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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1342638, member: 68&quot;]I started in 1957 but all the good coins were gone by then.&nbsp; All the key dates and high grades were long gone.&nbsp; If you plotted out the grades for something like 1925 dimes you&#039;d see that it defined the bottom half of a bell curve because collectors had removed the higher grades.&nbsp; The only thing that would be of value today in circulation would be varieties and gems but, of course, no one collected these.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>None of the coins were very old at all.&nbsp; Halfs went back to 1916 as did dimes.&nbsp; Quarters went back to 1925 and nickels to 1917 (older had the date worn off).&nbsp; Cents only went back 1909 so the oldest coin you could find was a mere 48 years old and most were much newer.&nbsp; Worse is all the coins in circulation had been set aside as uncs so there tended to be ample quantities of everything.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Collectors now days just don&#039;t appreciate how good they have it.&nbsp; Rarities circulate side by side with common VG 1965 quarters.&nbsp; No one checks the coins and only a handful of collectors look at them.&nbsp; Almost anything has a finite chance of showing upin change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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