100th W Quarter

[baddbluff]

Found my 100th Westy last night.

For the most part, it’s been a slow but steady grind of about 1 W per box on average. A lot of skunk boxes, a few good boxes and some with 2 or 3. I had a few nice scores ... a nice box of solid American Memorials that yielded 8 the day before yesterday. I had another one a month or so ago that yielded about 9 American Memorials, and a solid San Antonio box that gave up 12 or so the same day as the 9er.

My totals so far...

Lowells: 27
American Memorials: 50
War in the Pacific: 2
San Antonio Missions: 21
River of No Return: 0

Kinda surprised I haven’t seen more “Wars”. Looking at PCGS’s population report, they’ve graded more Wars than all the other West Point types except the Lowells. I guess they didn’t ship many to Vegas.

Haven’t been too impressed with the quality of the W coins so far. Of the 100 I’ve found I only kept one so far that I really liked the look of. It’s an American Memorial that I think would probably grade 66+. The rest I’ve seen are probably in the 63-65 range, and a few that already have some friction & would come back AU.

Has anyone else been finding many?
Good luck everyone & happy hunting!
BB

 

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[smokeythecat]

I found maybe 20 all told. I have gone through 22K in quarters. My searching has been very sporadic. I have not been able to get full boxes of 2019's here. The first one was in change at the local convenience store.

 

[FormerTeller]

Out of all those boxes, did you find any silver?

 

[port ewen ace]

9-WIP & 19-RONT dubyah's , only ONE SATx--- a stinkin' P

 

[jrf30]

$39,000 in quarters searched so far. Boxes from Wells, Chase and BoA. All on trips while driving so no real time wasted, and it keeps me from getting bored. Otherwise, I would have given up by now.

$39,000 and ZERO total W's found. one silver. 1964D.

So congrats on your finds. That's where all the W's from D are going. To Vegas. Not Phoenix.

 

[Rosco53]

Congrats, those are GREAT numbers! Jealous, I haven't even found 1 War in the Pacific quarter yet, let alone a W. $8,500 and no W's yet, but pulled figure the 6 silvers makes up for it.

 

[baddbluff]

Out of all those boxes, did you find any silver?

11 total silver quarters this year.
I’m not sure how many boxes I searched but probably 100ish.

 

[baddbluff]

I found about 650-700 bicentennial quarters too. They are a little harder to unload - almost like trying to sell copper pennies.

 

[A2coins]

Wow Ive found zero I just wanted 1 of each for the life of me cant find any I have 100 of the p mint mark ones.rrrrrhhh Well good job on those I know youve put the work in.. Theres a couple out there for me somewhere lol Well done

 

[enamel7]

I found about 650-700 bicentennial quarters too. They are a little harder to unload - almost like trying to sell copper pennies.

That's because they were made for two years.

 

[FormerTeller]

11 total silver quarters this year.
I’m not sure how many boxes I searched but probably 100ish.

1 silver per 10 boxes sounds about right for quarters, unfortunately.

 

[FormerTeller]

I found about 650-700 bicentennial quarters too. They are a little harder to unload - almost like trying to sell copper pennies.

You sell bicentennial quarters How? What kind of premium do you get for them?

 

[port ewen ace]

You sell bicentennial quarters How? What kind of premium do you get for them?

they suck..... almost as much as the hundreds in every box of halves

 

[Sleepy Holow]

For me, 1 War found with a 2019 quarter volume of $643.50

Thanks for sharing your stats and thoughts on the series thus far. Congratulations on the 100 W milestone!

 

[baddbluff]

they suck..... almost as much as the hundreds in every box of halves

‘76 quarters are a little tougher than ‘76 halves (super common). Seems like every other half in a box is a bicent.