I See The ATB Quarter Series Ending Soon...

I understand your frustration.

You can pretty much bet that they'll come up with another gimmick to sucker collectors In for another 10 years. Those quarter programs bring in lot of money and help keep mint employees, contractors and suppliers with a job!

I had no problems with the statehood and territory quarters. I was led to believe early on the eagle reverse would return afterwards but it did not. Now it's just too gimmicky and I think it cheapens the hobby to an extent. Honestly I wish they'd have issued the eagle reverse quarters coinciding with these commemorative releases so at least we can have some continuity. Even Canada did this with the Caribou quarters. Now the annual sets are just too large, expensive, and cumbersome. I miss the days of just one lens in the proof sets.

The time has come and gone for Congress to authorize round two of ATB, so as far as I know we're going back to one design when the last ATB issue comes out in early 2021.

But we do have the Ammerican Innovation program if you find yourself getting bored.

Plus the Eagle was on its way to being a modern classic. I was thinking about the single lens as well, but will the small dollar, do you think it would be too crowded? A bigger lens perhaps? I suppose if they did it with the Ike year proof sets it could be done.

I too think they should go on and on and on and.......
I still think they should have also done famous alleys, high crime rate neighborhoods, famous amusement parks and head stones of famous gangsters in graveyards. Why the Mint could keep on doing these forever.

I am just so turned off with US coinage. It's boring as heck. The same dead person forever on there and blah blah blah. Time to modernize to reflect current times IMO. And get rid of the penny already! Geesh!

Nothing official yet, but the plan seems to be the single rev design (Washington crossing the Delaware) til 2026, then possibly a commemorative design on all the coins for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. After that they seem to have a plan for a five coin series on animals and a five coin series on youth sports. Whether each of the five coin series would be five coins in one year or one coin a year for five years I don't know, but I think they were leaning toward the latter. That would take us through 2037. (I wouldn't be surprised though if they did something special in 2032 for the 100th anniversary of the Washington quarter. And that would be a fitting divider between the Animal and sports series.)

And of course a 100th anniversary coin for the Jefferson nickel in 2038.

There was an article in Coin World several months ago mentioning something like this -- it seemed more like the Mint and Treasury Department being open to design changes and making suggestions, but nothing beyond that (which would require Congressional approval anyway). Has there been an update?