How Low Can They Go?

i hope they keep going low low low. I want to see under 10,000,000 on the last territory

39,600,000 isn't even enough to make 1 million BU rolls!


At the rate the mintages are dropping, the general public won't even
know that the National Parks Quarters exist!

I've had several occasions now when I've spent Territorial Quarters
and the cashier did not know that they even existed, prior to
receiving mine. A McDonald's cashier (who was born in Puerto Rico)
looked at the Quarters I gave her and was thrilled to see that they
were Puerto Rico (Quarters which she didn't know existed). I returned
later and sold her a roll of Puerto Rico-D's (for her, not the drawer).

A young grocery store cashier looked closely at my Guam Quarter and
asked "Is this a misprint? Guam's not a State!" I explained that
since the Mint has now made Quarters for all 50 States, they are now
making Territory Quarters. He had never seen any of them.

I better not spend any National Park Quarters, or they'll call the
police and say that a guy's trying to pass counterfeit coins!
I'll have to get Secret Service agents to accompany me when I shop,
just to authenticate my coins....

Please stop with ALL the State, Territory Quarters, I would like to see the designs used on Paper money and bring back some exquisite engravings.....

Please no more Quarters, we will be seeing these Quarters for years and years to come, Enough.....

1968 Quarter = One type of reverse design
2009 Quarters = Six types of reverse designs

This is a hobby in which even a minor change to a coin's design can
make it a different type. Early 1909 Cents with the V.D.B. initials
are considered to be the "V.D.B." type, even though the reverse
design is otherwise identical to all Cents made through 1958.

The Wartime Nickel's only difference in design (compared to the
standard 1938-2003 Jefferson nickel) is their enlarged and relocated
mintmarks. Of course, their change in composition also makes them a
different type.

The 1913 Buffalo nickels and 1917 Standing Liberty quarters at least
have some design alterations between their types, not just the
removal or relocation of small letters (as on the previous examples,
and the mintmarks of the 1917 Walking Liberty Half-Dollars).

Since even minor alterations constitute a type, there's no argument
that six completely different reverses are six types.

The 1968 vs. 2009 mintage is thus an 'oranges vs. apples' debate.
However, the BU 1968 'oranges' were not saved in anywhere near
the quantities that the six varieties of BU 2009 'apples' will be.

This is why cladking and others prize high-grade
early Clad coins. Almost no one saved them in BU grades. You'd be
more likely to find a BU 1964 Quarter in a roll than a
BU 1965 Quarter, no joke! There are lots of '65's still
circulating in Denver, but they're all down to G-VG grade.

A 1968 Clad Quarter will remain much rarer in BU grade than any one
of the six types of 2009's in BU grade. It may even end up that 2009
Quarters will be rarer in circulated grades than in BU grades (much
like the 1950-D Nickel)!



Back in the Large Note days, the U.S. produced stunning notes like
the Educational Series $1 and the Indian Chief $5.
And how much has printing technology improved since then?

I don't think that mintages really matter on state, territory or ultimately state park quarters. So many are saved in mint state condition that even if less than 10,000,000 are made, there will be plenty in mint state to go around.

be careful out there