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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2121468, member: 26302"]To find the answer look at something as simply as wheat cents. Coins from the teens and twenties are the "good ones", being much scarcer. The 1930's are a little better, but become more available, and the 40's and 50's downright overly common. Now, imagine if wheat cents stopped at 1930. Wheat cents as a type would be 95% rarer than today, right? Well that is what happened to the SL quarters. Very short run and none of the run reached the 40's where coin production went through the roof. Therefor, they are in very high demand as a Type coin, and are scarce.</p><p> </p><p>Btw, almost no coins were saved in AU/BU condition before the late 30's. Coin collecting was not very large in this country, so 99% or more were never saved until coin collecting became really popular after WWII.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2121468, member: 26302"]To find the answer look at something as simply as wheat cents. Coins from the teens and twenties are the "good ones", being much scarcer. The 1930's are a little better, but become more available, and the 40's and 50's downright overly common. Now, imagine if wheat cents stopped at 1930. Wheat cents as a type would be 95% rarer than today, right? Well that is what happened to the SL quarters. Very short run and none of the run reached the 40's where coin production went through the roof. Therefor, they are in very high demand as a Type coin, and are scarce. Btw, almost no coins were saved in AU/BU condition before the late 30's. Coin collecting was not very large in this country, so 99% or more were never saved until coin collecting became really popular after WWII.[/QUOTE]
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