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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7585620, member: 105098&quot;]Hi Wood duck!</p><p><br /></p><p>My research into this in 2019 pre-pandemic came to the conclusion that the mint shipped everything out to the armored carriers in the ballistic bag pallets, with a couple ice machine scoopers full of W quarters tossed into each one. </p><p><br /></p><p>that said, it really depends on how the armored carriers that are contracted by the&nbsp; Fed Reserve to handle the inventory, rolling and distribution to the banks of the area (fed reserve just conducts audits and oversite now, the armored carriers handle the operations).</p><p><br /></p><p>Some Carriers, might do FIFO, some might do LIFO, some might always prioritize circulated coinage being returned and keep the ballistic pallets on the shelves. it depends on how they handle their operation. One may leave the pallet intact as received from the mint, one may roll and box it and stack the boxes and let them sit until they are needed,&nbsp; another may immediately roll and distribute them and take it out of inventory. it depends on how they view the Fed inventory and accounting/audits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that all said, since the pandemic and the &quot;great coin shortage of 2020&quot; theoretically, the armored carriers should NOT be sitting on any inventory from the Mint/fed reserve, because of the shortage it SHOULD have all gone out of their doors to the banks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Somehow I doubt that though. I think the shortage was more of a interruption from shutdowns and call outs from work, and lowered demand, and not so much a shortage of physical coinage, more of a shortage in ability to deliver to the banks to meet the demand. if that&#039;s the case, new stock in theory could be placed before older stock and buried&nbsp; 2019-2020 coins sitting in local inventories.</p><p><br /></p><p>as far as &quot;mixed rolls&quot;, they are just filling the machine, they might open a ballistic bag and run it though solo, or they might toss in circulated coins with it, or it might have the end of a run with the new coin mixed in, or the end of the new coin run and topped with circulated returns, as long as the accounting and inventory is right, it doesn&#039;t matter how they do it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, we don&#039;t know really what exactly might be sitting in the carriers inventory or how they control their inventory,&nbsp; or what form it&#039;s in, still intact in the mint shipping package, or bricks or stacked quarter boxes but I&#039;ll say this, even in March-Apr 2020 I was getting solid uncirculated boxes of 2018 Voyaguers, Cumberland or Pictured rocks.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also have gotten a box of Lowell 2019P that had about 100 or so mixed date circulated in the mix and gotten Ws from that</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the reason 2019W American Memorial park is scarce is because there&#039;s armored carries sitting on a lot of that release and it&#039;s buried in their inventory. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know from searching cents many years ago when the Fed was doing the distribution, I&#039;d come across BU cent boxes like 5 years old or so occasionally and wondered if someone just sat on a box and took ti back to the bank, or maybe the fed buried old inventory sometimes. ..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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