Mintage of 2013 America the Beautiful 'S' mint Circulation strikes?

Does anyone have the mintage figures for the San Francisco 2013 America the Beautiful circulation quality quarters? Obviously, they will not be minting any additional pieces, following the precedent set in 2012. Thanks for any insight, I can't find this information anywhere online.

 

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Here's a link for availability and sales;
http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/cumulativeSalesStatistics/index.cfm?PageNum=2&StartRow=90&#CM

They have been minting around 1.4 million each between single rolls, 3 roll sets, and 100 coin bags. You can still get 2013 s ABTs on all 5 issues at this posting.

 

Actually, White Mountain is now sold out with about 1.6M in sales.

 

These coins intrigue me. They have to potential to be key issues, providing enough of them get dumped into circulation to spark the interest of mainstream collectors. If they remain tightly held, then they will remain nothing more than a novelty item for a few collectors and not worth much more than mint cost. It's Schrodinger's Quarter; extremely valuable and worthless at the same time.

 

Maybe, but then, since they're sold in rolls & bags, many may remain in them and be scarce individually. Even if they're all set free from the rolls and bags, they should minimally be worth what a proof is, $5 to $10 a piece or what the 1996-w dime is, $15 to $20 a piece and much more in higher grades. At least the mintage indicates this, all depends what future demand is, which very well could be high. At least the parameters are there to speculate on these issues.

 

I was actually unaware that San Francisco was minting non-proof ATB quarters. After just a few minutes of reading, it looks like they started doing this in 2012. True? Will they keep doing this until the series ends in 2021?

 

I think it all depends on what the kids want to do with Grandpa's coin collection. We're talking decades from now. I think most people are going to hold on to these and they won't get much traction. If Junior inherits a bag of these and gets no interest from the coin shop and is outside of his collecting, then you'll find them in circulation which may spark interest in the roll searching community. Either way high grade coins will never be extremely rare.
I wish the San Francisco mint would have started these with the series. So far none of these have disappeared out from under me like the puck, so there's plenty of supply for the demand. I hope they continue but with the mint there's no telling.

 

We'll see. Things like this don't take decades to move anymore. Heck, the highest mintage one from 2012 is selling for $75 a roll on eBay and there's only 1 or 2 listed - they're disappearing because those holding them feel the price should be higher or they're holding them, which will drive the price higher. Most of the 2012's on ebay now are cherry picked rolls, low grade raw singles, and Acadia & Denali rolls because flippers bought them up when the other 3 sold out - won't be long before they settle into collections too. There just aren't that many rolls & bags out there, something like about 25k for each design. Yeah, high grade proofs aren't rare/scarce, but high grade business strikes are, especially from an already low total mintage. I've looked through about 20 rolls and only found 5 coins I'd call high grade - most were 60's or 63's. The only S business strikes you'll see in circulation will be the low grade/damaged ones collectors spend or stolen ones.

 

One major problem with these is that they started partway through the series. Collectors tend to be completists. These may end up being worth a lot someday but probably not in my lifetime.

 

To date I have NEVER knowingly gotten an ATB coin.
They don't appear to be circulating.

 

I've come across 2013 P ATB coins in circulation here in Nashville. I don't think I've seen a D yet. We have a lot of banks downtown plus a Federal Reverse mini-branch. A few in great condition. Seen current year dimes and nickles also. The down side is I can't say I've seen much in silver. The guy that runs the sandwich shop where I take lunch says he get about 3 or 4 silver coins a week. He also has the advantage of living in a part of town with a lot of retirees plus he's all over anything going in and out of his register. I guess ownership has it privileges.

 

Note that I said "knowingly".
The last post 1964 coins I collected were the District/territory coins that ended the state quarters series.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of them.
I was buying an Unc roll of each business strike (not one of my brighter moves).
I think I'll just take the whole bunch and dump them into a coin counter somewhere.

 

Apt analogy with Schrodinger's cat.
May have to refer to the ATB Quarters as C Jay's Quarters

 

What did you pay per roll at the time?

 

Well, it would have been nice if they started with the series in 2010, but not a MAJOR problem, they're still low mintage keys to the series.

"Not in my lifetime" works for most circulation coins out their, but not these S mints. If you bought them last year, you've more than double your money in less than a year. How many "investments" can you say that for? And, I'm not selling these for double - when they get to at least the price of a 1996-w dime, I'll consider offing a few. Hmm, how much would that be for a roll?

 

I did dump most of my state quarters (to buy early AtB's). But I did keep the Territories - still some potential there. Most of my sales at the shop are the Territories because they just aren't out there in circulation.

 

I hope you get that rate of return! TC

 

But f you didn't buy them last year how much potential do they still have? Will they continue moving up? Or now that they are no longer a novelty will they stagnate or potentially drop making them a lousy investment?

Considering I believe there are more of them out there in Unc than there are active collectors, I would think they have peaked.

 

I think that the general public doesn't even know they have been released, and when enough ATB quarters reach circulation, the collector base should greatly increase, bringing up the values of both the "S" mint coins and the early years relatively "low mintage" coins.

 

+1 No way they've peaked, they're just getting started.