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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2010728, member: 68&quot;]I&#039;m not really surprised the consensus is &quot;moderns&quot; but I&#039;ve never really understood this perspective. I was as unhappy&nbsp; about the switch to base metal junk as anyone probably because it removed the great old silver coins from circulation and soon even my favorites were gone as well; buffalo nickels.&nbsp; What I didn&#039;t anticipate was that people would ignore the new coins and leave whole series of US coins almost to me alone.&nbsp; This had practical benefits beyond just the ability to find great coins for face value.&nbsp; I could get to a coin show late becvause what I wanted wouldn&#039;t all be picked over by the early birds.&nbsp; I&#039;d even go on Saturday or Sunday sometimes!!!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But it goes way beyond this because I could watch the coins in circulation to learn about the economy since almost every single coin circulated freely.&nbsp; The very first ones that didn&#039;t were the bicentennial quarters.&nbsp; Even these have been instructive watching them come back in circulation when the states coins began and then flood in when the great recession hit.&nbsp; Most of the modern series are simply massive now and include many dozens of coins some of which have circulated for decades.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I can hardly imagine any coin more exciting than most moderns.&nbsp; Ya&#039; just never know what you&#039;re gonna get next.&nbsp; You can&#039;t go out and buy an XF 1969 quarter and you&#039;ll have a lot of difficulty finding a Gem without chicken scratching.&nbsp; No one seems to know such things because everyone finds them &quot;boring&quot; and they don&#039;t look.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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