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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1613815, member: 68&quot;]I&#039;ve been coin roll hunting since 1957.&nbsp; Never before have there been easier pickings of numismatically great coins than there are today.&nbsp; These scarce and rare coins are out there because people aren&#039;t looking for scarce coins but for silver and obsolete type.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1957 all the coins were heavily picked over but they were only picked over for scarce dates and obsolete type.&nbsp; There were millions of coin collectors so even pretty common coins like a &#039;24-D lincoln rarely appeared in circulation and when it did it was a cast-off; a cull.&nbsp; All the fractional coins were silver of course.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>By 1965 it was all garbage in circulation.&nbsp; Buffalos were dateless and silver was picked clean of anything even remotely interesting.&nbsp; If someone claims to have gotten a rare date they are lying or caught a coin that accidently got back into circulation.&nbsp; Every sinmgle coin had been checked by a collector hundreds of times.&nbsp; Silver started flowing out of circulation for real in 1968 when the price got over face value.&nbsp; By mid-&#039;69 the government quit pulling it out because there wasn&#039;t enough left to bother.&nbsp; Clad coins were often brand new coins being released back to 1965.&nbsp; By 1971 the silver was gone completely. One could get out of an old piggy bank but it disappeared immediately.&nbsp; Silver still worked in vending machines so one could circulate only in theory.&nbsp; The incidence of silver hit its lowest poiint in &#039;74 and held steady for decades.&nbsp; About 1 quarter in 6000 was silver if you could acquire a random sample but some coins were still being sorted for silver so you might never see one.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In 2008 when the depression hit silver started showing up again.&nbsp; This is the result of foreclosures and the like. Right now lots of silver is still going into circulation but it still isn&#039;t circulating and will not work in most vending machines.&nbsp; It can&#039;t even circulate in theory.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you want good coins in circulation you have to go back to 1939 during the previous depression. </p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I&#039;d rather look through the coins today since there are scarcer and more interesting coins even if the &#039;39 coins were very valuable by today&#039;s standards.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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