US Mint - This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. In recognition of this significant anniversary, the West Point Mint will strike America the Beautiful Quarters featuring a special privy mark signifying allied victory. Beginning in April, two million privy mark quarters featuring American Samoa and Weir Farm will go into circulation.
What are the actual odds of finding one of these in change? Should I even be looking? I am seeing them on ebay now but is that simply because dealers have access to rolls of them? What about the general public?
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I actually did a study awhile ago and I think () I found the odds were around 1-in-4000 or so. The rate is probably even higher (1/5000) at this time, as some lucky people have acquired hundreds. I'm not sure how this has happened. My only thought is that the Mint really didn't do a good job in mixing their batches of quarters.
My daughter got one for me in change last year, and I've found one myself from CRH full cases of quarters, so YES, they are out there; just not as easy as some of us wish.
PS: I'm just guessing now on the odds I came up with. I've discarded the data I had when I did my study, and I'm NOT doing the math again.
Wellp, I guess SOMEONE is finding them out in the wild... being new at this, I don't understand how dealers are getting uncirculated ones and offering multiples already graded...
Maybe part of what makes them easier or harder to find could be that they are not equally distributed across the country. Could this be so? It's hard to image the US government caring to spread them out according to a plan and then executing the plan well.
Are folks finding them mostly in larger, urban/suburban places, especially nearer mints? Anyone finding them in rural Kansas or Alaska?
I have one of these...somewhere. As I was just getting into collecting several months ago, I found it in my change. Thought the v75 was something fake...then thought it looked cool. I put it up somewhere and now cant find it... :(
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) I found the odds were around 1-in-4000 or so. The rate is probably even higher (1/5000) at this time, as some lucky people have acquired hundreds. I'm not sure how this has happened. My only thought is that the Mint really didn't do a good job in mixing their batches of quarters.
