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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.

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.

i occasionally get a few boxes of quarters and for the most part I've been pretty lucky with them