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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 3719875, member: 68"]Yes. Those quarters are in remarkable condition and must have been released in recent times.</p><p><br /></p><p>But to put this in perspective back in 1964 most 1932 quarters were very heavily worn with Good being typical and AG quite common. Once in a long while even a Fair would show up. But it was not in the least unusual to find an AU. XF's were not very difficult. This happened because the mint did not rotate their coin stocks in those days and coins could sit in storage, lost in the back of the vault, for decades. In 1972 the FED and mint began rotating their stocks so old high grade coins are quite atypical. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have to imagine the scarce and valuable '67 was released because it's a dog. Buyers want chBU so these tend to get weeded out and spent. Perhaps the increase in the incidence of high grades is reflective of more interest in this now long obsolete series. Ike dollar rolls are now wholesaling at $60 per roll!!! These are limitedly available and do change hands at this price. Prices for rolls of clad quarters are essentially moot because there are no rolls of clad quarters, no market for clad quarters, and they very rarely change hands.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 3719875, member: 68"]Yes. Those quarters are in remarkable condition and must have been released in recent times. But to put this in perspective back in 1964 most 1932 quarters were very heavily worn with Good being typical and AG quite common. Once in a long while even a Fair would show up. But it was not in the least unusual to find an AU. XF's were not very difficult. This happened because the mint did not rotate their coin stocks in those days and coins could sit in storage, lost in the back of the vault, for decades. In 1972 the FED and mint began rotating their stocks so old high grade coins are quite atypical. I have to imagine the scarce and valuable '67 was released because it's a dog. Buyers want chBU so these tend to get weeded out and spent. Perhaps the increase in the incidence of high grades is reflective of more interest in this now long obsolete series. Ike dollar rolls are now wholesaling at $60 per roll!!! These are limitedly available and do change hands at this price. Prices for rolls of clad quarters are essentially moot because there are no rolls of clad quarters, no market for clad quarters, and they very rarely change hands.[/QUOTE]
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