Looking at the U.S. Mint website, it appears that San Francisco is producing business strike 2020 Samoa "bat" quarters. They are available by the bag. Just had an online chat with someone who got a bag of them. Did I miss a thread here on CT about this or am I just missing something? https://catalog.usmint.gov/national...int%20bags&navid=search#q=Mint%20bags&start=1
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.
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.
Nothing better than the smell of money when opening a fresh bag of coins. Like a warm apple pie on the window sill.
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.
Nope. They are business strikes. Here is a proof and a business strike from the same design I found CRH'ing
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.
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.
They're business strikes, but they don't perform business. They must be purchased above face value. They're really NCLT.
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".