Comments on: Circulating Quality 2012-S America the Beautiful Quarters for Collectors

By: Big Bill

Big Bill — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:47:22 +0000

Reminds me of the days that everyone saved rolls of 1950D BU nickles. It is easy to buy a BU but try to find one in a circulated grade. The same will apply to the 2012S Quarter with there being no shortage of uncirculated coins for collectors in the future.

By: Rakkasan187

Rakkasan187 — Mon, 28 May 2012 21:24:25 +0000

My initial reaction to the new “S” is the obsoleting of all existing albums. That’s a lot of expense AND work and for that reason alone I wish it had been planned and executed with some foresight way back when. Now, as an aisde, I bought one set of the 2010 5 oz and will sit on that until the series ends out and prices settle in.

By: Vachon

Vachon — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:13:22 +0000

I actually wouldn’t mind this offering so much if the Mint would A) make these business strike S-mint coins for all denominations and in numbers to satisfy demand and B) sell them for face-value plus actual postage costs to ship it to your door. Then leave it up to the collector to either hoard or spend them.

By: Bubba Gamer

Bubba Gamer — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:11:44 +0000

People sure do like to complain. If you don’t like the product, don’t buy it. Then down the road, you can pay the few of us a lot more money and wish you would have bought it when it first came out. US mint is more traditional than Canada Mint. They went out on a limb and created the 5 oz coins and they started out really popular and were selling out fairly quickly and now they sell fairly slowly. Wow Canada Mint has colored glow in the dark coins with dinosaurs! They are cupronickel quarters and only $29.95. A 1/2 oz silver Maple Leaf Forever coin is $34.95. People think those prices are cheap? A
S mint circulating quarter is historical. A glow in the dark coin is a fad.

By: lopital

lopital — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:45:18 +0000

Percentage-wise, the mint makes most of its profits from clad coins. For example, the premium for a 3 quarter set is $9.95/$0.75*100 = 1326%. Pretty nice profit… This assumes it costs $0.25 to make a quarter; I don’t know how much they pay for packaging. Even if more expensive, they can only charge a fraction for precious metal coins, and they don’t sell as many. So, it does makes sense for them to reduce the number of high price products, but bombard us with clad ones.

What’s next, messing with the machines so that they create “error coins” for collectors?

By: RonnieBGood

RonnieBGood — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:37:21 +0000

My apoligies. In my above post their will be a total twelve ways to purchase the ATB Quarter with the addition of the “S” mint Quarters for Collectors.

By: RonnieBGood

RonnieBGood — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:32:53 +0000

Oh yes, Lets not forget the 5 Ounce Quarters for a grand total of twelve ways to purchase an “America the Beautiful Quarter”!!

By: RonnieBGood

RonnieBGood — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:30:07 +0000

Where is the Mint getting their Feedback from? Lets look at the “10” ways you can currently Purchase the “America the Beautiful Quarter Series”.
Here are numbered examples for 2011 & 2012 Quarters:
* Uncirculated 5 Coin Set (U12)
* Uncirculated Set (N94) Includes 5 P & 5 D quarters
* Mint Full Proof Set (P14)
* Clad Quarter Proof Set (Q5C)
* Silver Quarter Proof Set (SV7)
* Circulating Coin Set (N91) Includes 5 P & 5 D
* Uncirculated Coin Set (N93) Includes 5 P & 5 D
* Individual Two Roll Sets (R75) Includes 40 P & 40 D
* Individual 100 Quarter Bags (QY6) for D & (QY1) for P
* Individual 3 Coin Sets Including an Unc. P, Unc. D & “S” (N82)

Do we really want or need another Quarter in this series??

By: Dan Callaway

Dan Callaway — Thu, 24 May 2012 02:32:11 +0000

Geez…if they can make a change like that in the middle of a series, you’d think they would put Teddy Roosevelt on the obverse. Make a change that means something, US Mint!

By: FutureUser

FutureUser — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:50:04 +0000

So, how about releasing more of those stored-up dollar coins into circulation? I’m not seeing many of them, just a few types (early Presidents). I thought they were going to flood the market with them, but I guess not.