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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 226525, member: 68&quot;]It&#039;s a safe bet that nice gems are scarce even now and that most of them are in circulation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Most collectors would be surprised to know how tough some coins made in the hundreds of millions or billions are.&nbsp; Consider that everyone knew that the &#039;82 and &#039;83 coins wouldn&#039;t appear in mint sets and had plenty of time to make other arrangements.&nbsp; The number of coins set aside in these years SOARED compared to other years.&nbsp; So how many varieties of 1981 coins do you think were set aside.&nbsp; Considering that &#039;80-D half dollars are rare as gems in mint sets how many can possibly appear in rolls?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are cases where in all probability not a single coin survived in mint state despite high mintages. Try finding a 1981-D quarter with a type &quot;d&quot; reverse.&nbsp; It seems every day there are more coins coming to light that everyone forgot to save.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In most countries people just stopped saving any new coins after WW II when the silver was removed from coinage.&nbsp; In this country it happened in 1965 and is still going on probably.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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