Thanks to CDN and John Feigenbaum!
cladking
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...For the opportunity to sound off in the Oct, '22 Greysheet concerning 1982 and '83 coinage. It was difficult to limit what I said to key points since I tend to go off on many tangents. 
It was fun to write and it's great to see catalogers taking an active interest in some really great US coins that are so often overlooked. I'm confident GreySheet will be around for many more years serving the greatest hobby in the world.
The hardest part about writing this was that it was difficult not to get into all the other desirable clads and moderns.
Tempus fugit.
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Really great publication that has improved immensely in recent years.
I read the article and it was quite good! Congratulations!
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Thank you @cladking ! It was a pleasure to work with you, and equally a pleasure to learn about these modern rarities, hidden in plain sight.
We invite anyone who has done good research to write an article as well.
John
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Thank you!
Whitman Brands: President/CEO (www.greysheet.com; www.whitman.com)
PNG: Executive Director (www.pngdealers.org)
@cladking... Very good article, thanks for the link. Cheers, RickO
Great article. A few months ago I picked up some nice “privately made” 82 and 83 mint sets because of cladking posting about how scarce these coins are in nice condition.
Thanks for writing it! I have a special place for clad quarters!
Really cool. You are the best. I have enjoyed owning multiple rolls of bank rolls of unc clad quarters particularly the 1982 and 1983 years. I once saw two mint bags of 1982 uncirculated quarters but they got ruined in the New Orleans flood zone.
All of the privately packaged sets are extremely good quality compared to the average BU roll. I've seem a few nice rolls but nice ones tend to be the exception.
I've always enjoyed finding rolls of moderns except that I have to look at every coin individually because there are (were) so many undiscovered varieties. It's very time consuming. I can grade quickly enough but variety searching, for me, is slow and almost like work.
Wow! 8000 coins ruined at once. People underestimate the toll taken on coins by fire and flood. Of course there are many other avenues of misadventure for coins but populations are forever being whittled away. The problem is far more severe for moderns because they frequently can end up in circulation and they are far more likely to be exposed to things like fire and flood. While old coins sit in vaults and safety deposit boxes moderns are much less likely to be.
I estimate only "80,000" '82-P quarters were set aside and only "60,000" survive the fact of the matter is of course there might be lots of bags of these sitting almost anywhere. I doubt it for a couple reasons; $1000 was still a lot of money to tie up in coins in 1982 and they were so hard to get. Also if there were substantial numbers out there someone would be selling and most retailers could keep the coins in stock. With the very low demand it should be easy to keep them in stock but nobody does.