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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 812516, member: 68&quot;]No! The coinage hasn&#039;t so much been picked over as the silver coins have been selrctively removed from circulation.&nbsp; &quot;Picked over&quot; suggests all the good coins have been removed from circulation but in point of fact there weren&#039;t any good quarters in circulation from the 1940&#039;s to the 1960&#039;s because they were all picked over.&nbsp; All the leavings from these coins were selectively removed from circulation by 1970.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a very good thing since everyone believes there&#039;s nothing worthwhile in circulation so very few are looking.&nbsp; This means each year rare, scarce, and unusual quarters are getting a little rarer, scarcer, anmd more unusual.&nbsp; They&#039;re also getting worn down&nbsp; so even the most common clads are becoming scarce in nice condition.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The junk silver that was circulating back in the 1940&#039;s will still be junk silver in a thousand years in present trends continue but each day that goes by makes all the clads scarcer.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was collecting quarters from circulation in 1957.&nbsp; I never found anything but picked over junk and the oldest piece of picked over junk you could find back then was a 1925.&nbsp; All the older quarters had their date worn off.&nbsp; That was a mere 32 years old.&nbsp; Today that 1965 quarter you find so often is 45 years old.&nbsp; Even the average quarter is older today than in those days.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly I&#039;m glad that everyone leaves these coins alone.&nbsp; Not so much because it lets me find the best ones as it makes the coins interesting and pulling out the good ones robs them of their stories.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A silver quarter if one could be plucked from change is worth a couple bucks but you won&#039;t find one worth any more than that.&nbsp; But a typical 1965 quarter is worth a small fortune in the stories it can tell and what it can teach.&nbsp; If it&#039;s one of the mules then it can have a substantial collector value as well.&nbsp; If you find a typical ho hum &#039;65 with very light wear then just ask yourself how many of these are left today.&nbsp; Never mind a thousand years, how many are still around today?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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