Will Completed ATB Folders Ever Be Worth Much?

I doubt it, unless they are the primo (MS68+/PR70) grades in PCGS slabs.

Now the time and effort that you and your young put into is priceless. I have purchased bags/rolls of quarters for me and my daugters to go through to sort and release them back into the wild...good times!

Check the early years and you will find that the mintages are much lower than that with the low mintage probably being the 12-D Acadia with 21.6 million.

There might be some keys years down the road that would help out a full set, but there will always be millions of folders, coin boards, maps, albums, etc, full of wonderfully preserved examples. This is for fun and education (and OCD among collectors).

21 from Philly then 24 from Denver youre still talking 50 million. Even at 21 million if you just go by mint mark I wouldnt call that scare or low mintage.

There was an old thread (cant remember which one) where the ATB collector numbers were discussed and I would honestly bet that 21 million is 4 or 5 times at least for the amount of collectors for the series.

Plus with modern survivability of coins and rolls that get hoarded I just dont see someone being hard pressed to find a mint state example. Worse case scenario someone would just need to cut up a mint set for them.

I personally like and collect them but I dont expect any significant appreciation of their value.

I think it will depend on what sort of outlet you have, when you want to sell coins.

I bought, and still buy, a lot of State/Territory/ATB quarters. I do buy rolls from the mint, but also have bought a lot, at or near face .. from banks or when others decide to sell out.

I sell 4 or 5 sets a year (State) .. and at least double my money .. I am trying not to sell ATB's until the series is complete.

Circualated ATBs will only be worth face value that's true. I've been quietly putting together a couple of 8146s and they look great. Just need to add a seventh page for the 2012-? S circulation quarters.

Considering that a number of CCF members have yet to find an ATB Quarter in circulation (and a larger number have found less than ten ATB's total), and that banks cannot special-order these Quarters (greatly reducing the percentage of total mintage that would otherwise be hoarded, as happened with State Quarters), these factors combine to make completing an album of ATB Quarters sourced from circulation basically impossible in most parts of the country.

Even here in Denver, where I have found all D-Mint ATB Quarters from Hot Springs to Perry's Victory in my change, my circulation find ATB's are housed in Littleton date-only folders, so I don't have to bother with P's (of which I've found seven total in change since Jan. 2010).

No, you won't be able to retire on completed business strike ATB Quarter folders, but they may have a slight premium, for the reasons above.

PS: The Glacier-P I found today is worn down to VF, and not very many ATB's have that much "mileage" on them...

I think they stand a lot better chance of gaining value than the State Quarters. I see quite a few more 1999, 2000 and 2001 State Quarters than I do ATBs. I'd bet that by 2030, there will still be State Quarters in circulation, but almost no ATBs.