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PF66.

I kindda like the post-'98 quarters as well as the bicentennial issue from 1976. They have real value and are historically important in their own rights but I also like the spice they add to all the circulating quarters. Don't forget we're fast approaching the point that 70% of circulating quarters are post '98 design meaning a mere 30% are the old eagle reverse clad quarters. While no one pays any attention to those the fact is it's getting pretty hard to find any of them in XF or AU and even VF's are getting a little elusive if you want nice well made coins without being covered in the little scratches caused by repetitious passages through endless counting machines. Who would have thought back in 1970 that you couldn't even easily obtain a nice late date eagle reverse clad quarter, one that wouldn't even be made for another quarter century in nice chVF!!! Who would have thought that all those coins in circulation would be gone or severely degraded without anyone having preserved specimens?

The states, parks, women's, etc quarters just highlight what happens when collectors ignore circulating coinage for sixty years. Now some of the early parks coins are getting some pretty nice premiums and there are all manner of new collectibles in circulation from special mint marks to lower mintages. S- mint quarters circulate for so many years the attrition is reducing their already low number. I just got an XF from 2016 the other week. By the time a quarter has worn down to XF there is a nearly 40% chance it has already been lost forever or recycled into a toaster and apparently up to about 35% of the S mints are in circulation.

Everyone thinks all you have to do to find a nice chVG or better 1971 quarter is to check your pocket change.

Wrong.

Most of the very low mintage is gone now. You can offer bid for a '71 mint set and get one because there are still a few left but the philly quarter will be corroded.

People have been noticing these things and even though only about 25% of Americans use change regularly the fact is 25% of 335,000,000 is still a very big number. The number is far larger than the virtually zero number of 1971 quarters that are easily available.

This isn't the '70's any longer and the time has just slipped away while no one watched.

The value in this set is the 8 silver coins, plus the lincoln proof coin. That is 9 coins.

The UNC set really only has one coin, so this one has 8 times more.

ats 216,086

They must have sold the rest of the 250k to dealers.

I expect prices to be higher than $300 for these once the dust settles.

The mint likes selling coins. Collectors like completing sets. More designs = more sales.

edited to add... And when I say "The mint", I really mean "Congress", since the mint doesn't make those decisions.

@NJCoin said:

The fact is that this set now sells for over double what it did a few years ago. $150 would be plenty for each of 250K of them. $245 is obnoxious. It would do well if they only made 150K of them, or if they cut the price.

But they are pricing it based on how last year's did in the secondary market, counting on excitement over the dual dates and privies to carry the day and support the higher mintage. People puking out their subscriptions ahead of release, and the buyers clubs losing interest, tell a different story.

You just summed up why the mintages are almost certain to decline in future years, even more so if the issue price is increased (again) whether for higher spot prices or not, which it (almost) certainly will be.

Give it a few years, and this year's "low mintage" won't be so low, not that it actually is now.

So, the question then becomes, are the one-year designs sufficient to compensate for an inflated issue price?

I'll take the "under" on that wager.

It isn't interesting enough as a collectible for such a common (yes, common) set.

if not b/o; if you are trying to secure quantities for resale on public venues (ebay) - netting around 70 bucks after fees with a store.
No store - neeting about 30 bucks.
Not worth the aggrevation in the race to the bottom.

A local show with "fresh" stock. Now there is a rarity.

I'm waiting for presidential pets and marble champs.
I also have lost interest. I'll get a proof set but this will probable be the end .