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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 473296, member: 68&quot;]Rolls are usually filled by big hoppers at the counting houses.&nbsp; These are Brinks, Wells Fargo, Purolator etc who contract with the FED to supply banks with coin.&nbsp; The hopper is mostly filled with returned coins from the banks and these tend to always be totally random; any coin in circulation has about the same chance of going in the roll.&nbsp; Collectors do sort coins a little so it&#039;s possible to get something like a roll with eight or nine 1971-D&#039;s in it but this will be unusual.&nbsp; Returned rolls from customers are often sorted.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There won&#039;t always be enough returned coins from the banks to keep the hopper full so they&#039;ll run a jumbo bag of brand new coin.&nbsp; These are the size of the old pallets of coins and are handled by forklifts.&nbsp; They may or may not empty the hopper before putting these in so there can be mixed rolls when they start and end the jumbo bag.&nbsp; These bags are so large that they will always run a lot of solid new coin rolls in between, I believe. New coin can be anything up to three years old.&nbsp; The FED and Mint rotate out the coins they&#039;ve held the longest so three years is about the oldest any coins can stay in storage.&nbsp; Different FED districts consume vastly different amounts of new coins because of regional usage patterns for coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My personal favorite of the circulating coins is the quarter.&nbsp; It used to be that this coin was almost not picked over at all but in the last several years it has become picked over somewhat.&nbsp; But those collectiong this coin tend to not be extremely sophisticated and pass up some of the most desirable varieties.&nbsp; You can still put together a nice VF/ XF set with a lot of later date AU&#039;s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever denomination you settle on it&#039;s a good idea to assemble a nice set as a reference and they become a goal inthemselves as well as a source of pride.&nbsp; With most clads it might be wise ro pay a lot of attention to strike.&nbsp; So many of these are poorly made that it&#039;s difficult to find nice attractive specimens.&nbsp; Your set will look better if you avoid the poor strikes, culls, and tarnished coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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