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2 million of each design with W mintmarks, 10 million total will be released into circulation this year. So far 3 designs have been released. Your find was the first of the 5 designs and been out the longest. They sell on ebay, raw and ungraded for between $10 and $15 each with the newer design going up to like $20 each. When they first release they can sell in that first week for $80-$100 ungraded and then it starts dropping fast as more are found and listed for sale, but seems like these will end up stabilizing around $12 each average for ungraded W coins. Graded examples are another story though, not sure what going on with that. Best idea is to put it in a flip, or 2x2, or airtite, and wait and see how things settle in the long run. As always, highest graded is most valuable though so don't mess it up or lick it or anything like that. Lol
Nice info! Thank you. That was I was thinking too, case it up and see what the value would be in 10 years.
I dunno about 10 years but for sure the ones found early and protected from damage will be the highest values, only questions really is how many will be found early and protected, how many circulated a while then found, how many were roll enders and got the wrapper machine ring of death on them, ect. I would think as time goes on all 2 million of each design will either be caught early and saved or circulate and be low grade/damaged. Maybe 10% of the 2 million will be MS64 or better tops I'd think, and gotta wonder if 20K examples would be more than enough to fill collector demand for better graded examples. Only time will tell. Plenty of people will be happy enough with a circulated example for their coin folder collection I'd think, and I think the 1.9 million+ circulated that can't make the grade of them will fill that demand. So just the collectors that want better to the best and don't know if that 10% of each design will have it covered.