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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2560165, member: 68&quot;]Certainly.&nbsp; Yes.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The thing that has always surprised me is that even the scarcer moderns have never had the kind of demand to drive up the price.&nbsp; Most just don&#039;t understand that some dates of these just always look like garbage and they weren&#039;t saved so even the garbage specimens aren&#039;t around any longer.&nbsp; One of the most dramatic examples of this is the 1969-P quarter.&nbsp; The rolls were so horrendous and the interest so low that it&#039;s virtually impossible to find an original BU roll of these.&nbsp; People didn&#039;t set them aside because they were so ugly. You&#039;ll see rolls advertised but without exception these will be mint set rolls.&nbsp; The mint set coins tend to be ugly as well.&nbsp; About 8% of mint set coins are nice MS-63 or better.&nbsp; Well, they were nice MS-63 or better but over the years most of the sets have tarnished so now even among the few surviving sets it can be difficult to find choice specimens.&nbsp; It&#039;s not a case that the coins from the destroyed sets are still around either.&nbsp; Most of the coins from destroyed sets have been spent because they were ugly.&nbsp; Only a few percent (~1%) of the original mintage is on the market or readily available for sale and only about 3% of these have nice pristine Philly quarters.&nbsp; This implies a &quot;ready supply&quot; of only some 540 coins!!!&nbsp; You might say &quot;collectors don&#039;t need a choice specimen because most will be satisfied with MS-60&quot; but the reality is these coins are ugly so collectors may not be satisfied with them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Across the board these considerations apply to all the circulating moderns to a greater or lesser extent.&nbsp; There are lots of coins that are nearly as tough and if you desire Gems are even tougher. With the classics the coins were in collections and it was just a matter of time until another collection came on the market but there are no old time collections of moderns because there was a stigma attached to collecting them.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s also not a simple matter of plucking AU&#039;s or XF&#039;s from circulation. These coins were sometimes attractive but they are long gone, lost to the ravages of time and wear.&nbsp; Indeed, even finding nice attractive VF&#039;s can be very difficult.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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