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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2724950, member: 68&quot;]When I acquired a bag of 1982-P quarters from a local bank the vault manager found the request so odd that he contacted several Chicago area banks and asked them if any had ever heard of someone wanting new coins to set aside.&nbsp; They told him they had never heard of such a thing since back in the 1960&#039;s (1964) except for pennies. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can assure you even if you wanted nice 1982/ &#039;83 nickels that you&#039;d have had a fantastically difficult job to get them.&nbsp; But finding them was the hard part.&nbsp; It was even harder than finding nice quarters. </p><p><br /></p><p>No mechanism existed in 1982 to set coins aside. There was no infrastructure.&nbsp; The average person would have encountered about 100 brand new 1982 quarters in every day trade during &#039;82 to &#039;84 and 99 of them were junk.&nbsp; One was anywhere from nice MS-64 to MS-67.&nbsp; Almost nobody noticed the nice coin they encountered and if they had they&#039;d have probably spent it. </p><p><br /></p><p>These coins aren&#039;t cheap because they are common.&nbsp; They are cheap because few people want them.&nbsp; The grading services overgrade them quite a bit but true Gem &#039;82 quarters are rare.&nbsp; I seriously doubt even ten exist and nickels are tougher.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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