State Quarter Value Going Up?

Funny how a year or so can change your perspective.

Last July, coininsean was all excited about that
'low mintage' Oklahoma-D State Quarter. (194,600,000)

It's now Oct. 2009, and each of the eight design/mintmark varieties
of the 2009 Territorial Quarters (so far) have have had less than
half of the Oklahoma-D variety's mintage.

The American Samoa-D variety is just over one-fifth (!)
of the mintage of the Oklahoma-D variety.

And, it's much much harder to acquire the Territorial Quarters
at face value than it was for State Quarters, either from BU bank
rolls or from circulation. I pay cash for all of my brick & mortar
purchases, even so it took me from January until September to
accumulate 'a roll of' (40) Territorial Quarters from circulation!

That said, the big prices for Georgia BU rolls (despite almost a
billion of those business strikes minted!) prove that it's
not a manner of 'mintage', but how many are left in BU condition
and what the market demand is for them....


Considering that you're in Canada, and live a considerable
driving distance from the U.S. border(s), I find that fairly
impressive!

You're lucky (and in one of the right 'locations').

Many of our CCF members can attest to the difficulties in obtaining
any 2009 coins from banks. This is mostly due to the enormous
'backwash' of coins that are returning to the Federal Reserves, due
to the slow economy (and CoinStar! ).

There do appear to be some areas in the U.S. where the banks haven't
been absolutely inundated with older coins, and thus the local
banks still order new coins.

Undoubtedly, many of those who can get rolls of 2009 coins
from their banks are saving them, or putting them on ebay!

What I find as funny is how many people are saying State Quarters will not be worth anything.
of course I would agree no one would pay anything extra for a worn common State Quarter.

Seems like I read a lot of post on here where people roll search Jefferson nickels and save most that are older than 50's or 60's. But how many worn old nickles are out there.

Another observation is that every coin shop or coin show I have been to the past several years have some amount of State Quarters. And I just did a search on ebay ...11,613 lots of State Quarters...
leads me to think a lot of people are paying more than face value for quarters right now .. and I don't see that going away for a long time ... with the mint plans on making new quarters for years to come.

I'm going to have to say that the values will not rise. I had some PF 69 DCAMs from PCGS and I couldn't even sell the things at my local coin store. Now I didn't have complete year sets, but the guy running the coin store had just no interest in them because... no one was coming into his store and asking for them!

No - when you look at all the factors that makes a coin valuable, I don't foresee anything that will cause these to go up in value. So, you might ask why do I have two sets in albums? I really like the State Quarters. It's kind of refreshing to see all the different designs on a coin. It's added enjoyment to collecting looking at the different designs.