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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2183116, member: 68&quot;]I very much look forward to your post.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think the mint might be closer than you think.&nbsp; Right now I&#039;d estimate the half life of quarters minted in 1965 as about 48 years but this half life is getting longer. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What you may not realize is that these coins aren&#039;t wearing out and getting removed but rather they are individuially meeting with misadventure.&nbsp; Everytime a car is scrapped there are a few quarters lost in the cushions and mats.&nbsp; They get bent up being used for screwdrivers or other such fates befall them.&nbsp; But while these coins are waiting for their demise they are getting thinner and thinner every year.&nbsp; Before long the government will have to start removing these thin coins or they won&#039;t work in vending machines.&nbsp; If all the thin &#039;65 quarters were removed today the apparent half life would be far shorter. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You might say that these will seem to be around forever and then suddenly they&#039;re gone.&nbsp; Time don&#039;t fly, it bounds and leaps.&nbsp; Ya&#039; don&#039;t know whatcha got till it&#039;s gone (don&#039;t it always seem to go?). </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I believe at current rates of wear (that are very slow) &#039;65 quarters will start getting elusive around 2055 but one third of these surviving today are culls and collectors are starting to skew the grade distribution by picking off the nicer examples (nice F and better).&nbsp; There&#039;s another wild card here which is the preponderance of states issues in circulation now.&nbsp; Right now they account for only some 57% of quarters but as people begin to notice the scarcity of the older quarters and especially the scarcity of nicer coins and better dates the coins will be plucked out and the mint will replace them with new issues making the older coins seem even even scarcer and more desirable.&nbsp; The percentage of culls will continue to increase because there&#039;s no mechanism for removing bad coins.&nbsp; In as little as ten years a &#039;65 quarter will appear only once in three rolls and will be only VG- condition with 40% culls. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Things change more rapidly when people are paying attention.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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