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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3278483, member: 68&quot;]What I meant was not even 100,000 were set aside. </p><p><br /></p><p>Attrition on these hasn&#039;t been so staggering as the attrition on most moderns but is still substantial.&nbsp; A lot of dealers will tell heirs who bring clad into the shop to just spend it.&nbsp; Others are lost in disasters. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is hardly a &quot;rare&quot; coin in BU but many of the older coins that have big price tags are more common.&nbsp; And unlike the older coins which are often collected in grades down to Fair most clad is collected only in BU or down to nice XF.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But the biggest thing is that there are huge numbers of Gem and high end BU collections of clad quarters.&nbsp; In this case I mean there are several of thousands of them but this date (and others) are actually much scarcer than the number of collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>These coins tend toward the awful.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have far more experience with the &#039;82-P which is different than (but comparable to) the &#039;83-P so will speak to it instead.&nbsp; This coin was very poorly struck. I&#039;ve seen examples from every single die and only a very few ever could have made a nice coin because they were aligned poorly and set at too low of pressure.&nbsp; Then these dies were&nbsp; overused extensively. The coins were usually scratched in the coin handling equipment. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody cared about collecting clad in those days and the mint didn&#039;t care what they looked like so most looked like junk.&nbsp; Since nobody cared nobody set aside any of this junk anyway. Most of what survived, survived &quot;accidently&quot; or in mint sets made to fill a very unsophisticated demand. </p><p><br /></p><p>It was exceedingly difficult to find nicely made coin back in those days and &#039;82 and &#039;83 were worse.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>WashQuartJesse shows a spectacularly made coin above but I&#039;d guess there weren&#039;t even ten or twenty of this quality that survive today if the picture is indicative of true appearance.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure there is a single &#039;82-P&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; that I&#039;d grade a true Gem (MS-65).&nbsp;&nbsp; Sure the services grade&nbsp; many poorly made coins at this level but it doesn&#039;t change the fact that even nice MS-64&#039;s are rare for the &#039;82-P.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I expect demand to continue to creep higher for clads and for the collections for which they are demanded to continue to grow and improve.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how a demand for tens of thousands of coins where the supply is essentially &quot;zero&quot; to not have an effect on price and the ability to locate choice specimens. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t really have any nice &#039;83-P&#039;s despite advertising to pay $40 @ all through the &#039;80&#039;s and &#039;90&#039;s.&nbsp; I never got lucky.&nbsp; I did get lucky with the even scarcer &#039;82-P and was able to set several aside.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just like with varieties, if you could find one nice gemmy coin there would be others with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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