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The Declaration of Independence 250,000 mintage quarter worth?
BuffaloIronTail
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If you're lucky enough to snag one, how much would it be worth?
I'm just trying to gauge the market on this.
Pete
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A quarter
Whatever the amount, NGC put a $2500 bounty on the first one that they get to grade.
WAG <$200 for 65/66, declining somewhat after that. I’m hoping. Probably will need one for type.
4 figures in 65-66 ms
Won't they mostly all be MS65'ish/MS66?
these are being released in the wild
Yes, even so, most of the brand-new coins I see in the wild are shinny and bright and appear MS65'ish.
If four figures I’ll pass and omit it from my type set. May clear out the 21st century set anyway. Lots of “for circulation” coins that don’t really circulate, are primarily collector coins; I.e. not made for commerce.
i could be wrong.
and even if right, the prices will come down once more are found. and the au coins will likely be cheap
The first few could conceivably sell for four figures with the right label, but these are going to be too common except as top pops to hold this level. The supply will increase rapidly at anything close to it.
The coin isn't actually scarce and won't experience high enough attrition. At four figures, we're talking prices similar to quite nice though relatively common Liberty Seated quarters.
It just isn't interesting enough where the novelty won't wear off.
If they do start at anything near four figures it will create a frenzy guaranteeing a large number ultimately available and a rapid decline in price.
First Ebay seller to list one. Ridiculous the seller can guarantee they will find 2 of these and ship by mid to late August.
Asking $5500. BUYER BEWARE!!!
ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
IMHO the mint should have dropped a few in the mint bag's and rolls..... possibly in the mint set's as well. That's just my opinion
Sounds like a reportable thig
Really ?
Disagree. The point is to get the general public looking for them.
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Agree. This is one of the surprises that Director Hollis meant would be coming in some of his early interviews. If the intention of this particular surprise was to get people who don’t know that there were new 2026 coins to be talking about it, it has succeeded. My local bank teller friends are getting inundated with questions now. Prior to a few weeks ago, even THEY were not aware that designs had changed.
These don’t belong in bags or sets. They’re doing what they were intended to do.
Hmmmm..... Bank tellers didn't know of a design change 6 months into the year but all the public does ?
REALLY ? I guess that explains how many of these coins are in circulation....
You bet. Many of us have found bank tellers that don’t know there’s new issues this year. All the public does not know, either. This new privy marked quarter is good evidence of that. Look how many are now discovering there’s something new out there since this was a national news story in all the major markets.
My bank tellers cannot count change well, so I don't think that they will be aware of coin designs.
Fortunately, they have the paper money counter handy for paper cash transactions, I always tell them not to bother with a manual count, just use the machine again.
I have taken some of the new stuff in to show them and they are genuinely surprised by them, as they don’t see them. Now granted, the 50% of me that’s a cynic says that’s due to management selling them on EBay or delving them out to preferred customers to do the same, but the other half of me believes they just do not get them in. When they order rolls for my business friends who deal in cash, it’s almost always older coinage.
I do not think I need one for my type set (all PCGS AU50 or better). I have one example for the State quarters, Presidential dollars, etc. So I have a Mayflower Compact quarter (MS67) and that should be enough.
Offered my employees 100$ for the first to find me one
Can’t disagree. However, each of the quarters has a unique obverse as well as reverse, unlike the other quarter series. I too have a single example representing the state series, etc. since they have a common obverse. (That and the fact that I don’t want a boatload of coins in my type set.) I’m also considering ending my type sets with the 20th century types, rather than just accumulating modern coins that will always be worth less than I paid for them - all my stuff is slabbed.
I think some people are expecting too much of banks/tellers. Banks aren't coin shops and tellers aren't coin dealers. Their job isn't to make available the specific coins that collectors want, but don't want to pay over face value for.
Ebay update! "Unsearched" Rolls are now available for $80-$100 depending on the seller. Feel lucky?
NOPE .....
Me either....hard pass for me. Hoping to get some boxes from the banks like I did for the W quarters hunt.
The odds for finding one of these quarters are Willy Wonka golden tickets odds! Saving my cash for buying one off of a lucky Charlie...
Does your typeset include both years for the Jefferson Nickel Westward Journey series since the obverses are different?
They also rarely open rolls and mostly distribute already rolled coins to merchants. And, honestly, they see about 5% the volume of people the saw in 1976.
On the rare occasion that I pop into a branch, there is never a line, even on Saturday, and never more than 1 or 2 tellers. Sometimes only one who is doing the drive up as well. I remember going with my parents as a kid in the 70 and there was ALWAYS a line, with velvet ropes and often b half a dozen tellers.
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Yes.
I'll be looking for these. I am guessing that like the W quarters, interest will be high, and I think that the prices could get to five figures, at least initially for 65 and above.
I think that several hundred thousand quarters are my next task to go through.
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What’s a “bank teller”? Is it that machine outside the grocery store?