It strikes me as incredibly wasteful to have bags of tens of millions of ATB quarters and presidential dollars sitting around collecting dust when there are millions of collectors who would collect those coins if they could receive them in change. This is definitely an area where the Mint should make some changes. In addition, non-cash transactions are becoming more and more common as people use debit and credit cards more often. Those who want to collect the new quarters need to purchase them from the Mint or a dealer. But it is still early days for the ATB quarters, and the main reason far fewer people collect them than did state quarters is that because of the prolonged economic problems since 2008, there has been much less demand for circulating coinage and the coins are rarely received by banks.
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There is little doubt that so far the ATB quarter program has not elicited anywhere near the interest the state quarters program did, and that many collectors probably needed a break from series that run ten years or more. DeLorey goes on to critique both the ATB quarters and the ATB five ounce silver program as perfect examples of the Mint’s blunders. You could not possibly create, while staggering drunk, a debacle any worse than what Congress, in its infinite wisdom, has already given us stone-cold sober with the America the Beautiful (ATB) ‘hockey pucks,’ as its new 5-ounce silver ‘bullion’ quarter dollars are derisively called in numismatic chat rooms and forums.” Now go out and get blind, stinking drunk. An example would be this quotation from Tom DeLorey in an article on the ATB silver bullion program in a recent issue of Coinage: “Suppose you were a member of what some consider to be the greatest deliberative body in the world, and you wanted to design the grandest coinage program this country has ever seen. Some of the coverage of the ATB five ounce silver program struck me as unnecessarily harsh.
This is second article in a two part series.
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