2019 Quarters - "S" vs. "W"
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2019-W uncirculated American Memorial Park quarter
Mintage 2,000,000
Current price ~$25.00
2019-S uncirculated American Memorial Park quarter
Mintage 904,880
Current price ~$0.80
The “W” quarter was released into circulation and is more difficult to find. It is collected primarily as a single coin.
The “S” quarter was available only directly from the Mint. However, it is heavily collected as rolls (40 coins) and bags (100 coins), leaving fewer single coins available for set collectors.
Both quarters are required for complete uncirculated sets.
Which is the better value? In the long run, should the “W” quarter really be worth as much as 30 of the much-lower-mintage “S” quarters?
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Id have to say in high grades the "W" is the better coin, although both will be difficult to find in higher grades since they are not included in some sort of set.
I say yes!
I will go with my "S" which is unique as in one ....
Wow. Is that a “hit by meteorite” error?
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
Not quite sure, I was hoping it was gum but I don't think so once I got it in hand.
Some type of plasticy gunk as it is a soft material that did not take the strike.
A very odd and rare coin.
The answer is easy, supply & demand
In the long run, should the “W” quarter really be worth as much as 30 of the much-lower-mintage “S” quarters?
There are no mintage or product limits on uncirculated "S" quarters available in the "Rolls and Bags". There may very well be other quarter sets with earlier "S" coins still available from the mint.
Note that PCGS Coinfacts shows mintage for the 2019 American Memorial regular strike "S" coin to be "N/A." Where did OP get his mintage numbers for the uncirculated "S" coins he quoted?
The price of gold is set by faith, or lack of, in the currency it is priced in.
Which of the two is available directly from the mint for anyone who wants one. Which of the two is available only by a search of circulation coins or from a third party seller who sets the price?
While supply and demand determine price, availability is a large part of supply.
The price of gold is set by faith, or lack of, in the currency it is priced in.
I expect the W to hold its relative value against the S.
I personally want one of the W quarters, I think a type set should include each mint somehow. I would prefer to find one myself in circulation, but that is probably flexible, I wont find a CC in circulation... But even though I have a set of the SH/ATB quarters, as proofs, I don't bother with a complete circulation set, so I would not care about the S quarter at all. I'd value the S as a spender at 25 cents myself, but I could go higher on a W if I really had to, so I would say the relative valuation ought to be skewed even more than it is!
S mint in these sets are proof, OP is referring to the uncirculated issues...
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My bad, should have referenced the uncirculated rolls and bags of S coins available directly from the mint with no mintage or product limit. Have edited correction. Again, it's a question of availability which is a big part of supply.
The price of gold is set by faith, or lack of, in the currency it is priced in.
That says it ALL. "Availability". One can (It would be difficult, but possible) round up the majority of the Uncirculated "S's". Ala The Hunt Brothers, but the "W's", NO WAY! They should be well more valuable.
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Coin Update News, US Mint sales report for Dec. 20, 2020.
http://news.coinupdate.com/u-s-mint-sales-report-week-ending-december-20-2020/
8478 three-roll sets (PDS)
3859 single rolls (S)
4114 bags (S) 100 coins per bag
The coins are no longer available on the Mint website, so the sales totals are final or close to it.
Most of the recent years' "S" circulation-strike quarters have mintages of 900K to a million each. A few have less than 900K.
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Side note: I wonder how many people searching for "W" quarters will be puzzled by encountering an "S" mint quarter that was spent. (I've spent several dozen myself.) Most searchers are likely unaware that "S" quarters even exist.
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Actually I find them occasionally. They are fairly easy to pick out because they are slightly thicker and I think they are a W until I see they are an S. Like an undersized fish I throw them back in to the roll for someone else to find😂🤣
The "S" will end up being the better deal in sub-MS. The "W" will easily be the better deal in MS.
The W in higher MS grades will be the long term winner.....Cheers, RickO
Ok. So the Mint just released the last ATB quarter yesterday and confirmed that this Tuskegee Airmen quarter will not have any W produced. More importantly, they confirmed no 2021 W will be produced for circulated coinage! Do you think this will significantly increase the value of the W quarters?
In the long run, I think the W will come down. How long? My crystal ball is broken. But it is hyped now and some people are playing with the W coins/quarters that don't collect the quarters as a series.
While it may also seem oxymoronic, part of the reason for the 30x difference in price is that there is a 30x difference in price. It creates more demand than would otherwise be there.
Remember when Connecticut and Delaware quarters had a big premium?
Where are all the S mint coins? I was thinking of picking up a couple of 2020 Samoa bags from the mint but they were not available the last few months, evidently I was far too late to the game. I now see they are "Sold Out". Looking at the sales info there were 4,236 bags & 12,904 rolls sold for a total mintage of 939,760. There are a lot of these quarters out there somewhere. Only 283 have been graded at PCGS and another 300 at NGC.
Where are these hiding at? Do most end up in a closet in sealed mint packaging? Do a large number get searched for quality with the culls being "spent" as mentioned above? The numbers do not indicate they are being submitted for grading. I see some want them for the ole Dansco book but that can't account for too many. I can't see them being worth much premium to want to hoard. So what are people doing with these?
I suspect this is the case, at least with the rolls and roll sets, since they are more expensive on a per-coin basis than the 100-coin bags.
I'm not sure why the "S" quarters are not included in the annual mint sets - it's true that they're not struck for circulation, but neither are current-dated Kennedy halves, which are always included in mint sets. This lack of visibility may be the main reason why the "S" quarters are not more widely known and more popular.
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