Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 284293, member: 68&quot;]Your statement isn&#039;t too far off the mark but collectors should realize that there is huge variability in average grade for mint set coins as well as circulation issues over the years.&nbsp; There is a tendency for changes to parallel one another but they don&#039;t always.&nbsp; The range of quality is nearly identical most years in all probability but circulation issues at the high end of the range were exceedingly scarce and were not saved usually.&nbsp; Often this range would be very attenuated by various production problems. 1969 quarters were weakly struck on poor planchets by bad dies and then banged up before leaving the mint.&nbsp; Finding these in unc today is very problematical because few people wanted to save such ugly coins.&nbsp; It&#039;s entirely possible that the mint didn&#039;t make any gems for circulation of the &#039;69-P quarter.&nbsp;&nbsp; In this case the mint set coins aren&#039;t a great deal better but there are some at the high end. By contrast mint set &#039;72-D quarters are often gem and even superb coins aren&#039;t especially scarce.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The SF coins thjat I&#039;ve seen are often merely MS-65 and MS-63 and 64 aren&#039;t scarce.&nbsp; There are a lot of very high grade coins in these sets though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in