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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 775740, member: 68"]Cool. His name will come to me later. I always enjoyed reading his ads and following them. </p><p><br /></p><p>While AU 1986 coins will prove to be winners in the long term probably you should be aware of a couple things. The reason they'lll be winners is thety were in circulation a long time before people realized the BU rolls were tough. That means there weren't many AU coins left so few were saved. </p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatic News released information about the scarcity of the 1982 quarters in early 1985 which allowed thoudands of people to start gathering up AU's from circulation so now these are relatively common. Indeed, they are so common that a few slip out and you can find them back in circulation; still AU. There's a large premium on these and it's probably unjustified. </p><p><br /></p><p>Other clad tends to be scarce in AU and older clad is even tough in XF. A few dates are tough in VF. As with uncs it's hard to find nicely made examples from good dies. Many of the older clads in high grade are from mint sets which contain much better made coins so you might get a little distorted picture of what's typical by looking only at these.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 775740, member: 68"]Cool. His name will come to me later. I always enjoyed reading his ads and following them. While AU 1986 coins will prove to be winners in the long term probably you should be aware of a couple things. The reason they'lll be winners is thety were in circulation a long time before people realized the BU rolls were tough. That means there weren't many AU coins left so few were saved. Numismatic News released information about the scarcity of the 1982 quarters in early 1985 which allowed thoudands of people to start gathering up AU's from circulation so now these are relatively common. Indeed, they are so common that a few slip out and you can find them back in circulation; still AU. There's a large premium on these and it's probably unjustified. Other clad tends to be scarce in AU and older clad is even tough in XF. A few dates are tough in VF. As with uncs it's hard to find nicely made examples from good dies. Many of the older clads in high grade are from mint sets which contain much better made coins so you might get a little distorted picture of what's typical by looking only at these.[/QUOTE]
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