2020-W Quarters

I haven't found one single 2019 W quarter.....AND I LIVE 20 MILES FROM WEST POINT

 

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groan.

 

It would be helpful if these coins were available, at minimum, in a separate set, whether proof or uncirculated. Rolls of 40 coins would also be nice.

 

That would defeat the hype and novelty of the scheme.

 

We've already got plenty of novelty coins like that. The ones included with standard sets drive artificial demand for those standard sets, then get parted out to feed the after-market. Rolls or bags? The Mint has been selling rolls and bags of business-strike ATB quarters with the S mint-mark, with mintages under a million; everybody yawns.

Being hard to find is the point.

 

The idea was to gain attention and draw in new collectors. If the Mint had made them available as you suggest that would have defeated the purpose.

 

I’m totally surprised by the dissent. To each their own, I suppose. I think the 2019W was a great idea. The 2020 idea is cool too, imo.

 

I haven't been able to do a lot of searching for them in rolls. I did buy a few rolls of 'hopefully all' 2019 quarters and found 1 W quarter. I'm looking to get three of each and I'm about half way there. I like them putting out W quarters this year too.

Question though: what is a 'privy' mark? Thanks!

 

Guess the odds of me finding a RONR W that's been elusive have just gone up.

 

A privy mark was originally a small mark or differentiation in the design of a coin for the purpose of identifying the mint, moneyer, some other aspect of the coin's origin, or to prevent counterfeiting.

 

Thanks! Any idea what they have in mind for the W quarters this year?

 

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It's in the article that I originally posted...

 

RONR?

 

River of No Return I'm assuming.

 

Crikey. I was on a completely different track. Thanks.

 

From @furryfrog02:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/2020-w-quarters.353559/

 

To me the privy mark on the 2020-W Quarters is something that someone came up with that's totally different to try and spark an interest in coins so they can sell those high priced items containing them to give the Mint more revenue.

 

Phase 1: Release new quarters into circulation with all the normal quarters
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!

 

Great. Five more that I'll most likely never get because I'm not about to pay for a roll only to get a single coin.

 

So you live 20 wiles from West Point, they aren't distributed from there. They strike them and then ship ALL of them to Philadelphia and Denver. And then they are shipped from there to Federal Reserve banks. Your best chance to find them is if you live in a city that has a FRB or a Federal Reserve branch bank.