them but in the meantime they aren&#039;t available at all.&nbsp; The fact is most moderns weren&#039;t saved so they are quite scarce.&nbsp; So long as the offer is a dollar they aren&#039;t going up for sale.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1975 10P is one such coin.&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me wrong this one isn&#039;t rare and I own a couple myself but it&#039;s one that isn&#039;t common and never will be.&nbsp; People never collected moderns till recently and now we&#039;re finding out just how tough a lot of them really are.&nbsp; Most are either extremely common or scarce.&nbsp; There aren&#039;t many tweeners like the coin in question.&nbsp; Most of the low mintage was melted many years ago to make refrigerators in Japan when the currency failed.&nbsp; What were left were mostly circulated coins and these have had very high attrition as they were used by children for play money or just dropped in the trash.&nbsp; Many went into poundage but the attrition here is very high as well.&nbsp; I&#039;d be surprised if there are more than 50,000 of these in the entire world and most are worn.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The potential demand is far higher and already the supply is being tested even at these low levels of demand.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>People saved new coins until the currencies began switching to base metal after WW II.&nbsp; Now it can be very tough finding even circulated examples of coins that were massively melted by the issuer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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