Bicentennial Quarter dump?

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I am going through a bag off a coin counter, I have never seen so may bicentennial quarters. I would estimate 1 out of every 4 is a bicentennial! I only really notice it because my son wants me to save some for him and usually I find only a few, but today it seems to be about 25%, every handful of say 50 coins has 10-15 bi's

 

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[smokeythecat]

With the great American coin hunt I have seen hundreds upon hundreds of nearly uncirculated bicentennial quarters in boxes this year.

 

[SnowDigger]

Wow! You hit the jackpot for them! Congrats!

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

yeah and all this looking for ONE "W" so far, luckily there isn't a space in my Dansco for them

 

[A2coins]

Coincedance I bought some half dollar rolls and found a whole lot of em.......

 

[port ewen ace]

I've grown to hate them---- like the '06 & newer Jeffs AND-- shield cents

 

[baddbluff]

yeah and all this looking for ONE "W" so far, luckily there isn't a space in my Dansco for them

What part of the country are you searching, if you don’t mind me asking?
They obviously didn’t distribute them very well - cuz I find a lot.
Big cities must be where they are all going.

 

[Megalodon]

I am going through a bag off a coin counter, I have never seen so may bicentennial quarters. I would estimate 1 out of every 4 is a bicentennial! I only really notice it because my son wants me to save some for him and usually I find only a few, but today it seems to be about 25%, every handful of say 50 coins has 10-15 bi's

I was talking to a guy (who has a vending machine business) dumping quarters at a coinstar and the machine was rejecting bicentennial quarters. I suggested that it might be related to the high relief of the reverse. So its possible the quarters you find in bags could have been rejected from coinstars - at least those set to reject high relief coins, and then dumped into non-coinstar machines that use bags.

 

[Megalodon]

yeah and all this looking for ONE "W" so far, luckily there isn't a space in my Dansco for them

We start off saying we just want to find one W but there are five designs, so after that first one, there are still four more designs to go. So far, I have three of the five designs among my five W quarters.