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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 184474, member: 68&quot;]Some of the moderns will have far more surprising numbers in the future.&nbsp; Take a coin like the &#039;79-P Sm motto reverse quarter as an example.&nbsp; The regular mintage was 513 million. The sm motto was about 4 million. Mint sets 2 1/2 million and proofs 3 million.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Many&nbsp; of the proof sets are still intact and most of the coins from the busted up sets are still pristine.&nbsp; About 2 out of 3 &#039;79 proof quarters are as nice as the day they were made even if many are toned a little or a lot.&nbsp; Two thirds of the mint sets are probably gone and most of the quarters from them are now in circulation and some in collections.&nbsp; The regular mintage is pretty much gone!!!&nbsp; These coins were not saved in any meaningful way.&nbsp; 30% are actually lost permanently or destroyed and the others are in a mostly highly degraded condition.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The small motto quarters?&nbsp; Just like the regular coins these too, are pretty much gone as far as pristine condition is concerned.&nbsp; There were a mere handful of wholesalers for BU rolls in those days and spot checks of all their stocks say that none of these coins were saved!&nbsp; Most were released in the Chicago area and none of these wholesalers are located in that area.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If none of four million can survive in only 28 years then it&#039;s easy to see how only .1% of 400,000 might survive after more than a century.&nbsp; One of these days soon our coins are going to start being melted down and there will probably be very few circulated examples of many coins left either.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most eveything disappears at the rate of at least 1% annually except for big pyramids. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the way of the world; when time isn&#039;t busy flying it&#039;s busy bounding and leaping.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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