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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3723430, member: 68&quot;]About 1 quarter per roll now days has what I call a &quot;collectible&quot; eagle reverse quarter.&nbsp; By this I mean the coin is not a cull or otherwise ugly.&nbsp; It also presumes it is not in lower than VG- condition.&nbsp; Most of these &quot;collectible&quot; quarters are common date and in only about VF condition.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most hoards of quarters like this one also are tapped on a regular basis because the owner needs a little extra cash or just some coins for tolls.&nbsp; As a rule there are almost no quarters that have sat out of circulation for more than ten years.&nbsp; People don&#039;t have piggy banks any longer and coins tend to get picked up and spent (or redeemed).&nbsp; If he had started this jar in 1982 and never taken a coin out there would be a few BU &#039;82-P&#039;s and a dozen nice AU&#039;s.&nbsp; But I&#039;d lay odds that there are no BU&#039;s and only a very few AU&#039;s.&nbsp; It almost always works this way and that&#039;s why high grade old quarters stand out so much and get attention.&nbsp; Even in the early &#039;80&#039;s people would question me when I spent a few old quarters in BU.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>People imagine a nice pristine chBU 1971 quarter can easily be found but it&#039;s just imagination.&nbsp; There are no rolls and mint set coins are tarnished.&nbsp; Quarters from the &#039;80 aren&#039;t really any easier but at least the mint sets aren&#039;t tarnished (yet).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Generally one receives only 10 or 12 BU coins per year in change.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even if your friend never tapped his water jug and didn&#039;t move it around excessively we&#039;d only be talking some 400 coins and all later dates.&nbsp;&nbsp; All you have to do to know I&#039;m right is gather up a couple hundred quarters from the mid-&#039;80&#039;s and separate them by grade.&nbsp; Because the FED rotates their stock the coins will lay in a narrow range of grade and they&#039;ll mostly all be ugly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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