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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 3145876, member: 68&quot;]OK, I admit it.&nbsp; Like most of us who started collecting coins in 1957 I&#039;m getting a little long in the tooth.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been just using reading glasses to look over roll coins for decades and get out a magnifier only for interesting coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Quarters have been getting increasingly &quot;ratty&quot; for a long time because most of their wear now comes from dinging around in coin counters rather than sliding around in pockets.&nbsp; But [USER=95853]@Robert91791[/USER] &#039;s thread with pictures of coins made me think he was a poor photographer.&nbsp; Actually that&#039;s what quarters look like with stronger reading glasses!&nbsp;&nbsp; Most of the quarters now are pretty bad with my latest sample being 46% of eagle reverse coins are culls and almost all the rest are ratty from scratches.&nbsp; I found only a single pre-1979 quarter in 5 rolls that I&#039;d deem &quot;collectible.&nbsp; It is a nice attractive &#039;70-D in VF-.&nbsp; There are lots of later states and parks quarters that are nice including a few nice Gems of recent issues all the way back to last year.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But for the main part everything is all scratched up.&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps they&#039;re using larger hoppers now and coins get marked up going through them.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It feels strange to me because this seems like it happened almost overnight.&nbsp;&nbsp; These coins went from even younger than I am to almost as old.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It can truly be said that time don&#039;t fly, it bounds and leaps.&nbsp; The tide comes in rather suddenly whether you watch it or just watch (dr) moon.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you haven&#039;t seen Robert91791&#039;s thread, check it out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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