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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 209992, member: 68&quot;]A lot of people don&#039;t realize that the &#039;82 and &#039;83 Washintons were saved in much</p><p>larger numbers than other clads from that era.&nbsp; Everyone knew that there would</p><p>be no mint sets so set aside rolls.&nbsp; Incredibly this amounted to something in the </p><p>neighborhood of about 1,200 rolls.&nbsp; There was also at least one bag saved and there </p><p>were around 30,000 mint sets in aggregate of each date from various sources.&nbsp; This </p><p>means around 80,000 for the &#039;83-P which might be the absolute lowest for these dates.&nbsp; </p><p>People weren&#039;t saving the clad so there were even fewer of the&nbsp; &#039;81 coins saved.&nbsp; The</p><p>other dates are available in mint sets so there is no demand for the other rolls which</p><p>is just as well since there is almost no supply.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a shame that there&#039;s no supply or demand though since there are some great</p><p>varieties from this era which don&#039;t appear in the mint sets.&nbsp; The most interesting (other</p><p>than the OMM &#039;80-D dime) are the small motto quarters.&nbsp; These start at 1977 as very </p><p>scarce issues and get progressively more common until 1984.&nbsp; Remarkably they are</p><p>all scarce in unc except for the &#039;81-P which shows up in about every 160th 1981 mint </p><p>set.&nbsp; The &#039;77 and &#039;78-D probably don&#039;t exist in unc at all.&nbsp; These coins were saved by </p><p>only a very few sources and spot checks show no small mottos from them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Even the &#039;84-P sm motto which was distressingly common (~25% of mintage) is exceed-</p><p>ingly difficult to find in unc, AU or even nice XF because people didn&#039;t save them and still </p><p>aren&#039;t.&nbsp; There may be as few as four or five thousand nice XF+ in existence.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Even those coins that do appear in mint sets can be surprisingly tough in nice choice con-</p><p>dition because some of the mint set dates were very poorly made.&nbsp; Some coins (like the &#039;82-P</p><p>quarter) were very poorly made and very few were saved meaning choice examples are </p><p>not only scarce but can be rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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