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Valued Member
United States
295 Posts |
I have been reading about how low the mintage is/was for the Puerto Rico 25 coin. I was thinking about it yesterday and decided to drop by BofA and see if the had some of them. To my surprise, the lady asked me how many rolls I wanted and or how many boxes I would like. She said she too has seen the low mintage #'s and wants to get them out into the public ASAP. I then asked her about the LP1 coins and she said that she is highly disappointed to see people "hoarding" these 1 coins. She said she will not sell any rolls of them and only gives them out in change.
All in all she seems like a really good contact to have for rolls of just about anything new, besides the LP's. I was thinking about going back after Memorial Day and getting a case of 50 coins and more qtrs.
What say y'all about the Puerto Rico 25 coins and low mintage #'s? You think they might be a sleeper coin?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The Puerto Rico "P" (53,200,000) is a significantly lower mintage than the "D" version (86,000,000). Both figures are fractions of the number of even the lowest mintage State Quarter(Oklahoma-D = 194,600,000). Succeeding Territorial Quarters may be even lower in mintage numbers. The lower mintages are ironically not as much of a factor for future 'collectibility' as would be the lower numbers of them distributed in BU bank rolls nationally as compared to the State Quarters, and less interest in/awareness of the new series from the general public (thus less saving of BU coins). I've been spending Territorial Quarters that I get from the Denver Mint, and a number of the cashiers were not even aware that they existed until they got my coins! I got a large coffee at McDonald's, and paid for it with eight Puerto Rico-D Quarters. The cashier was amazed when she looked at the coins. She did not know that they existed, and better yet she was born in Puerto Rico! I sold her a roll of them later that day (to her personally, not for the McDonald's drawer  ...). Edited by DNA
05/16/2009 12:42 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3077 Posts |
ask her if she has o9 nickels or dimes
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
I have yet to see a Puerto Rico Quarter. I have asked at six banks and one credit union here in my town, and none of those institutions have any, or expect to have any.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Mine has them. The funny thing, they only have 2 rolls for the entire bank, so each value customer is allowed up to 4.
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Valued Member
 United States
295 Posts |
wd1040, that bank sticks...have you tried keeping just a few bucks with a couple different banks? That's what we do down here and it seems to work ok.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3098 Posts |
None of the other banks WF, BoA, Chase (which I see an ad at the bottom) have them. This is a local bank, and is always the bank that orders the new coins first.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2734 Posts |
Right now, nobody but HOLLYWOOD seems to have any 2009 Nickels or Dimes.  I went to a coin show last weekend with over 100 vendors from eight states present, and no one had any 2009 Nickels or Dimes!  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Still checking into the banks, and still no luck. I'll try again tomorrow.
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Valued Member
United States
372 Posts |
I just got one in change at the coke machine downstairs at the barracks I'm staying at. It is a Denver, but still I found one.
Mike
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
No luck on the Quarters, however my bank had lots of Tyler Dollars and Lincoln Cents, Type 2.
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Valued Member
United States
295 Posts |
I haven't received a Tyler $1 yet.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2520 Posts |
The Tylers are the only '09 I've been able to get from my one bank. I was able to get 2 rolls of log cabins from the other. 09's are hard to come by around here.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have found 3 DC quarters and nothing else from '09! Where are the dimes & nickles & such?
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Valued Member
United States
326 Posts |
All I have seen are Harrison and DC quarters. No Tyler or Puerto Rico or Guam so far.
Zero pennies, nickels and dimes as well.
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Valued Member
United States
232 Posts |
I am in the DC area and the only 09 coins I have received in change are the DC quarters - and only 2 of those. I hope to see the new pennies soon, but I would not be surprised if it takes several more months.
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05/31/2009 11:11 pm
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Posted 05/16/2009 6:50 pm
