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Message:: [QUOTE="Kasia, post: 8668184, member: 31533"]In 1982 and 1983 the Mint did not produce any Mint Sets. Mint sets are where people can get business strike P and D coins in uncirculated Mint States, usually in the mid-60s for grades. Without the mint doing this in these years, both 1982 and 1983 quarters are difficult to find in very high MS grades. All of the quarters from Philly and Denver were released to circulation and during the time people were collecting them, not too many were found to be very high quality in strikes. So it is what you call a conditional rarity. This means that a coin is rare and collectable in a certain range of grades (in this case, MS60-up for the 1982 P or D quarter especially) because there is not enough supply for the demand. A lot of people do collect the modern (1965-on) Washington Quarters and many people collect coins in uncirculated condition. I don't 'hoard' these but I certainly will pull out any coins that are in MS63 or above for 1982 and 1983 quarters. Those have a lot of value relative to what you might think they should be worth. One of those things that if you have knowledge that others don't and you happen upon something, you can make a bit of money off it sometime. I always will retain any quarter I think is worth a couple to a lot of bucks and not spend them in stores, etc.[/QUOTE]