Are There W Mint Marks in 'Crossing the Delaware' Quarters?

Oh! I misunderstood.

Well, you won't find W of the "Crossing the Delaware" quarter because the stupid US Mint stopped the W quarters-in-circulation program after the last ATB quarter.

 

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actually, no.

The last ATB Quarter was 2021 Tuskegee Airmen National Park and it was not minted at West Point, either.

 

Ws are 2019 and 2020 only, and, I feel pretty confident, somewhere off the beaten path out there across the U.S., much like the Ark at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, there's brand new pallets of both years with Ws in them sitting in warehouses waiting for a demand to blow the dust off them to be distributed or even in major cities being buried in newer product because the armored carrier that does the distribution doesn't bother rotating inventory because coins don't go bad and a sealed pallet is easy to inventory.

I "feel" like there's still hundreds of thousands of the 2 million of each design W quarters sitting around out there waiting to be rolled up and distributed, and I feel like this because of getting entire BU solid date boxes of 2016, 2017, 2018 quarters when I started this W hunt in 2019. No way to know for sure of course but I wouldn't be surprised if 10-20%, maybe more of the annual production wasn't distributed and sitting around somewhere collecting dust like a time capsule.

 

We can only hope.

 

Seriously?! They couldn't see it through to one more?!

 

I wish. But I can't be hopeful when it comes to the US Mint anymore. I've been too sorely disappointed by them of late...

 

Hang onto your Washington Crossing the Delaware quarters. Here is my theory of why you should (for now).
1.Although it is now officially the new reverse design for quarters, you won't see it again for the next 10 years because they have "special" reverses coming out the next 10 years.
2. The WCD Quarter is the first since 1999 that the date was moved back to the front of the quarter. Also the portrait of Washington on the front is the old original design in place of the "spaghetti hair" one.

3. For some unknown reason (to me) the WCD quarter was not sold by the mint in rolls or bags, meaning they were all dumped into circulation, making me wonder about mintage numbers. The other 2021 Tuskegee Airmen Quarters were sold in bags and rolls (P,D & S). To me.....This means the only S mm WCD quarters will be those in Proof and Silver Proof sets, setting them up to be possible important low mintage coins.

I have several bank rolls of WCD's and I hang on to all the nice ones I come across in circulation just in case. Many of our members say they have yet to find any in circulation.

THIS IS NO MORE THEN SPECULATION ON MY PART! But I'm still holding onto all of them just in case.

 

3. The reason it's not sold in rolls and bags is its not a state quarter series release, which is why they were selling those in rolls and bags for collectors of the series. They only did the S mint circulation strikes from like 2013 and carried it on from then until the end of the parks quarters series but they intended those to be a 1 year thing for the sanfrancisco mint celebration thing. They kept it because it was popular and sold. They are doing rolls and bags of American women quarters PD and S again though so maybe it's a commemorative reverse thing for bags and rolls and S mm?

The best Ps and Ds are gonna come from mint sets as usual, probably why it's been sold out also besides them not making enough of them. If there's speculation it's most likely on the highest graded examples and them coming out of the mint set I'd think.... not so much the rolls or bags.

And that reminds me I should probably bite the bullet and buy a mint set on the secondary market before the year ends just in case the price shoots up due to low production and demand. It's becoming pretty clear they won't be making any more before the end of the year at this point. Probably better to pay a little more now instead of a lot more later.

I did save a roll of the best 2021 P WCD I could put together from 20 rolls I got this year. I still don't think any of them make MS68 or better though but did it just because I had the opportunity to do it. Worst case I can spend them in a couple years or trade for Ds or something.

 

That makes perfect sense. I wasn't collecting before the states series so all I have know is them always having bags and rolls.

 

I don't know exactly when the bags and rolls thing started, I'd assume with half dollars though and it progressed from there, Quarters started with the state quarters though and then they did it with dollar coins, the 2009 cents with the 4 reverses. I think it either needs to be a coin they aren't distributing that year to circulation but have authority to mint, so they have to mint some each year anyways,
or a collector/commemorative style thing like they do on the reverses for the last couple decades that people most likely will want to buy. Like with the quarters I know they sold them in rolls and bags in 2004..... I don't "think" they were doing it in 1999 when the state quarters began though, I'm really not sure but I can't find info to verify they were selling them by bags and rolls then, Of course that was back when the Fed was doing distribution to banks themselves and you could request rolls from any bank and they would request from the fed and the fed would deliver them to the banks for the customers, that stopped in 2012 but was being phased out from like 2004 I think.....

I don't know all of this well, I tried to pay attention to it as this all occurred, and figure out what was going on when the fed transitioned to "distribution hubs" and contractors for distribution management and just conducted inventory oversight. they didn't make it easy though, the transition period from around 2004-2012 wasn't very publicized. The mint selling bags and rolls directly of certain things I think is an expansion of the kennedy half *NIFC* thing because that was working, and them finding a way to make rolls of certain desirable designs available, the 2004 nickels, the 2009 cents, the state quarters, the NA dollars, ect. for a profit, to collectors in that format instead of the fed just giving them away.