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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 264589, member: 68&quot;]I think people are going to be very surprised just how few of most dates of the clads will exist in unc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There weren&#039;t any rolls and bags saved or you&#039;d see them once in a while.&nbsp; This leaves only the mint sets and attrition on these has been extremely high.&nbsp; Usually these sets are destroyed for a single coin or because they are worth more as spare change than as a set.&nbsp; This results in most of the coins from the sets going into circulation.&nbsp; This is not an insignificant matter because in many cases almost every single coin in the sets will be poor quality.&nbsp; Some are poor because of terrible strikes like the 1977 and some are just marked up and ugly like the &#039;69.&nbsp; When large percentages of the sets are gone and rolls don&#039;t exist it makes nice survivors of importance even if they&#039;re only in XF+ or even in Fine.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To really gain an understanding of the quantities we&#039;re dealing with consider the &#039;83-P quarter.&nbsp; Everyone knew well in advance that there would be no mint sets and it would be a good time to set aside rolls.&nbsp; Many more rolls of these were saved than other dates from the era yet these rolls wholesale around $1000.&nbsp; Here it is one of the most common clad quarter rolls and it sell for a thousand dollars!!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So look at the &#039;81-P.&nbsp; 95% of the mint set coins have unattractive surfaces.&nbsp; Only about 1% of these coins are a nice attractive near-gem or better.&nbsp; Only 4% are attractive.&nbsp; This set also contains a few (~.7%) &#039;81-P 25c with the type &quot;d&quot; reverse.&nbsp; Figure out how many of these survive in the half of mint set production which survives.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the same across the board.&nbsp; These prices aren&#039;t low because the coins are common.&nbsp; They are low because the demand is still low.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t likely to continue forever.&nbsp; Every day there are more collectors and every day there are fewer of these in circulation.&nbsp; By this time next year there will be more states quarters in circulation than eagle reverse coins.&nbsp; As the public pays more attention to these there are sure to be some price increases among the scarcer issues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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