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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2560641, member: 112&quot;]I agree, but perhaps not in the same regard that it seems you do. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Short and sweet, I think history is repeating itself - again. And I say again because I believe it is a scenario that has played out many times in the past. Throughout history coin collecting has experienced periods of popularity and periods of unpopularity. And the moderns, the coins that were modern at the times, they pretty much always suffered neglect, a lack of interest, the same stigma if you will, at all times but especially during the periods of unpopularity.</p><p><br /></p><p>If one takes a broad look at the values of certain coins, going back as far as you want, there are plenty of examples of coins rarely found in higher grades. Examples where any MS coin is indeed a rarity, and XF and even VF examples are tough to find and expensive to boot. This is the same scenario that cladking is describing regarding the moderns of today, or say the last 50-60 years. </p><p><br /></p><p>And regarding the classics being in collections that you mention, Sam, only to surface later; well I kinda believe that there are some of those collections of today&#039;s moderns out there as well. Take a look at your own collection for example. One of these days that collection will come on the market. And I don&#039;t think you&#039;re the only one that has one. I believe there are others, that just don&#039;t talk about it like you do. Maybe because they don&#039;t want other collectors looking at them sideways, maybe they want to keep the idea secret and unto themselves, hoping, maybe even knowing, that the payday will come - eventually.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, I can remember back around the turn of the century when a friend of mine, knowing that I was a numismatist, came to me at work one day and said - Doug, I just inherited a large coin collection, would you take a look at it for me ? Of course I said yes, but never quite expecting what I was getting myself into. He showed up at my home one evening after work with the back of his truck loaded with storage bin after storage bin full of coins. This collection he wanted me to take a look at was not measured in the number of coins - it was measured in the hundreds of pounds ! And all but a handful of those coins were minted after 1900, with the vast majority minted after 1950. It took me months, many months, to go through it !</p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah, there are those out there who do have these collections. That one alone would boggle even your mind Sam. And in the years to come they will surface just as the rarities of the classics surfaced in their time. Just as rarities have always surfaced throughout the history of coin collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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