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United States
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Looking down the road a number of years which series do do you feel is the more collectible the State Quarters or the ATB Quarters? I am in the process of putting together a collection of just circulated coins of each series (using just Philadelphia and Denver coins) and was wondering which would be the more collectible. I have a proof series of each ( ATB in process) already. I don't see much upside potential for a proof set (in my lifetime) and was really wondering about how a circulated series would be received. My vision is to just put together coins an album using the best coins that I can find. I realize that the State Quarters are done and have been in circulation for 4 years now and most likely the older coins will be either high AU or real low MS quality, while the ATB coins will range most likely from in the low ms quality or higher with some being potentially proof like. So what would be you take on this question? |
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United States
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I like both series myself p&d.
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United States
410 Posts |
I like them both but I think the ATB Quarters will be more collectable then the State Quarters. It comes down to mintage for me. The 50 State Quarters were minted in huge volumes (213 million to 742 million). The ATB Quarters mintage ranged from 22 million to 167 million. They have averaged in the high 20 million range until the middle of 2012 when the Mint stopped making dollar coins and ramped up production of the quarters. The ATB Quarters aren't rare but the mintage numbers are only 1/10th the mintage of the State Quarters. |
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United States
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The way I see it is, it is costing me 25 cents to remove each coin from circulation. Collect them all and wait and see. To answer your question hands down, the ATB's |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1770 Posts |
i love the artwork of the ATB's the quality looks better as well to me, mount hood is my favorite design and on the proof and the 5 oz it looks as the water is really moving |
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United States
3755 Posts |
There is plenty of upside to collecting the proofs/mint set coins. They are low mintage higher quality coins. As much as many older collectors want them to be worth face, it just aint so.
That aside, if you are collecting circulated, then yeah, the ATBs are the way to go IMO.
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United States
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I went with all 3 types. Circulated (still looking for several D's) S Proof sets from all the years that the State Quarter were issued and the BEAUTIFUL ATB sets. ATB sets seems to be a hot item online right now. Paid more for those 2 years than most of the S proof quarters in a combined number of years. I am not coming across too many ATB Quarters in circulation, but it's still fun looking. |
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United States
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I said this in another thread yesterday: Quote:The low mintages (all under 100 million per Mint until Denali) and the Fed not letting banks special order ATB Quarters as "commemoratives" keep this series more collectible than the State Quarters. Quote:completed albums and folders of ATB Quarters finished in 2021 might have some premium over face, simply because people in many parts of the country would not have been able to complete an ATB Set (even a date Set) from circulation. One of my local coin shops buys common BU State Quarter rolls for face, and they use them for change in their cash register!   |
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At a coin show this past weekend I asked several dealers if they were buying State Quarter rolls (uncirculated). Every one of them said they had turned in substantial numbers of them into the bank for face value. THere is apparently no market for State Quarters right now. No one at the show was selling State Quarters. I know the mintages are very high for these but I wonder if enough State Quarters are turned in and spent if they will be worth something in the future. It might take 20 years but they could. Even though the ATB Quarters have far lower mintages (so far), I think far fewer of the ATB Quarters are reaching circulation. So they will probably never be hard to find in mint state, but circulated examples will be difficult. It's kind of like the 1950-D nickel. |
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I actually bought a number of rolls of State Quarters from a dealer for face. He was going to turn them to a bank. Down in my area it is very hard to get find Denver ATB coins right now. That is why I was going to do a circulated. I had originally done a circulated set of the State Quarters but had upgraded all the coins to silver proof and uncirculated proof. Now I am really thinking of going back and do them again as a circulated set. Talk about karma. I have also been lucky enough to find some State Quarters still in their original mint wrappings. So I've kept them. Now I think all they are doing is taking up space in my safe. Plus I have a couple rolls of uncirculated sitting on my desk. The lcs that I deal with doesn't want to talk about them at all. So outside of vanity, the only reason that I can think of doing a circulated State Quarter circulated set is just plain foolishness. So now I have to get an album that would hold the circullated ATB's that I get. No pun intended but the album will probably be worth more than the coins themselves. |
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My vision is to just put together coins an album using the best coins that I can find. From 1999 to 2008, I did three folders of BU State Quarter Date Sets from coins I received in change (all "D", because I live in Denver). I'm working on three ATB Date Set folders, also from coins received in change. Edited by DNA
01/29/2013 12:56 am
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Valued Member
United States
142 Posts |
Im planning on ATBs. I'm collecting them now. I bought an ms68 hawaii vol P for 70$ a few months ago. I dont think State Quarters would be worth that in that conditioN and theyre older. But I could be wrong. |
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United States
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1999-2001 business strike State Quarters are notoriously hard to find in PCGS/NGC high grades. |
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Valued Member
United States
379 Posts |
I think ATB for sure based on mintage numbers and the fact they don't seem to have the collecting fever that the states did outside of the collecting community. Personally, I like the ATB FAR more than State Quarters. |
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I don't think that any of the quarter series have disappeared from circulation as fast as the ATBs. I have a 25 cent storage tube I started using for AU to BU quarters when the series started and there are only 6 quarters in the tube. Everyone seems to love the ATBs. I still get 3 of everything from the mint for my BU and Proof collections for the sons and grandsons.  Oh, where's that coins store DNA? I still need some BU state rolls.  |
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mindsetsQuote:
I bought an ms68 hawaii PCGS 510073 Hawaii Volcanoes ms-68 is currently priced at $ 1500.00 
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