San Francisco business strike quarters....

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  1. Lawtoad

    Lawtoad Well-Known Member

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  3. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    They've been making ATB business strike quarters since like 2013?
     
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  4. Lawtoad

    Lawtoad Well-Known Member

    Shows how out of touch I have been about current mint practices. It is funny that the U.S. Mint website still says San Fran produces proof and bullion coins, except it does say they do not mint circulating coins. I took that to mean proofs and special striking. I guess that is what I get when I assume.
     
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  5. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    I tend to stay away from 99.9% of the crap the mint spews out. I have run into probably 10-15 of these San Fran business strikes while roll searching quarters. Interesting but really nothing more than a gimmick.
     
  6. gronnh20

    gronnh20 Well-Known Member

    Nothing better than the smell of money when opening a fresh bag of coins. Like a warm apple pie on the window sill.

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  7. Long Beard

    Long Beard Well-Known Member

    Although it does not specify I would think the bags and rolls of San Francisco are proof versions. Again, it only states the composition not the finish and the proofs are clad. Don't forget, these are available to collectors or dealers only and not shipped to the reserve branches for distribution.
     
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  8. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    Nope. They are business strikes.
    Here is a proof and a business strike from the same design I found CRH'ing
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  9. gronnh20

    gronnh20 Well-Known Member

    Where the mint failed at gimmicks, was not salting the bags of P, D, and S mint quarters with W mint quarters. Like a limited number of quarters dispersed in random with the bags. Maybe you got one maybe you didn't. Maybe 5,000-10,000 salted coins.
     
  10. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    Furry those are 2 different designs.
     
  11. Lawtoad

    Lawtoad Well-Known Member

    Need to add a page in the album for these S mint business strikes. It is true that in this hobby you always are learning or catching up.
     
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  12. TheFinn

    TheFinn Well-Known Member

    They're business strikes, but they don't perform business. They must be purchased above face value. They're really NCLT.
     
  13. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    Doh. How did I mess that up? lol
     
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  14. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    I wonder why they stopped offering the $250 bags? ~ Chris
     
  15. Paul_62

    Paul_62 Just takin' it one day at a time

    It began in 2012
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  16. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    You aren't really wrong, the S mint "business strikes" are a "special striking" because they are not released into circulation. They are for sale to collectors only. Yes you can spend them they are legal tender. And if you do they will circulate until some collector notices them and snaps them up. But you can spend and circulate proof coins too. Doesn't stop them from being "special strikings". As long as they are not made FOR circulation, they are "special".
     
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