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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 24680263, member: 13650&quot;]It&#039;s good to understand that there are coins made for circulation that *can* get valuable in high grades due to conditional rarity.&nbsp; Like that one. There may be hundreds or thousands of MS-66s which technically is an excellent, near perfect grade and a small minority out of the millions made.&nbsp; But still plenty to satisfy demand, which keeps the value down.&nbsp;&nbsp; Only so much interest.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Once you surpass that level and go to 67 the population may drop off a lot.&nbsp; Usually takes perfect condition, strike, high luster.&nbsp; A rare condition specimen.&nbsp; Those might be worth $100 as an example.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then if there&#039;s one or two examples deemed MS-68 by the graders, they are a conditional rarity that people with registry sets will likely bid up to have the finest know because they are worth the most points for the spot in the registry.&nbsp; This is where a lot of that comes from.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most people on this forum, literally a coin collecting forum, would not pay $100 for any modern circulation quarter.&nbsp; &nbsp; But some will pay thousands for the right one for their set.&nbsp;&nbsp; The next time it goes on sale it may go for much more or much less.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Then you have collector versions like the silver proof set,&nbsp; satin proof sets, mint sets, that will have quarters with the same designs.&nbsp;&nbsp; The majority of these will be excellent condition all the way up to MS69 and 70 so you&#039;d think those should be really valuable, but it&#039;s not really that impressive because they&#039;re supposed to be flawless.&nbsp; The majority will be that way so again, prices will stay relatively low for those reasons. </p><p>&nbsp;The top grade in the plain old Ps and D&#039;s meant for circulation ( read as, no special handling so they get beat up on their way to huge mint bags to bang around against others) are usually a much bigger deal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s really no point looking for one.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would imagine some dealer somewhere who gets a discount at some third party grader sends in rolls of quarters for them to grade and lets them have at it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe a flyer ends up coming out of that submission that ends up paying for the whole submission with profit left over.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most of the time, no.&nbsp; It&#039;d just be like finding a lucky scratch ticket.&nbsp; &nbsp; You&#039;ll lose money playing that game.&nbsp; But that gives you an idea how one might come about in MS-68.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Most rolls meant for circulation will not be worth the cost of submitting (can be $25 with discount up to $50 per coin full turn around if you do it yourself).&nbsp;&nbsp; Grading is costly and takes a long time to get anything back.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; You could spend a grand getting a random mint roll of quarters graded.&nbsp; &nbsp; Get it all back and maybe get a couple hundred back out of it if you spend the time to list them all individually, pack them, ship them, deal with people, etc.&nbsp; If you could sell them at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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