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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 148268, member: 68&quot;]Clad quarters wear very slowly because they are extremely durable and their light weight means less force as they slide over surfaces and each other.&nbsp; They also have a low velocity (turnover) in circulation and often sit for a few months or years in mint storage.&nbsp; Each time a quarter trades hands it has about a 10% chance of sitting for weeks in a vending machine or up to three years in storage smoewhere.&nbsp; Couple with the fact that they turn over only about eight times a month anymore and few people carry them in pockets and do strenuous work or exercise and you have a prescription for all the coins wearing albeit slowly.&nbsp; Collectors for the main part have never set most of these aside so they&#039;ve all acquired significant wear mostly in proportion to their age.&nbsp; The &#039;76 is less worn since these spend much more time in the hands of horders.&nbsp; Historically only 20% are in circulation but since the states coins were released this is now up to around 60% and some are starting to show their age.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Since these wear so slowly if you set aside a VG 1967 quarter today there are still enough F&#039;s and VF&#039;s that some of these will still be in better condition than your VG in&nbsp; twenty years.&nbsp; For this reason I&#039;d suggest saving only the nicer versions.&nbsp; Even more strongly though I&#039;d suggest assembling a collection of these comprised of the best examples you can find.&nbsp; This makes a fun and challenging set and it will show you just what is possible and highlight the differences between coins referred to as varieties.&nbsp; Before you spend those lower grade coins it might be wise to check them for the various varieties.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1983-P quarter is mispriced in most guides in unc for some reason.&nbsp; This coin trades at $25 wholesale and you can not find a true unc for $7.&nbsp; Be careful as there are lots of coins on the market which are nearly uncirculated and priced at 25 or $30.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>High grade, nicely made &#039;83 quarters should be retained.&nbsp; These actually retail for up to $20 as AU&#039;s.&nbsp; There are two types of reverses on the &#039;83-P though neither is especially tough.&nbsp; The scarcer type &quot;d&quot; or small motto is characterized by a greater distance between the right side of the &quot;N&quot; in &quot;UNUM&quot; and the eagle&#039;s head than the large motto (type &quot;c&quot;) version.&nbsp; All souvenir set coins are type &quot;c&quot;.&nbsp; Of the eight different privately made mint sets six do not contain type &quot;d&quot;.&nbsp; Of the two that do, they are scarce in the set.&nbsp; In unc the type &quot;d&quot; is quite a bit tougher.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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