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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1859786, member: 66&quot;]The general public doesn&#039;t CARE.&nbsp; Even in the early years when the general public was excited about the state quarters few of them cared about mintmarks.&nbsp; One of each and they were happy.&nbsp; Oh sure some that were filling boards for grandchildren wanted both, but most of them wanted them for face value or maybe 50 cents each.&nbsp; Pay more for an S mint proof?&nbsp; Nah not interested.&nbsp; And I don&#039;t think there will be a lot of interest from the general public in the ATB quarters.&nbsp; To most of them it will be &quot;just another state quarter&quot;.&nbsp; Forget the Mint&#039;s figure of there being 150 million collectors.&nbsp; Most were never collectors, they were hoarders, and when you get to the point of having to PAY more than a few dollars for a coin the number of collectors drops to 2 million or less, and not all of them collect ATB quarters.&nbsp; In most series you don&#039;t really start seeing a premium for a coin unless it has a mintage of a million or less.&nbsp; But in the other series the coins were released into circulaion and were worn lost or destroyed so the survival rate is low.&nbsp; The Business strike 2012 S&nbsp; ATB quarters have the million coin mintage, but the survival rate is close to 100%&nbsp; Prices are high now because they are not &quot;evenly distributed&quot;.&nbsp; Too many still tied up in hoards.&nbsp; The 1995 proof set had that problem too, and the prices rose to close to $150 a set.&nbsp; That shook them out of hiding and into the marketplace where they got distributed.&nbsp; Today it is an $8 set.&nbsp; Less than issue price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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