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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 480637, member: 68&quot;]No, you&#039;d be amazed at how few rolls were being saved in those days.&nbsp; It was up considerably from the early &#039;70&#039;s and late &#039;60&#039;s but still it was probably only in the realm of about 60,000 coins.&nbsp; (1500 rolls) (15 bags).&nbsp; 1981 rolls were advertised for sale right up to the mid-&#039;90&#039;s in the coin papers at very low prices.&nbsp; They&#039;re no longer in stock but original rolls are still see today if you look hard enough.&nbsp; There&#039;s little interest in these rolls since quality is poor and nice coins are available in the mint set.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the root of the reason rolls wern&#039;t saved; quality was horrendous.&nbsp; You can get an excellent idea of the absolute numbers saved by counting the varieties which don&#039;t appear in mint sets.&nbsp; The type &quot;d&quot; &#039;81-D, for instance doesn&#039;t appear in sets and accounts for about 3% of production.&nbsp; Finding one of these in unc is nearly impossible because the rolls are mostly still intact in storage or have been busted up and spent.&nbsp; Few of the coins from these rolls are available for sale.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But it changed in &#039;82.&nbsp; There wasn&#039;t a lot of warning that sets wouldn&#039;t be made and it was certainly not big news to almost everyone but it was news.&nbsp; Some people did go out and buy rolls and bags in &#039;82 and several private concerns made mint sets.&nbsp; The total was probabaly in excess of about 120,000 for the &#039;82-P quarter and similar for the &#039;83-P.&nbsp; Attrition was initially very high as it has been for all moderns but by May of 1985 Numismatic News was running stories on the difficulty of finding these coins and the attrition slowed.&nbsp; By 1987 the &#039;82-P had developed a large premium but this wasn&#039;t because there were fewer rolls it was because all the demand was focused on the rolls because there were no mint sets.&nbsp; Soon enough the paucity of the other coins of these dates began to become apparent.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I remember thinking on my way back from Sandusky Ohio with my gem &#039;82 NMM that it was ironic that the &#039;82-P in high grade would probably be more valuable in the long run.&nbsp; I believe this has already occurred only a quarter century later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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