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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 7661704, member: 105098"]The initial intention was to just do them in 2019 to generate interest. they did them again in 2020 for the V75. it wasn't intended to continue until the end of the ATB series, or even into 2020, this is why the first release of Samoa in 2020 was delayed, it was last minute basically to do it for a 2nd year. Could they have done it? Sure. But I think with covid screwing things up through 2020, and everything else on their plate for 2021 with the morgan dollars, Silver eagle transition, ect., they decided to let the W hunt sunset and focus on what they had to do that was on their plate. Who knows though, maybe they do it again, I think it was successful, and pulled off about as best as could be given the circumstances of the distribution chain, perfect, no. but it was pulled off. Personally I dislike the S business strikes, I think it's stupid that the series started in 2010, and they do those starting in 2012 until the end of the series. it's incomplete from the start. At least with the Ws, they did it for a year, then a 2nd year, and it's 2 stand alone sets that makes sense (at least to me).  The Partial S mint ATB series vexes me, but I try to justify it as a series of single year series of 5, like I do with the Ws. I still haven't collected the S mints though.[/QUOTE]