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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3446151, member: 68&quot;]It&#039;s not the mintages that make so many moderns nearly worthless; it&#039;s lack of interest.&nbsp; How ironic that one of the primary reasons for lack of interest is newbies are told moderns are junk.&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me wrong here, there are several reasons and nearly one for all 7 billion people who don&#039;t collect them.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an example take the &#039;70-S sm dt cent.&nbsp; This is a very common coin because 10% of 1970 mint sets have one.&nbsp; About half of these are gone now but that leaves over 100,000 surviving examples. It&#039;s more common than a &#039;16-D dime and wholesales at around $40.&nbsp; Now compare this to a &#039;69 quarter.&nbsp; There are 80,000,000 in circulation but these are all culls and heavily worn.&nbsp; Finding a nice clean coin in F or better will take you months.&nbsp; There are only half a million mint sets left and most of these have very poorly made, scratched up, and tarnished quarters.&nbsp; Fewer than 4% of coins are nice attractive chBU or better.&nbsp; This means other than in several hundred collections there are only ~20,000 nice chBU &#039;69 quarters.&nbsp; Redbook lists it as a $3 coin and unc rolls whole at 75c per coin.&nbsp; Very few Unc rolls will have any chBU coins because they are assembled from mint sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are numerous tough cents too but they are far harder to identify because they are masked by low demand.&nbsp; You can&#039;t tell a common roll from a scarce roll because both will probably list for $1.&nbsp;&nbsp; Try finding a nice attractive &#039;84 with nice surfaces.&nbsp; No doubt there are still many of these in circulation in AU and higher but if someone posts one we generally aren&#039;t going to realize how special it really is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course this brings us to another question of why so much road kill gets posted.&nbsp; It takes time and effort to sign up and post a question with follow-up pictures.&nbsp; It seems apparent that most of those doing this legitimately believe their coin is potentially valuable.&nbsp; Without experience and knowledge almost any coin might appear scarce and damage can be mistaken for mint error.&nbsp; How do you google a specific coin with specific damage?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally there are a few people that seem to be trolls. Not the ones with several posts but the ones that get &quot;abused&quot; so they come back under another name to get &quot;even&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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