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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3174221, member: 68&quot;]No.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t work this way with moderns.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The classics that survive are primarily random so any given coin had about an equal probability of survival today when it was produced.&nbsp;&nbsp; Today there is almost no randomness in what survives from the 1970&#039;s or the clad quarter era in general.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most of the coins that were saved in rolls originated among the few dealers selling the coins.&nbsp; These were located in western Pennsylvania, Greencastle, Indiana, and smaller sources in Ohio and California.&nbsp; For the main part any coin that wasn&#039;t released in these areas do not exist today in rolls or bags.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most of the coins that do exist were released in mint sets and only one major quarter variety exists in mint sets; &#039;81-P type &quot;d&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>All other varieties are scarce or rare and might not exist in Unc.&nbsp; Keep in mind though that I can&#039;t speak of other collectors and this disregards some f the varieties that were distributed in PA like the &#039;80-D type &quot;d&quot; that appears in Arlan Kramer&#039;s rolls. </p><p><br /></p><p>You also need to consider that the biggest sources didn&#039;t even distribute an entire $1000 bag (4000 pieces) of dates like the &#039;69-P quarter.&nbsp; There was no interest and the few who did collect just used mint sets.&nbsp;&nbsp; 1969 quarters from mint sets still in the packaging (500,000) are now ruined by tarnish.&nbsp; Most of the rest have been spent or lost in fires and floods.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This means even common varieties like the &#039;84-P type &quot;d&quot; quarter are very elusive in Unc.&nbsp; None appeared in mint sets and few people saved rolls.&nbsp;&nbsp; Despite accounting for 30% of mintage this coin isn&#039;t often seen better than a beat up VF.&nbsp;&nbsp; 1984-P quarters got beat up very quickly because they had very low rims to protect the design.&nbsp; For most practical purposes the coin is possibly non-existent in true Gem and hard to find in chBU.&nbsp; It&#039;s hardly rare in MS-60 but most of them are unattractive and few collectors have ever desired unattractive coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d guess 5 or 10 in Gem, several hundred in chBU, and a couple thousand in Unc.&nbsp; The coin is still not in any sort of demand just as a &#039;70-S cent in Gem has little demand unless it&#039;s the sm dt.&nbsp;&nbsp; PL &#039;70-D half dollars have no real premium unless they are high grade as well despite accounting for only ~1% of a mintage of 2,000,000.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Across the board in moderns we find rare coins that weren&#039;t in demand the day they were made and they still aren&#039;t.&nbsp; The article that prompted this thread is part of the reason and the other parts are bad price guides and bad third party grading.&nbsp; There is a widespread belief caused by modern bashers and people who don&#039;t collect moderns that they are all common.&nbsp; Q David Bowers even once suggested they are as common as grains of sand on the beach.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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