NEW roll of Quarters from the Bank vs The US Mint?

maddox

Are the NEW rolls of quarters you get from the bank the same as the rolls you would get from the US Mint?
Just curious?

ScarsdaleCoin

quarters at the bank are wrapped by private services like brinks, dunbar, etc....the only real difference is that the Mint has a Mint wrapper and banks use private label wrappers....some banks use clear plastic, hope this info helps

Steve27

No, they cost less (sorry I couldn't help myself).

maddox

Thats what I thought, seems like the mint, is making a mint (just had to) off these quarters. I can't see any variance in quality. The few rolls I have purchased for $10.00 at the bank almost always are loaded with minimum of MS66's and quite a few MS67 and occasionally a 68.

hookooekoo

Getting coins from the Bank means that the coins will have been handled more than getting them strait from the US Mint. But I have found that what the US Mint producess has so much varitability as to make that irrelivant. Sometimes I'll get a bag of coins that everyone of them looks like an MS-67, and sometimes I'll get a bag of coins that it's tough to find just one MS-65.

One thing I can say about getting coins directly from the US Mint is that you don't get much of a variety. You seem to get coins that were stamped one right after another. In a bag of 100 quarters, if you find a coin with a die-crack, you're likely to find ten more with that same die crack (this can be cool when you can "see" the crack progressively getting worse).

So perhaps a positive to getting your coins from the bank rather than the US Mint is that they are handled more and perhaps get more of a chance to get different qualitys mixed in one roll.