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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 3028350, member: 68"]This might be true but even if it were the fact remains it's irrelevant. It's irrelevant because virtually every single 1965 quarter made was a piece of garbage. They just didn't make many that were very high grade. Also don't forget people didn't save rolls of coins after 1964. Combine almost universal garbage production with a small population and you can be quite sure almost all high grade coins are SMS. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I tend to agree that it's easier and cheaper to just buy the coins slabbed. It used to require extreme effort to find these and now most of the nicest ones aren't even worth the cost of slabbing. </p><p><br /></p><p>But if you can get close to the head of the supply chain it's not that difficult to find original sets. These still come on the market and you can still find nice cameo coins. Indeed, once in a while you can even find a batch of the cherries among the cherry picked. </p><p><br /></p><p>There's not as much low hanging fruit as there was in the '80's or '90's but it's still out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 3028350, member: 68"]This might be true but even if it were the fact remains it's irrelevant. It's irrelevant because virtually every single 1965 quarter made was a piece of garbage. They just didn't make many that were very high grade. Also don't forget people didn't save rolls of coins after 1964. Combine almost universal garbage production with a small population and you can be quite sure almost all high grade coins are SMS. I tend to agree that it's easier and cheaper to just buy the coins slabbed. It used to require extreme effort to find these and now most of the nicest ones aren't even worth the cost of slabbing. But if you can get close to the head of the supply chain it's not that difficult to find original sets. These still come on the market and you can still find nice cameo coins. Indeed, once in a while you can even find a batch of the cherries among the cherry picked. There's not as much low hanging fruit as there was in the '80's or '90's but it's still out there.[/QUOTE]
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