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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 505047, member: 13650"]Right after the underlined part:</p><p> </p><p>"This leads me to believe that despite the high mintage for 1964, circulating coinage has been diluted and picked over for so many years that trying to search batches of quarters (or most anything anymore), would be insane. <b>They were probably picked over in the early 80s more than they are now."</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b> </b>As for what Clembo said, I didn't even realize everybody started pulling everything starting in 1965, but I'm not surprised.</p><p><br /></p><p> The mintages can't be used as a realistic, scientific study now. I only used them as a starting point or base line. I just wanted to make the point that the best possible scenario of finding a silver quarter would only be around 4.7% if everything was still in circulation. We know it's far worse than that though. More like Hobo explained.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 505047, member: 13650"]Right after the underlined part: "This leads me to believe that despite the high mintage for 1964, circulating coinage has been diluted and picked over for so many years that trying to search batches of quarters (or most anything anymore), would be insane. [B]They were probably picked over in the early 80s more than they are now." [/B]As for what Clembo said, I didn't even realize everybody started pulling everything starting in 1965, but I'm not surprised. The mintages can't be used as a realistic, scientific study now. I only used them as a starting point or base line. I just wanted to make the point that the best possible scenario of finding a silver quarter would only be around 4.7% if everything was still in circulation. We know it's far worse than that though. More like Hobo explained.[/QUOTE]
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