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 Posted 07/21/2008  6:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add malissadawn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I was actually curious how often those in the states are able to find high grade coins in their circulation. Does this happen often?
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 Posted 07/22/2008  06:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add arthrene to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Malissa,
I have never found a proof in circulation before.
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 Posted 07/22/2008  10:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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I was actually curious how often those in the states are able to find high grade coins in their circulation. Does this happen often?
I used to see a lot of nice coins as they came out each year. My modern albums were all built from circulation. I started those sets in 1980 and the coins from then to date are all in great shape. However, the last few years I am lucky to find one decent example for my sets.

There are still some nice older dates turning up now and then as the unknowing "cash in" their inherited coins or as the not-so-bright thieves spend what they stole.

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I have never found a proof in circulation before.
I have never personally, but my wife got a Delaware clad-proof quarter in change from the grocery store last year.
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It depends on what you mean by high grade. I look at more coins than most people do and usually average finding two or three gems per year. It's very hit and miss though and I'm not counting the gems I track down to the bank they come from.

Usually I'll save the best coins even if they aren't really gem so will save ten or fifteen coins each year since 1972. I also will set aside varieties especially if they're still nice. Some of the varieties are so common that they're only of interest in nice XF or better.

A lot of the early clad is no longer available above F condition.
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There's probably more US coins in Canada than you realize, especially in Toronto or any cities close to the border. I worked for a company that used a long haul trucking company out of Toronto. Maybe you have seen them Malissa; (AFJ Express). There are alot of trucks that run out of bigger Canadian cities to the US on a DAILY basis. I'd keep going to the same bank. Your bound to get more!
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Malissa,
I think I posted it under the JFK roll hunters before, but one of the first boxes of halves I went thru, 42 proof coins came out. They are in GREAT condition, so they must have been put in circulation days before. I could only guess how they got there. I love roll searching!
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