El Yunque Quarter Lowest Mintage So Far

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How many collectors are there?

 

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According to the mint, half the population (150M) collected the state quarters, which may be a good ballpark projection for the ATB's once they begin to circulate.

 

Don't count on it. The popularity of these is not much above the presidential dollars. The salesmen on TV will tell you otherwise.

 

Ha, ironically enough it took me longest to pull a Chickasaw out. I've found several since then, but it was mid-Feb before I found one.

Personally, I love this series. I love the return to the flat-haired bust and the reverse designs are MUCH better than on the state quarters. I never really got into the state ones because they were so dang ugly, but these are stunning IMO. The Mount Hood is by far my favorite so far.

 

I hope to get my hands on an El Yunque, because I was there 3 weeks ago, and it was amazing! I also visited the fort featured on the Puerto Rico Territorial quarter and it was awesome.

... What the mint is doing really is overkill though.

 

Yep, because at this point the ATB's are circulating about like the president dollars - that won't last forever.

 

Well I guess I have a new title.
Wonder what a "Not a true collector" collects.....
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/alltimeset.aspx?s=33325
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/alltimeset.aspx?s=67958
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=93589&ac=1
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http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/alltimeset.aspx?s=55643 Retired this after the state quarters were complete.

 

I love the series, too. I've pondered for some time just why that is, other than timing: here we are, at the beginning.

Just to get it on the table, there's Eric Jordan's argument for the modern reverse changing type.

But thirdly, the aesthetics of it are why I really dig it, and actually not for the bust...I actually prefer the former iteration! I thoroughly enjoy the reverses as Art: the subject choice, the perspective, the finish. Certainly I like some designs better than others (Hood and Olympic jump to mind), however there's something for everyone, you might say. ATBs invoke in me something akin to my opinion of Early Commems, but I haven't put my finger directly on as to why, just yet.

 

Perusing these was like my ears perking up, upon hearing "Ode to Joy."

 

Well if you only want to count coins from proof and mint sets then it is much closer to every collector can have one from each mint.....same as every other piece in the series which make it no scarcer than any other.

Of course they counted everyone who threw a state quarter into their change jar as being a collector. I have some acetone, sulfuric acid, sulfur and a few other things so obviously I'm a chemist. I have a set of tools so I must be a mechanic as well.

Actually a much closer estimate of the number of collectors is probably in the one to two million range and if you narrow it even further to those willing to pay a significant amount above the coins face or bullion value it is probably closer to the one million figure.

 

The mintages will continue to go down year after year. I'm predicting 5M or less for each issue of the last couple years. And most of them will be in circulation, which will make the Mint State examples few and far between. If one of them drops under 1M, like the 09-S VDB, you better believe I'll be buying rolls of the stuff.