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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1636644, member: 4626&quot;]Hundreds of millions when you add up the year&#039;s mintages of the quarters, didn&#039;t mean the individual types, but my point still stands... 10&#039;s of millions is still too high to become valuable in the long term.&nbsp; (1955 Roosevelt dime, rarest regular issue in the series... 12 million minted, got one in MS66 for $12, less than the cost of grading the thing.&nbsp; So that quarter that 20 million was minted of?&nbsp; What do you think that will be worth in 50 years lol?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have my little ATB quarter album and saving one of each, and I incidentally have a proof of each one because I get a clad proof set every year (silver proof sets just feel too artificial for my taste).&nbsp; That&#039;s plenty for me and I don&#039;t care about silly gimmicks like S-minted business strikes or silver proofs, whether they&#039;ll go up significantly in value or not (as I&#039;ve said many times on this board, coin collecting is a hobby for me, not an investment).&nbsp; Sometimes I got the S-minted business strikes from the mint because I just didn&#039;t have time/feel like going the the Denver mint&#039;s gift shop (where you can get as many ATB quarters as you want for face value, but they&#039;re all D&#039;s) just so I wouldn&#039;t have buy 2 rolls of quarters when I only wanted 1 individual quarter.&nbsp; I sell a few of the extras to friends and family who care, and just spend the rest unless I find any in the roll that are in decent enough condition to be worth saving (and so far I haven&#039;t; can tell you any of these better than MS65 may actually be a rarity lol but good luck finding them when you have to pay double face to even look for them).&nbsp; So far I haven&#039;t found a single one that even the loosest grading standards would call better than a 65 at best.&nbsp; The Mint just doesn&#039;t care to do any QC on these things apparently, but why should they bother when they can get people to pay double face value anyway, no matter how crappy they are lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s millions of these things.&nbsp; Even the S-minted quarters being hyped up are minted at a million and a half each at least.&nbsp; There&#039;s not millions of people collecting them.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how anyone looks at that and figures that means they&#039;ll be super valuable in the long run.&nbsp; The math just doesn&#039;t work.&nbsp; You want to believe that 2 + 2 will eventually equal 5 if you wait long enough, go ahead.&nbsp; I&#039;m tired of trying to convince people it will only come out to 4 and will always only come out to 4.&nbsp; Believe what you like but I stand by my statement that the ATBs are a sucker&#039;s bet if you think hoarding them will make you rich in 10 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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