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Message:: [QUOTE="cladking, post: 2525040, member: 68"]I advertised to buy any Gem '82 or '83 quarter starting in the late-'80's and continuing through the mid-'90's for $40.  People would be surprised how few I recieved.  Some sent to me were mere pocket change and some were obviously choiced out of rolls but I recieved very few Gems.  People who think true Gems with good strikes and clean surfaces are out there should go look for themselves.  Very few of these were set aside and most are junky. True Gems of some of these, like the '82-P are probably legitimately rare and possibly non-existent.  This is just the way it is and services putting MS-65 lipstick on Philadelphia pigs changes nothing at all.  Rolls were set aside.  Far more rolls of '82 and '83 quarters were saved than any of the other dates of the era.  But the aggregate number of rolls saved was only a couple thousand '82-P and a similar number of '83-P.  People have no clue just how ignored these coins were in 1983 and still are.[/QUOTE]