Same story as the first design for everyone. No banks want them. No banks (as a general rule) intend to order ANY of the new designs (which they would be lucky to get even if they could order
just all '09's.....
a mixture is what they're more likely to receive....although some banks who "did" order them for their customers, have got whole boxes of '09's of course as per the norm).
Most banks and Fed Resv's. have too large of a stockpile of coins already.....they are just "full", "overwhelmed", and they're just
not interested in "ordering" any of the "new coins". Whether that be the
Native American dollar, the Territory Qtrs. or anything else. (My bank will continue to get the
Presidential dollar for their customers, but have "halved" their previous orders of those too)
The only difference between the LP1 and the LP2 really is that they massively "upped" production of the "two roll Sets" for the LP2 ! ...... (they're just "rolling more" for these which would have ended up in the Stringer rolls of course)
....And I have no reason to believe that this won't continue for LP3 and LP4......if the demand is there.....they're
going to produce enough for the demand it seems, despite the announcements of "cutting production" of dimes, nickels, etc.
But I don't know if they
actually minted more of the LP2, or if they just simply put more of these biz. strikes into these two roll Sets which
would have been sent off to be "Stringer wrapped" since the demand for these was surprising and so large. Hence.....the banks don't want them.....but they saw that "collectors" do/did, so they "altered" some things. I dunno.
The banks who will get these "Stringer rolls", are still going to be
few to none as a general rule for most of us at this point in time.
But eventually, of course, they'll begin to "circulate".......so maybe the only
quality ones will be the "two roll Sets" ?......but of course many people have been seeing "low quality" '09's with "spotting" and really bad "bag marks", etc. etc. and
the two roll sets contain the same coins as the Stringer rolls ......so....hard to say. (I'm still not opening my two roll Sets to find out
)
If/once people start opening their Two Roll Sets to look for errors, nice examples, etc. etc......maybe then we'll know if "spotting" and "horrific amounts of bag marks" will be the same or not......it might very well be the exact same quality.
And once the "circulated ones" get to circulating.....it might be that
few will be found in nice condition.
Of course the
best ones will be in
SF from the Uncirculated Sets. And of course the
Proof and
Silver Proof Sets ! ......
....
THESE little Copper beauties will be just
SPECTACTULAR ! .....
Posted 05/26/2009 12:06 pm
