The Great Basin S-Mint AtB just sold out, making it the lowest mintage AtB S-Mint business strike so far. Sales as of 6/8/2014 are 1,315,120.
This may be the low for the series. Not sure if people are into these though. May be worth getting one graded to hang on to for a while.
Perfect "Storm"? Somewhat low mintage and little interest today - perfect coins to put away for when they have their day.
I have bought 2 x $25 bags of each of the "S" mintmark quarters for circulation since they first started selling them. They may be worth slightly more than the money in my savings acct. drawing 0.01% interest, SOMEDAY
SOMEDAY? I pay less than $0.50/ea and sell them for, well, more than a buck. These will do and have done much better than a savings account.
Top pop is pricey: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2013-S-GREA...76?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item5d4bdee138
Top Pop in most anything can get pricey. For a while at least. Of course, if an MS69 shows up, then the bottom falls out of the MS68 price. Looking at the PCGS Price Guide, I see that the 2013 Great Basin is actually valued far above the S Mint coin in MS68. (Pop of 1 vs Pop of 3) At this point, it looks like the seller is just pushing the envelope.
Yeah, these Top Pop prices are crazy. I and my budget are thankful everyday that I do not appreciate the minute difference in eye appeal these Top Pops offer compared to a slightly lower grade. However, I do think any grade S-Mint AtB could soon sell for $10 to $20 apiece, making the current roll/bag price a great value.
I have been keeping calculations of the numbers of uncirculated quarters sold via bags and rolls, and it might interest you that the P and D Great basin issues also appear to be the lowest amounts for the National Parks series, too, looks like they will both settle around 1,130,000.
True, there may be fewer mint wrapped P&D rolls, but there are a total of 263,800,000 P&D's made for circulation, many of which will probably be saved. So, which mint will be the scarcest down the road? True some collect paper wrappers, but I tend to go with absolute mintage as an indicator of potential value, believing eventually most rolls will be broken up.
Thanks for posting what I was about to post! "Probably be Saved" or most certainly will be available in the future. These coins are simply NOT circulating as the Federal Reserve Bank does not have in place the mechanism it had in place for the State Quarters where banks could order pure boxes of the newest release. Orders now are filled by mixed boxes of old and new quarters. The ONLY source for "guaranteed" full rolls of the ATB Quarters is from the US Mint. What this means, is that the coins themselves, meaning all ATB's, are scarce. For now. When the need arises though, the banks will be flooded again with mixed dates of coins. On the OTHER HAND, these S Mint Circulation Quality coins will get capped at 1.3 million or so. No hundreds of millions for future collectors which could provide a consistently available profit for those that have purchased these coins. This is a good thing since some day, the world population WILL be at 15 or 20 billion souls.
True, I agree with you, I wasn't trying to say they would be scarce, nor that they would be scarcer than the 'S' Great Basin. Just that these have been bought in bags and rolls in smaller quantities than any previous P or D issue so far in this seies. This may play out in the rolls bringing a little premium, even though the circulation mintage is relatively high. There are also situations in the State Quarter series in which a state's circulation mintage is high yet the BU rolls bring higher prices anyway, due to their not being saved as much in mint state.
Ok SQG: Picked up a sealed mint bag of 100 Great Basin. I will take a chance on it being the lowest S ATB mintage.
I picked up a few rolls too. Of course, who knows which will be the lowest by the time the series ends.
