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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1522059, member: 68&quot;]I think many people might be putting too much emphasis on a term like &quot;conditional rarity&quot;. Sure a 1982-P quarter could hardly be more common in VF.&nbsp; There are still hundreds of millions in circulation and even a few XF&#039;s and AU&#039;s but try finding a 1969 quarter in VF.&nbsp; In fact try finding any nicely made 1969 quarter above F condition.&nbsp; There are a couple million in circulation that no one is looking for because they&#039;re too smart and there are a few still in mint sets but no one ever noticed that most of the mint set quarters looked like junk the day they were made and now they&#039;re corroded.&nbsp; Nice attractive MS-63 and better coins are already somewhat elusive and that&#039;s with almost nobody at all collecting them.&nbsp; What would happen if millions of people decided they wanted a collection of all the quarters in circulation instead of only the post-&#039;98 issues?&nbsp; It hardly stops here though since there are countless varieties that are rare in grades over VF and none too common even in worn out condition.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Each year that goes by there are fewer and fewer of the old coins and those left are in worse and worse condition.&nbsp; It&#039;s not that there is a large supply that makes the price so low, it&#039;s the fact that there is no demand at all.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For many years you couldn&#039;t give a 1954 Indian proof set away.&nbsp; They&#039;d sit in dealer inventory until he got tired of them and cut them up to sell by the pound.&nbsp; They were never common just shunned because they were base metal modern junk.&nbsp; Now they are worth $2,750.&nbsp; Everyone tells me to sell but I know how tough these are.&nbsp; I&#039;ve found a few singles in junk boxes and have only a single set.&nbsp; Why sell?&nbsp; The banks pay .015% interest and this thing increases about 1000% annually.&nbsp; Our economy continues under pressure due to lack of competition and government activities while the Indian economy continues to grow.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>US moderns will have their day someday.&nbsp; It might be many years from now but, I believe, it&#039;s already at least three decades overdue. Maybe when things recover people will begin to wake up to how tough most of these coins really are if you want a complete collection in nice attractive condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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