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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 13665, member: 68&quot;]Collecting the &#039;76 quarters can be a lot of fun and &quot;investing&quot; in them may not be very profitable.&nbsp; It all depends on how one goes about it.&nbsp; If you&#039;re searching for varieties (only a few and all are rare), gems, or something different in some way then I&#039;d predict that you will do far better than most would imagine.&nbsp; This based on the simple fact that these have always been taken for granted. Tens of millions of these coins were set aside in rolls when they were issued because everyone thought they&#039;d be valuable, but almost no one bothered to look at the coins and see that they were almost all very poorly struck and were covered in marks.&nbsp; So this didn&#039;t drive people to seek the finest examples which are available in the &#039;75 and &#039;76 mint sets.&nbsp; The best of these coins are fully struck and very proof like.&nbsp; They have a satiny luster which isn&#039;t much seen on gems from that era.&nbsp; They are extremely scarce in the &#039;75 set accounting for only about .5% of production but abound in the &#039;76 set at about 3%.&nbsp; One knows that people weren&#039;t looking at these coins because these numbers didn&#039;t change over the years.&nbsp; Even today after a couple years of heavy cherry picking these coins still regularly show up in these sets albeit at a lower rate.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Saving typical circ examples is not going to make one rich.&nbsp; Today they wholesale at $14 per roll and there are probably more in circulation than ever before.&nbsp; Nearly half the mintage is in circulation but the attrition on this date is low since these haven&#039;t circulated extensively.&nbsp; Attrition is probably around 15% or a little higher.&nbsp; As an investment these are a real long shot.&nbsp; With so many available it would take an enormous demand to push the price up.&nbsp; Ones exposure to loss though is much higher than the mere quarter one sets aside.&nbsp; Inflation can devastate this investment over a sufficiently long period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some gems now sell for up to $2,000 per coin, and this is not a bad rate of return for a quarter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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