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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7566913, member: 101855&quot;]When I was kid collector in the 1960s, it took forever to get anything new. The Lincoln Memorial cent came out in 1959 at the beginning of my time as a collector. The Kennedy Half Dollar was introduced in 1964. The clad coinage was introduced in 1965 by necessity, and most collectors didn&#039;t like it. The copper-nickel clad half dollar came out 1971, which was also a collector dud. The 1971 Proof set was ugly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then they made a big deal of the Ike Dollar 1973. Then the Bicentennial in 1975-6.</p><p><br /></p><p>From 1959 to 1976, you had six new items in 17 years if you count the clad coins and Bicentennial pieces as one event. When you are 10 years old, 17 years seems like forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now we get several new coins a month at ever increasing prices. it&#039;s an overload, and quite honestly I&#039;m not interested in most of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The commemorative coin programs are similar. It started off slow from 1892 to 1915 11 coin designs. Then it picked up steam in the 1920s, and by the &#039;30s, it was collector abuse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why can&#039;t the mint exercise moderation? It&#039;s either way too much or way too little.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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