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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 5139760, member: 68&quot;]Nobody set aside clad after 1966.&nbsp;&nbsp; Nobody noticed it wasn&#039;t set aside because nobody collected it and there were ample numbers of fresh mint sets of far higher quality than the coins in rolls.&nbsp; Everyone knew that there would be no mint sets in 1982 so thousands of rolls were set aside.&nbsp; But the thing is more and more and more people collect clad every year starting around 1980 and thousands of rolls don&#039;t go very far.&nbsp; The rolls were split up and sold individually and few are left.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Only about 80,000 (P) coins were saved because quality was abysmal and it was hard to find any coins worth saving.&nbsp; But demand is still so weak that it&#039;s unknown that nice quality MS-64 or better examples are quite scarce.&nbsp; Even though nice coins go6t saved most are ugly MS-64 or lower.&nbsp; The coins were poorly struck by overused dies and most were heavily marked in distribution.&nbsp; Nice examples from new dies are virtually unknown.&nbsp; Keep in mind that dies struck nearly a million coins in those days so finding one from the first ten strikes even in a population of 80,000 is difficult or impossible.&nbsp; Dies weren&#039;t aligned well or set properly so even fresher die strikes are rarely fully struck.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a tough date above AU55.&nbsp; Nice AU-58&#039;s are highly elusive but ugly sliders are almost common.&nbsp; It is sliders that are in most of the retail sets.&nbsp; Dealers just can&#039;t get Uncs so&nbsp; they use sliders.&nbsp; If they competed for real Uncs the price would be far higher.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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