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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 159955, member: 68&quot;]There are a lot of reasons they think all moderns are junk but the biggest reason is that everyone lost interest in brand new coins when silver was removed from them.&nbsp; This happened world-wide one country at a time starting right after WW II.&nbsp; In almost every single instance collectors stopped collecting the new coins because they considered them junk.&nbsp; This was largely caused by the sky high mintages necessary to replace all the silver coins in circulation.&nbsp; Usually inflation and exuberance by the issuing authority that they could make coins at a very low cost assured that mintages then stayed high.&nbsp; If this weren&#039;t sufficient then there was often a lowering of minting standards since cu/ ni is a harder metal and wears dies more quickly and increased coinage demand meant cutting corners in production. This further reinforced collector sentiment that the coins were junk.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This has resulted in numerous scarcities of coins made in the tens and hundreds of millions.&nbsp; Many moderns are far scarcer than the older coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers also see what &quot;walks into the shop&quot;.&nbsp; They don&#039;t see many gem seated liberty quarters and they do see boxes of &quot;modern junk&quot;.&nbsp; Since like most collectors they consider all moderns to be junk, they simply don&#039;t take a closer look to see what isn&#039;t in the boxes or even what is.&nbsp; There are lots of moderns that are common but this doesn&#039;t make them junk.&nbsp; There are lots of moderns that are quite scarce and this is making them quite valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone should try to just collect what they enjoy and not worry about what other collectors think.&nbsp; Collectors usually do better than sheep anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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