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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1928241, member: 68&quot;]I used to drive around from city to city and bank to bank looking for nice coins.&nbsp; I even had a system where I&#039;d get a few quarters from retailer&#039;s cash registers to see if there were any gemmy brand new quarters.&nbsp; If there were I&#039;d ask what bank they used and go there to get new rolls.&nbsp; It often worked.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What people don&#039;t realize is that finding Gems made for circulation was extremely difficult and no one was doing it.&nbsp; Very few typical rolls were set aside because people percieved all the clads as common.&nbsp; Almost every single year when the mint sets came out the coins were much nicer than what I could find through hard work and luck.&nbsp; Finding Gems in the wild was work but finding them in mint sets was like shooting fish in a barrel.&nbsp; Most years about 2% of mint set coins are Gem and another 5% are gemmy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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