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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1614908, member: 68&quot;]I think it has to be eagle reverse clad quarters.&nbsp; I doubt even today there are 2000 serious collectors.&nbsp; There are another 10,000 now days trying to put together choice sets from various sources but few of these collectors are very far advanced yet.&nbsp; There are another 100,000 casual collectors who are active.&nbsp; These collectors actually watch for coins to add to their collections or for upgrades but usually are just checking change and the like rather than pouring through boxes.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It seems remarkable that so little interest exists in a series that can be collected by most people in any condition.&nbsp; This is especially so in light of the fact that not only are they actually circulating but they are the same denomination as coins that are quite popular; the various states programs to date.&nbsp; These date back nearly half a century now yet there isn&#039;t enough demand to even cause high prices on things like the &#039;72-D type b reverse quarter.&nbsp; In other words with a 40,000 mintage and no more than a few hundred located by collectors in poor condition from circulation there isn&#039;t even enough demand to affect the price of even nicer examples.&nbsp; Unique and rare clads rarely change hands due to the shallowness of demand.&nbsp; If there were 1% as much demand for these as there is for morgans many of the prices would explode.&nbsp; Something like an AU-58 1969 quarter could sell for $100 rather than 25c.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t to say anyone should invest in clad quarters and I sincerely hope they don&#039;t.&nbsp; You aren&#039;t going to find things like AU-58 &#039;69 quarters to buy because they are quite rare and so inexpensive owners won&#039;t even seek a buyer.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is one of the reasons they are rare; owners will tend to put them in circulation.&nbsp; There are so few collectors by the time it&#039;s found it will be XF.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Keep in mind that 99% of all the eagle reverse clad quarter collectors have started collecting since 1999 when the states coins were released.&nbsp; This is important because it highlights the fact that there aren&#039;t any &quot;old collections&quot; that will appear in the future.&nbsp; There are precious few BU rolls and this leaves the dwindling number of mint sets and increasingly lower grade and lower quality of the coins in circulation for collectors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sure there are more eagle reverse clad quarter collectors than there are capped bust half dollars but there are a far larger number of collectors who can&#039;t afford old rare coins.&nbsp; They can afford more modern rare coins with much more room for growth in demand. </p><p><br /></p><p>All coins are equally collectible and most can be collected on a wide variety of budgets but nowhere in US coinage can better quality be had for less money and scacity for less as well.&nbsp; I believe these factors make circulating clad (especially quarters) the most underrated of all US coins and there are not great numbers of modern world coins that are more underrated.&nbsp; The best thing about US is that a market exists even though it&#039;s small. Many of the underrated world coins don&#039;t have established markets and collectors are left to fend for themselves in bidding on coins and then have to hope for at least a couple bidders when they put it up for sale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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