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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2560745, member: 68&quot;]I watched these markets for a very long time and I just don&#039;t believe there are modern collections out there other than those assembled&nbsp; relatively recently.&nbsp; The interest started around 1980 but there might not have been a dozen collectors in the early days. By &#039;90 it was a few dozen and and a couple thousand by 2000.&nbsp; Now days I&#039;d estimate 10,000 but in addition to these there are half a million casual collectors of the old clad quarters.&nbsp; It&#039;s these casual collectors exerting an influence on the market as they try to complete or upgrade their collections.&nbsp; Much of the pressure right now that is about to affect prices is dollars and half dollars; the numbers are lower is but so too is the supply. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes, I know there are lots of collections assembled by wholesalers out there but these are rarely very nice and will have little impact on the supply for the more important coins. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve seen what comes into the shops for the past 40 years and none of it is nice modern collections.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen massive hoards of XF/ AU better date early clads and have taken these to the bank.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen the sets that people bought retail or from HSN.&nbsp; What I&#039;ve never actually seen is a collection that was carefully assembled of choice coins and included a few of the varieties. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes, I have what I think is a nice collection.&nbsp; I started assembling it in the late-70&#039;s from the Gems I acquired from driving around to banks and coin shows.&nbsp; I also have been able to amass a few thousand more Gems over the years but what I couldn&#039;t do is save everything.&nbsp; I simply couldn&#039;t afford to tie a lot of money up in coins that might never be worth anything.&nbsp; So when I bought a nice gemmy bag of 1982-P quarters from my bank all I could do was pull out the nicest few and return the balance. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes, there are a few other entities who have done about the exact same thing.&nbsp; I can only guess how many coins they have but nobody can have a controlling share of the coins because they were so widely dispersed.&nbsp; Acquiring them is difficult, time consuming, and hard work.&nbsp; I doubt if all the &quot;hoarders&quot; all together have 10% of the market.&nbsp; The rest are out there in private collections, registry sets, but mostly still in the &quot;wild&quot;; sitting in mint sets and dealer stock. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m selling into the current strenght a little bit but mostly for strategic reasons.&nbsp; I can&#039;t even break even at current prices far less make a profit on the money I&#039;ve tied up in some of this.&nbsp; My current big project is just to get my safety deposit boxes organized well enough I can find the coins to sell.&nbsp; Right now the market needs supply.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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