Found this roll hunting yesterday

Matt97932

This is the 2nd W that I have found. Wish it was in better shape; but still awesome I think.

seanq

Nicely done - I can't even remember to look at the few quarters that pass through my pockets.

Sean Reynolds

291fifth

I still haven't found a "W" in circulation.

johnny9434

i got 1 in 3 years

BuffaloIronTail

It's actually more awesome with wear. You don't see many like that.

Pete

ricko

I am in a constant search mode for W quarters in the wild - and I shop with cash often just to get change. The only one I have found in the wild, was in a Coinstar reject slot. Cheers, RickO

may

I've never found one, but an awesome find!

What's your favorite W quarter design?

Mr_Spud

I look at all my change every day and haven’t found one W yet.

Manifest_Destiny

Cool! I found a "W" a couple years ago, not that one though. I haven't really been paying attention since then.

coinbuf

Nice find, still a few floating around in the wild.

joeykoins

@291fifth said:
I still haven't found a "W" in circulation.

Lol,
Com'on guys!
I do realize the "not looking for" concept, but one must truly want it, to find it!
Some may know me here, in the 3 -4 years searching, I'm on my 205th W!
First off, ask your bank for a whole box of Quarters.
Good Luck, guys.
😉

jfriedm56

Never found any in the wild yet. Still looking!

joeykoins

Also, finding these ( certain ones ), can be VERY PROFITABLE!
Here's one I found than had graded by PCGS.
2020W Rockefeller
w/ privy V75

I sold it for $850!

291fifth

@joeykoins said:

@291fifth said:
I still haven't found a "W" in circulation.

Lol,
Com'on guys!
I do realize the "not looking for" concept, but one must truly want it, to find it!
Some may know me here, in the 3 -4 years searching, I'm on my 205th W!
First off, ask your bank for a whole box of Quarters.
Good Luck, guys.
😉

My car can't handle the weight of those quarter boxes.

OAKSTAR

@ricko said:
I am in a constant search mode for W quarters in the wild - and I shop with cash often just to get change. The only one I have found in the wild, was in a Coinstar reject slot. Cheers, RickO

Hey @ricko- I bet your chances of finding a W quarter in the wild would increase 1000%, if you spent 50% less time on this forum. 😂 🤣..............Am I right? 😉 Sorry, I repeat myself. I couldn't resist. 😂 🤣

OAKSTAR

It's a shame you can see how they are really deteriorating in circulation.

It's also a shame that the Mint couldn't have distributed the W's more equitably throughout the country. Some guys have found none, others have found hundreds.

MarkKelley

I've found 60-70 of them, but none recently.

Jimnight

Nice find... I still haven't found one roll hunting or in my change.

daltex

@OAKSTAR said:
It's a shame you can see how they are really deteriorating in circulation.

It's also a shame that the Mint couldn't have distributed the W's more equitably throughout the country. Some guys have found none, others have found hundreds.

I see the real shame as threefold: 1) they didn't/don't circulate. I'll bet that between 90 and 95% of these were found in rolls. 2) the mintmark doesn't make the coin distinctive. If one of our non-collecting friends was looking through, say, a roll of quarters he'd be very unlikely to say "Hey, this is different!" People would be more excited by a wheat cent they got in change. And I'll bet that most of our non-collecting friends has a '50s circulated wheatie saved aside because they just know it's rare and valuable. 3) they're just too common. People today just aren't going to get excited by finding a coin worth $5 to $20 in their change. Don't misunderstand me; they'll absolutely take the money, but they're not going to do a ton of extra work to find these coins. I mean when we were told to "check our change" for a 1943 copper cent that was worth up to $250,000, that was a lot of money. What they can get from trotting this quarter down to a dealer wouldn't buy them a movie ticket.

The problem with these quarters is that the whole very expensive plan has brought almost no one (maybe no one at all) into the hobby. A success would look like people saying "These are kind of cool. I wonder what else there is in this hobby. I think it happened some with the statehood quarters, but I think most of those new "collectors" plugged the fiftieth quarter into their coin board with a sigh of relief and shoved it into a desk drawer never to be seen again. Not at all here.

OAKSTAR

@daltex said:

@OAKSTAR said:
It's a shame you can see how they are really deteriorating in circulation.

It's also a shame that the Mint couldn't have distributed the W's more equitably throughout the country. Some guys have found none, others have found hundreds.

2) the mintmark doesn't make the coin distinctive.

Then what does?

@daltex said:

@OAKSTAR said:
It's a shame you can see how they are really deteriorating in circulation.

It's also a shame that the Mint couldn't have distributed the W's more equitably throughout the country. Some guys have found none, others have found hundreds.

If one of our non-collecting friends was looking through, say, a roll of quarters he'd be very unlikely to say "Hey, this is different!"

That's probably because the average American probably never even heard of the W quarters.

@daltex said:

@OAKSTAR said:
It's a shame you can see how they are really deteriorating in circulation.

It's also a shame that the Mint couldn't have distributed the W's more equitably throughout the country. Some guys have found none, others have found hundreds.

People would be more excited by a wheat cent they got in change. And I'll bet that most of our non-collecting friends has a '50s circulated wheatie saved aside because they just know it's rare and valuable.

@daltex said:

@OAKSTAR said:
It's a shame you can see how they are really deteriorating in circulation.

It's also a shame that the Mint couldn't have distributed the W's more equitably throughout the country. Some guys have found none, others have found hundreds.

3) they're just too common. People today just aren't going to get excited by finding a coin worth $5 to $20 in their change. Don't misunderstand me; they'll absolutely take the money, but they're not going to do a ton of extra work to find these coins. I mean when we were told to "check our change" for a 1943 copper cent that was worth up to $250,000, that was a lot of money. What they can get from trotting this quarter down to a dealer wouldn't buy them a movie ticket.

You're probably right.

@daltex said:

@OAKSTAR said:
It's a shame you can see how they are really deteriorating in circulation.

It's also a shame that the Mint couldn't have distributed the W's more equitably throughout the country. Some guys have found none, others have found hundreds.

The problem with these quarters is that the whole very expensive plan has brought almost no one (maybe no one at all) into the hobby.

I'm not to sure about that.

@daltex said:

@OAKSTAR said:
It's a shame you can see how they are really deteriorating in circulation.

It's also a shame that the Mint couldn't have distributed the W's more equitably throughout the country. Some guys have found none, others have found hundreds.

A success would look like people saying "These are kind of cool. I wonder what else there is in this hobby. I think it happened some with the statehood quarters, but I think most of those new "collectors" plugged the fiftieth quarter into their coin board with a sigh of relief and shoved it into a desk drawer never to be seen again. Not at all here.

Yes, I'd agree. The statehood quarters were very popular and probably brought many into the coin collecting hobby.