Keeping US Territories And ATB Quarters

I think a lot of kids collect those. However, many collectors I know did as I did and stopped collecting quarters after the State ones. It was fun at first but gets to be sort of like stamp collecting. Just to many different ones and to many of them produced. None of them seam to sell good at coin shows either. I suspect they will be a collectors item in the future but I just don't know anyone that collects them now. Since so many Folders have been made for them, this must mean there is some interst in them.

State Quarters created a "perfect storm". You could load up on BU rolls at banks for face value, and too many people did just that.

Then, masses of people tried to get rid of their State Quarters during the low point of the recession (2009-10), only to find the coins shops wouldn't buy them for more than face value.

Those people won't be saving ATB Quarters, assuming they could even find any in circulation. Some CCF members have yet to find an ATB Quarter in circulation, others have found only a few.

And banks cannot special-order the ATB Quarters, massively reducing the face-value hoarding that occurred with State Quarters.

Some people complain about the "high" mintages of newer varieties like the Denali-D, while forgetting that even the highest-mintage ATB Quarters are still lower than the lowest-mintage State Quarter variety (the Oklahoma-D), AND people can't hoard BU Rolls of ATB's at the bank.

All this creates the exact opposite of the State Quarter situation (low mintages, no face-value hoarding and very hard to find in circulation), boding well for future collectors.

As for the proliferation of ATB Quarter folders, I suspect the folder companies wildly over-estimated the collector base, because the masses who were saving State Quarters are not really saving ATB Quarters, for the reasons outlined above.

I collect both the State Quarters and the ATB, in silver proof PF69. As soon as I fill out the State Quarter collection (NGC PF69 UCAM)I'll get to work on the ATBs.

I like shiny new uncirculated coins so modern silver proofs are all I can afford in that class. As long as it's a US silver proof, I am collecting or intend to collect it.

Rick

I second what nalaberong said.

I've found three - two in change (the exact same, too: White Mountain-D) and one was dug out of a playground at a national park (Glacier-P, I also found a British pound - and Glacier is the closest American national park to the Canadian national park I dug it in!).

I have a roll of AU-BU ATB Quarters and have just started another. I keep ATB Quarters because I like them. If I get bored with them, I'll do with them as I did with my State Quarters: spend them. I too have more Denali's than any of the others, which isn't surprising: The mintage of the Denali is about for times greater than any of the ATB Quarters that preceded it. If the mintage of the Denali (about 300 million, according to the 2013 Red Book) is indicative of the likely mintage numbers of coins in the series yet to come, then I think that bodes well for the collectibility of all those that preceded the Denali in 2010-2012, provided they're in good condition. Roughly speaking, and prior to the Denali, there have been only a tenth as many of the ATB Quarters minted as there were State Quarters.

I'll keep any coin as long it is looks like it just came from a new roll. The coins that have been beat up, I recirculate them.

In the SoCal area, the Territories and ATB Quarters are hard to come by. I still get a lot of Eagle-backs and State Quarters.

I save all ATBs, although the Denalis are piling up. Seem to be getting a lot of Great Basin and Perry's too.