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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 3222530, member: 68"]World moderns are still getting destroyed in huge numbers. It used to be a customer would walk into the coin shop to sell coins including a roll of '83-P quarters and the dealer would figure the roll at $10 and it would end up in the till. Now days they'll at least check Greysheet before it goes in the cash register. </p><p><br /></p><p>But if someone walked in with a roll of nice pristine 1956 aluminum Chinese coins it would get dumped right into the bucket of junk foreign. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course such rolls were always scarce so it didn't happen often. But the attrition on scarce moderns is extremely high. Until 1965 scarcity always protected coins from being spent or otherwise abused. It doesn't help any longer because people have the idea all base metal moderns are junk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 3222530, member: 68"]World moderns are still getting destroyed in huge numbers. It used to be a customer would walk into the coin shop to sell coins including a roll of '83-P quarters and the dealer would figure the roll at $10 and it would end up in the till. Now days they'll at least check Greysheet before it goes in the cash register. But if someone walked in with a roll of nice pristine 1956 aluminum Chinese coins it would get dumped right into the bucket of junk foreign. Of course such rolls were always scarce so it didn't happen often. But the attrition on scarce moderns is extremely high. Until 1965 scarcity always protected coins from being spent or otherwise abused. It doesn't help any longer because people have the idea all base metal moderns are junk.[/QUOTE]
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