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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 264832, member: 68&quot;]&quot;Low mintage&quot; is not going to make any regular issue modern valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason is that the mintages are simply far too high and even high attrition can&#039;t change that in the foreseeable future.&nbsp; Collectors also tend to focus on the low mintages and save them selectively.&nbsp; Take the &#039;68-D quarter for example.&nbsp; Fewer than 100 million of these were made for circulation and it&#039;s the lowest mintage of all clads which actually circulated freely.&nbsp; After all these decades nearly half have been destroyed or lost and are gone forever.&nbsp; This still leaves about 50 million coins in circulation.&nbsp; Of these about 5 million have been pulled out by collectors in the last 9 years.&nbsp; More will be pulled out as the years go by and the average grade will drop.&nbsp; But this means there will probably be 3 or 4,000,000 nice VG and better examples in collectors&#039; hand in twenty years.&nbsp; This is too high a number to get much price movement.&nbsp; Few of these will be VF and XF because the coins were far too worn when people started saving them.&nbsp; These higher grade ones would have great potential except for one thing; this is one of the most common of all clad quarters in unc and most of these are nice attractive pieces.&nbsp; People haven&#039;t paid much attention to clad but everyone saw that the &#039;68-D was low mintage and some of these were set aside.&nbsp; This coin is more likely to be saved when mint sets are cut up as well.&nbsp; With more than a million nice attractive uncs the circs won&#039;t have as much demand.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the potential lies in the coins that are horrid in the mint sets or don&#039;t appear in the sets at all. 1971 quarters are very unsightly in the mint sets usually.&nbsp; Many collectors would prefer a nice attractive XF to the poorly made and scratched up junk in the sets.&nbsp; There are also the &#039;82 and &#039;83 (as well as many other) quarters which don&#039;t appear at all in sets.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the coins with the most potential are the varieties.&nbsp; These don&#039;t appear in the sets usually and THERE ARE NO ROLLS.&nbsp; Since there weren&#039;t BU rolls set aside the only place to find these is in circulation and high grade examples will prove extremely elusive.&nbsp; Even a common one like the &#039;79 type &quot;d&quot; reverse will prove a daunting challenge to find in a nice attractive VF or better.&nbsp; These coins are simply worn and banged up now days.&nbsp; This date was poorly made to start with and only about 1% of these are the type &quot;d&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I would save almost any nice attractive old clad.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see much point in saving ugly coins because, historically, collectors don&#039;t like ugly coins and it&#039;s unlikely they&#039;ll make an exception for clads.&nbsp; If you collect these you&#039;ll quickly learn that some coins are just easier to find than others.&nbsp; Coins like the &#039;72-D is far easier to find in lightly worn and attractive condition than something like the &#039;70-P.&nbsp; Concentrate on the toughies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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