GMan00001
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- Dec 19, 2006
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- All Treasure Hunting
I picked up one box of quarters the other day with the intention of both finding silver (didn't get lucky there...skunked) and taking a quick survey of how fast the coins disappear from circulation....being as its easy to recognize the state quarters from the older washington clad quarters I counted how many older clad washington quarters were in each roll.
Ended up with 645 clad washington quarters out of a box of 2000 quarters....all but 3 of the rest were state quarters....the other 3 were Canadian.
So on average the number of older clad washington quarters in each roll was 12.9 (or 32.25%).
This is after only being out of circulation for 10 years....if the same rate of disappearance occurs over the next 10 years they will be down to 10.4% (32.25% * 32.25%).
so for those of you searching for silver quarters.....you are really searching only 32.25% of the coins for silver (unless you count the silver proofs..)
Also, just out of curiousity I sorted the states to see how complete of a state quarter set I would find from one box now that all have been released.
Ended up finding all the Denver minted state quarters and all but 6 of the Philadelphia minted ones.....the ones missing in this box were 2003-MO, 2004-IA, 2005-KS, 2008-AZ, 2008-AL, and 2008-HI. Not bad for 1 box.
If anyone else feels like buying a box of quarters (or $500 in loose quarters if at a casino) and doing a similar survey and posting the results, I'd be interested to see how different parts of the country are. My results are from the Twin Cities area in MN.
Granted my survey is only 1 box so it may be skewed, but it seems in line with what I see in general.
Ended up with 645 clad washington quarters out of a box of 2000 quarters....all but 3 of the rest were state quarters....the other 3 were Canadian.
So on average the number of older clad washington quarters in each roll was 12.9 (or 32.25%).
This is after only being out of circulation for 10 years....if the same rate of disappearance occurs over the next 10 years they will be down to 10.4% (32.25% * 32.25%).
so for those of you searching for silver quarters.....you are really searching only 32.25% of the coins for silver (unless you count the silver proofs..)
Also, just out of curiousity I sorted the states to see how complete of a state quarter set I would find from one box now that all have been released.
Ended up finding all the Denver minted state quarters and all but 6 of the Philadelphia minted ones.....the ones missing in this box were 2003-MO, 2004-IA, 2005-KS, 2008-AZ, 2008-AL, and 2008-HI. Not bad for 1 box.
If anyone else feels like buying a box of quarters (or $500 in loose quarters if at a casino) and doing a similar survey and posting the results, I'd be interested to see how different parts of the country are. My results are from the Twin Cities area in MN.
Granted my survey is only 1 box so it may be skewed, but it seems in line with what I see in general.
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My first 43-D since 8/19/04 and my fifth ever. I went 126 war nicks since finding my last one. Plus it was one of the five I didn't find last year. At least I got the toughie out of the way early!
