2012 ATB S-Mint Business Strike Mintage

On of last years sold 1.7m - numbers aren't going crazy like I thought they might.

They will leave each "S-mint" coin available for sale for 1 year (for the day of its release)..... they want to maximize their revenue....

Until we have/see the final mintage of 2013-S coins, the 2012-S coins will not increase in value significantly.

I wonder if any manufacturer would consider making albums or folders with slots for the S business coins. The mint may suddenly stop making them.

It doesn't hurt to put a few of each aside. Some member are putting some into circulation, which will generate interest.

When there are more interest and more people know about the S-mint circulated quarter, then both OSMS's question regarding album AND Doug58s' concern about the Mint suddenly stop will be address: Enough demand/interest will prompt the album maker to create spot for it & for the mint to continue issue these.

So, if we like the S-mint coins and want to push the issue, the best thing is to get more and more people to collect these, spread the words.....

I'm still on the fence on this one, leaning to one side. As an investment, I have my doubts. If you added up all the people serious enough about collecting the entire series, that number is a fraction of the total quantity minted. Not sure what that number is, but I'd feel safe to say that it's well under 50%. So there is plenty of supply for quite a while (intentionally ambiguous). The current situation, in my opinion, is that there is a smaller group of people sitting on larger quantities for speculation. And I do hope it's speculation, not a new trend in collecting. Moving from collecting individual coins to rolls and bags would be a burden. I shouldn't need a hand truck when I want to take out my collection to show someone. Still, I think I may pick up a few rolls just to be safe!

About the albums, I doubt that we'll see any changes. Preprinting the entire series was already way outside the comfort zone for the manufacturers. Remember the old folders? They'd only print up to the previous year and you had to hand write the rest. Glad they didn't do that. I can keep my handwriting neat for a four digit number and a letter, but that's about it.

I am revisiting this thread since there's a an article that did mentioned the final number of coin sold for 2012-S ATB business strike: http://mintnewsblog.com/2013/09/exa...ul-quarters/


Also: http://news.coinupdate.com/us-mint-...debuts-1829/
El Yunque - Rolls 16,961 - Bags 10,017 - Total Mintage 1,680,140
Chaco - Rolls 16,528 - Bags 7,279 - Total Mintage 1,389,020
Acadia - Rolls 17,093 - Bags 7,254 - Total Mintage 1,409,120
Volcanoes - Rolls 17,478 - Bags 7,100 - Total Mintage 1,409,120
Denali - Rolls 17,668 - Bags 7,025 - Total Mintage 1,409,220

Mint Set coins are produced as Uncirculated coins (struck on dedicated lower-speed presses at higher striking forces in their own sections of the Denver and Philadelphia Mints).
The San Francisco circulation-finish Quarters are not (officially speaking) Uncirculated coins.

Circulation-finish NIFC JFK Half-Dollars (as opposed to the Uncirculated coins in Mint Sets) are sold only in bags and rolls, just like the NIFC BU "S" Quarters.

I would add that the quality of the 2012-S Hawaii Volcanos Quarters from the roll I opened seemed at least on par with the Uncirculated Quarters in my 2012 Mint Sets, so their production method may in fact be "Uncirculated-grade", but the Mint does not claim these coins to be "Uncirculated". Does San Francisco Mint even have high-volume presses on the premises anymore?

The first six varieties of 2012 business strike P and D Quarters are each under 26 million. Acadia-D @ 21,606,000, Chaco Culture @ 22 million each, P and D. Yours truly was "backing up the truck".

A year later, for 2013 only the White Mountain-P variety is under 100 million (and compare its 68,800,000 to the first six 2012 varieties).

For both 2011 and 2012, the last design of the year had more than double the mintages of the preceding design, at both Mints.

If that rule held true this year, we'd have over 300 million Mount Rushmores from each Mint

I don't think that will happen, but it is possible that the mintage of the Mount Rushmore-D variety may finally surpass the lowest-mintage State Quarter variety (which was Oklahoma-D @ 194,600,000).

I'm saving far less of the 2013 BU rolls than the 2012's, but the fact that banks can't special-order BU rolls means I'll continue to save some ATB BU rolls, no matter how high the mintages are.

And, if business strike mintage levels stay above 100 million per variety, BU "S" Quarters will be the only "low-mintage" varieties, as the Mint News Blog article pointed out.

2013-S Mintages are likely to be 1.7 million+, since over 1.5 million 2013-S White Mountain coins have already been sold, and all product options for the 2013-S W.M. are still available as I type this.