Amassing The 2019-W And 2020-W Quarters

The first two issues of the 2019 coins were not distributed evenly. Those were salted into rolls by the armored car companies in certain areas of the country and their employees figured out what was going on real quick and snagged many of them in bulk for resale.

The mint figured out what was going on and the later issues of 2019, and all 5 of the 2020 issues, were mixed in to the Ballistic Bags at the mint instead of having the armored car companies do it. That made for a more even distribution.

By having access to un-searched/unopened 500$ boxes of new quarters, people (including me) were able to score several hundred of the "W" quarters during that 2-year period. Some boxes were duds and had zero W's while others had 30 to 40 "W's" in them. It was pure luck.

Occasionally, we would get sealed boxes with mostly circulated coins in them. Those would sometimes yield a couple of "W's", or a 90% coin, on a good day.

My source of raw coins dried up in 2021 when she switched jobs. Over the whole 2-year period we pulled about 500 W's. I got my source interested in coin collecting and was happy to split the W finds with her! It was a win/win situation.

I hope they do it again someday! It was fun and it reminded me of when I used to search bags of nickels with my uncle back in the early 1960's.

I have snagged many of these coins, actually have lost count. I only kept 2 of each type. one set of 10 to put into my Dansco albums with the other quarters of my collection, and the other 10 in caps and in a nice felt clam shell box.
The rest I gave away to friends and family.

Looking good!