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My thoughts on State Quarters Written in June 1999 Most of the first  few (1-5) quarters will be kept by the first person to see them. If the mint mints the coins based on demand, these will be the lowest mintage. By the end of the first year most people will be aware of and looking for them. Getting what they can from change and buying them from the bank. There will be a frenzy to obtain the earlier coins that they missed which will drive prices up. This should last 4-8 months then prices will begin to fall as people will become  accustom to finding them and the supplies are more readily available. Also the profits from special promotions and tellemarkerters will fall off and these ads will go away. By the end of the second year, maybe a little longer prices should have stabilized. But production will not fall off because of  people getting “on the band wagon” and saving them in bulk hoping for big profits. By year 5-6 there will be very little interest, hoards will be spent at face value because of no market for them, production will fall off maybe to lower levels then the first few. (this is the time to start saving them again). Years 8-10 production will have stabilized. Once the program is over and they revert to a new design the interest in the state quarters will again pick up and last for 1-2 years. Prices will again rise, mostly for the middle year coins with low production. At this point the prices will fall and stabilize.     RETURN TO THE ARTICLES INDEX PAGE

 
 
 
 

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