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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2011797, member: 68&quot;]Yes.&nbsp; The special issues are usually available in high grade.&nbsp; If you&#039;re talking ASE&#039;s, commems, and the like most will be readily available in MS-69.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But it is quite the opposite with coins made for circulation.&nbsp; Collectors in the old days weren&#039;t much concerned with the quality of their Unc Barber dimes because almost all of them looked pretty good.&nbsp; A few were made with worn or tired dies and some were poorly struck but generally they were all nice and the only consideration was whether they had wear or not.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is not at all true with coins made for circulation since 1964. The bulk of these coins looked like garbage when they left the dies and they looked even worse after being mishandled by the mint and FED.&nbsp; By the time you saw a &quot;BU Roll&quot; it was ugly.&nbsp; Many of the moderns made for circulation are scarce in nice attractive condition.&nbsp; Even a nice well-struck 1982-P quarter is quite scarce and it looks common only because the services don&#039;t factor in die condition and strike in the most grades.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ll find many moderns are highly elusive in true MS-65.&nbsp; Even coins that seem common like an &#039;84-P cent may exist in numbers under a dozen in true Gem with a solid strike and nice pleasing surfaces.&nbsp; Only one coin in about 1000 mint sets even approach being this quality.&nbsp; Finding rolls of this date is far more difficult than you imagine and the coins in them will be far lower quality than you think possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>This came to be because nobody collected moderns and nobody even looked at them.&nbsp; The mint wasn&#039;t trying to please any customers because they had no customers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never heard anyone say how easy high grades are who has actually tried to make a collection of any of the circulation issues.&nbsp; Sure, a nice Gem &#039;72-D quarter isn&#039;t tough but many dates are tough and some are scarce.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is exactly what makes these coins so interesting to those very few of us&nbsp; who actually collect them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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