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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3712298, member: 68&quot;]I&#039;ve been seeing a few more&nbsp; AU&#039;s as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s highly improbable the coins are being released from BU rolls because there are very few BU rolls.&nbsp; Even if all were released you&#039;d hardly see the effects in circulation.&nbsp; It could be mint sets but there aren&#039;t large numbers of mint sets left either.&nbsp; However mint set coins are tarnishing in large numbers so it&#039;s hardly impossible that these could get released.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But what I&#039;m seeing doesn&#039;t look like mint set coins.&nbsp; Also the distribution doesn&#039;t seem to be reflective of mint sets but rather more closely tied to mintage and what was circulating in 1998.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There were still some old quarters in nice condition in &#039;98 and when the states coins were released these attracted some attention.&nbsp; I suspect these are being rereleased now.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might be seeing something else and from your description I&#039;d guess you&#039;re close to some dealer&#039;s dumping ground.&nbsp; Dealers sometimes will dump thousands of old coins (usually from mint sets) into circulation because they are substandard, cull, or tarnished.&nbsp; These tend to go to a single bank and then will be distributed by the same several banks.&nbsp; Coins returned to the bank will tend to go to a counting house and then rerolled for distribution to their customers.&nbsp; This will cause samples coming from any of these banks to be contaminated with large numbers of high end quarters.&nbsp; This contamination tends to be very brief in duration as the coins spread out.&nbsp; Once the uncs stop hitting the bank within weeks you won&#039;t see them any longer.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes the FED will release coins that have been in storage a long time but this can&#039;t be what you&#039;re seeing because no quarters have sat in storage so long.&nbsp; It&#039;s very rare that these releases involve coins in storage over about seven years.&nbsp; About 80% of quarters are in near constant motion (minus piggy banks etc) and 20% can sit for 1 to 3 years in storage.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course this varies over time and is correlated to mintages.&nbsp; The higher the current mintage the faster they grind in circulation and the fewer are sitting out.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you could provide more details about what specific coins these are, their grades, and your location I could provide a better guess.&nbsp; But I&#039;ve got to believe you&#039;re seeing contaminated samples and it is unique to your location.&nbsp; I&#039;m seeing a few more (circulated) coins that were set aside in the late-&#039;90&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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