I have been going thru my stash. I will keep an eye out. All mine are Denver though. A little smaller mintage at 832,240.
I long ago lost track of the modern quarters. Calling myself a numismatist, I really should know more about them, but since I do not actively collect moderns and I no longer use coins in commerce, I remain out of the loop. There are no doubt dozens of designs I've never seen or heard of. Sure, I remember the Statehood series, and a few of the National Park ones... but after that, I just got lost. Is that kind of what happened with stamps? Too many commemorative designs? Eh, I dunno. Pocket change is certainly more interesting than it was before 1999, with the last of the SBA dollars and the advent of the Statehood quarters. For most of my early collector days, change was just dull, with the same five or six designs. I'm glad it is more varied now. But I find that I personally have lost interest in all that now. It's kind of sad, I know.
Thanks for the tip, though. Maybe I should keep my eyes open, after all. Y'know, I never did go looking for W-mint quarters, either.
This should tell why people are no longer interested in stamp collecting. I started stamp collecting in 1948 at the same time I started coin collecting. I quit when the USPS started issuing wallpaper (too many stamps). I am including here a summary of the issues: USPS Stamp Issues. The first two lines represent about 50 years each. The following lines are by decades. 1847 to 1899 293 6 new stamps per year 1900 to 1949 693 14 new stamps per year 1950 to 1959 152 15 new stamps per year 1960 to 1969 247 25 new stamps per year 1970 to 1979 408 41 new stamps per year 1980 to 1989 643 64 new stamps per year 1990 to 1999 931 93 new stamps per year 2000 to 2009 1065 106 new stamps per year The same is going on at the US Mint. Too many coin designs being pushed.
When you crack out a coin and send it to be graded does that introduce one more coin the the population, or is the original removed? Sorry, I posted this in the wrong thread.
Their theory is collectors will be forced to buy 1 sheet each of all the stamps we produce each year. Same goes for coins. But with stamps it all stopped when the stamps were self stick and then made forever with no price. Collectors rejected and plain stopped buying. Having been with the post office for many years and as a manager I knew what was going on. I am no longer a stamp collector.
859,000 = low mintage???? Most of my coins have 50 or less known specimens; of course their ancients.
Maybe the US Mint site is wrong, but it appears that I can still order rolls or bags of P and D of these. Only the 3 roll set of P D S shows currently unavailable. I have yet to see one in change though.
The latest production figures on the Mint's website shows about 185 million minted from Philadelphia and Denver each.
I was wondering if the screenshot posted by @John1397 was accurate or where it came from. It seemed crazy that they would have coined so few of them and yet you can still buy rolls.
