I think prices are coming down but still high. From what I've heard it sounds like people who have found them have found rolls of them before they could get distributed and some people have sold many of them. I've said it before and can say it again. The W quarters have been out since 2019 and 2020. They released 20 MILLION of them into circulation and to date I've only found a couple in my change by chance. Always check. I'm guessing most of us will NEVER see a July 4th privy quarter, any year,unless in a coin shop case or on ebay. 250k dispersed into billions and many people already hoarding rolls and boxes of them before they got out. People have people at banks looking for them.
The design is just one of the already released (in sets, at least) 5 designs for 2026 quarters (the Declaration of Independence design). Nothing new or different about it, except no mint mark and a privy mark. Any idea where they are actually being minted? I can't seem to find that info anywhere.
Yeah, when I said the Mint was "doing something right" with this, I think I was a bit naive. If they're shipping out a roll or box at a time, that's just inviting insiders to snag them and profiteer. But I really can't imagine the Mint contriving a way to distribute them into rolls or bags of normal strikes. I'd love it if they did; I just don't expect it.
Some of you may have heard about this guy who found 815 of them. He has a youtube channel, apparently about roll hunting. He has sold 123 so far at $650 a pop on ebay https://ebay.io/m/jdDY75
Wow! Well not a 4th of July but right after I said I’ve pulled two W quarters in my life from circulation… The local grocery store just gave me a 2020 Wier Farm: Unfortunately scratched and finger print on obverse but reverse is still fresh.
Was that "Rob Finds Treasures"? I used to watch his youtube sub. His wife was too much of a babbler to continue though. I thought roll hunting was dead by now.
Another youtube channel said he found over 800 of them in a box and has another box he hasn't opened yet. Said he gave some away last week. So the 161 may be only what he has sold on ebay. I think he has sold a lot more.
The fact that one individual is finding them by the 100's tells me the mint is doing a terrible job of "randomly placing them in circulation" or there's some kind of inside track to locating them. Either way, I don't hold much hope of finding one, but, like mentioned upthread, I'm not really drawn to them either.
It's the former. Unless they went out of their way to feed the privy quarters into the supply over several weeks, it makes sense that veins of them will form. This happened with the Ws, too.
Yeah I don't think it's on purpose. I would imagine batches of them go out initially and it's possible for a roll searcher to nab one of them before they have a chance to distribute. A business could have asked for the same box and then they would have been dispersed in change. You still would have thought a roll or two would have been intermingled with standards rather than entire boxes of them going out. Can't speak for them.
