Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="VistaCruiser69, post: 26122856, member: 107016"]Same here, I get them in my change every week.  Probably because so many people collected/ hoarded & held onto them over the years thinking they would be worth more than .25 someday.  That day hasn't come yet so they end up throwing them back into circulation, thus lengthening the years of service life they have.  In other words, if no one had collected (preserved) them for many years, most of them would have been completely worn out from being in circulation and most likely damaged to the point of being removed by this time.  Since so many people collected/hoarded so many of them, (my mother perhaps being possibly one of the top prolific bicentennial quarter hoarders of all time), and over recent years releasing their hoard back into circulation, it's not uncommon to get these in good shape in everyday change. Another year I get frequently is the 1965 quarters, in comparison to all other 1966 - 1969 quarters I get in my change. I think a lot of people must have hoarded those over the years as well.  Because it was the year that the materials they were made from changed, and there are a lot of people who think that they will be worth more since they have a silver content to them, or at least believe they have a silver content to them.[/QUOTE]