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I think you mixed up Iowa and Illinois in the least found section Yep sure did, thanks just fixed! :) |
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The silver find frequencies on quarters are pretty much the same as on dimes. If that were true (and it's not) there would be a lot more quarter searchers than there are now. Your dime rate is correct in my experience - around 1.5 silver dimes per box, but I'm going to guess that the quarter rate isn't any higher than one silver quarter in four boxes. People find them in customer wrapped rolls every so often, but I haven't heard of anyone pulling them out of boxes on a regular basis. |
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I agree that searching quarters is not good for finding silver, but putting together circulated sets is always fun, and it doesn't cost you anything of course. If you get bored with it, you just spend it. It's a great way to introduce kids to the hobby.
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Quote: The silver find frequencies on quarters are pretty much the same as on dimes.
If that were true (and it's not) there would be a lot more quarter searchers than there are now. Your dime rate is correct in my experience - around 1.5 silver dimes per box, but I'm going to guess that the quarter rate isn't any higher than one silver quarter in four boxes. People find them in customer wrapped rolls every so often, but I haven't heard of anyone pulling them out of boxes on a regular basis. That's right, I should correct myself. If you go by his 1 in 1,316, they're the same. I don't search quarters, so I can't opine from experience. |
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Consider yourself very lucky if you can even find a 65-98 in AU condition.
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Consider yourself very lucky if you can even find a 65-98 in AU condition. Nice attractive AU's are getting quite elusive and when you do find one it's almost always a 1998 or a 1996. It's a wonder that people just keep ignoring these things. When the economy improves there will be a flood of the new quarters coming in and the proportion of old ones will just keep falling. It won't be too long till they have to start removing some of the old coins since they are getting too thin to work in machines and then the proportion of eagle reverse coins will drop like a rock and even XF's will be scarce. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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maybe this week I will grab a box of quarters
never have since they will make it hard for me to get out other coins
since I dont want over 1000 dollars sitting in my apartment lol
maybe I will try it this week since I am going away this weekend again anyways
not much time to search and quarters are fast
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United States
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well I got a box and got skunked
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oh well it was fun
probably wont do that too often
costs a lot but is really fast
I looked at each coin and it only took between 2-3 hours
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It won't be too long till they have to start removing some of the old coins since they are getting too thin to work in machines and then the proportion of eagle reverse coins will drop like a rock and even XF's will be scarce. I don't know about that - even though the quarter is probably the most heavily circulated coin, that cupronickel is really tough. I think you'll be able to find pre-99s for many more years. And they'll be so beat to heck (but still machine readable) that no one will want to pluck them out of circulation! But you're absolutely right about finding AU eagle backs in circulation - few and far between already! |
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I don't know about that - even though the quarter is probably the most heavily circulated coin, that cupronickel is really tough. I think you'll be able to find pre-99s for many more years. And they'll be so beat to heck (but still machine readable) that no one will want to pluck them out of circulation!
But you're absolutely right about finding AU eagle backs in circulation - few and far between already!
The eagle reverse coins aren't going anywhere soon. But with a flood of new quarters comiong in the percentage will drop. They could easily get down to 40% withing ten years. But people start grabbing stuff when it becomes "rare" so this would drop it to asw low as 35%. Toss in the FED removing the thinnest coins after screening them and we're suddenly down to 30% eagle reverse coins. Nearly half of these will be culls and many of the older coins will be quite elusive. The '69-D has only about 50 million specimens surviving but this would be hit hard if it had to pass over a screen. Only 25 million would survive and people would selectively remove this date for collections. this would get it down to 15 million ugly coins in circulation by the time there are 75 billion circulating quarters. this works out to only one coin in 5,000 and you'd have to go through 15,000 just to find a non-cull VG. The old eagle reverse coins have been going away for a very long time but the next ten years will be particularly hard on many of them. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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I search around $300 in quarters from the bank a week. I have been doing it on, and sometimes slightly off, for a little over a year. I can tell you this; I have never found a silver quarter in bank rolls yet. The ratio is nowhere near the dime ratio silver finds tht are reported above. Imo, there is less than .00001% of silver quarters in circulation still, maybe less. You got lucky finding that 1 silver quarter out of 1316 quarters.... Really really really lucky.
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I search around $300 in quarters from the bank a week. I have been doing it on, and sometimes slightly off, for a little over a year. I can tell you this; I have never found a silver quarter in bank rolls yet. The ratio is nowhere near the dime ratio silver finds tht are reported above. Imo, there is less than .00001% of silver quarters in circulation still, maybe less. You got lucky finding that 1 silver quarter out of 1316 quarters.... Really really really lucky. Your bank probably is supplied by an outfit that screens for silver. Silver quarters are far more elusive than silver dimes but they aren't that tough. Before the economic difficulties it was only about one quarter in 10000 but it was quadruple that last year. There would be some regional variation but not a lot unless you're in an isolated area. Quarters are my favorite but for me silver is just a little extra something and it's the clad that interests me. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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United States
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69's are very hard to find when I roll hunt, thats why I have a small collection of them going on....
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United States
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i occasionally get a few boxes of quarters and for the most part I've been pretty lucky with them
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United States
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I bought 2 boxes so 500. Pulled a Silver Proof for Michigan, only thing I kept. This was about a year ago, I didn't find it worth it to try for more.
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