I love that I have never heard of most of these women. There is always room to learn something new and this program is doing an I credible job of that!

However many rolls do find their way back to the Mint, Tom, you can almost be guaranteed they will be coming back from the larger, i.e. reselling/flipping customers and not from individual collectors.

I’m curious to see how many rolls will get ‘returned’

My guess, Tom, for the eventual, i.e. longer-term scenario would be an initial all-around enthusiasm for the 3 Roll Sets while the premiums remain high followed by a gradual dimming of interest in the entire enterprise as the sales successes of Sets with the admittedly somewhat usurious surcharges begin to wane.

at this point, it is a moot point on the s quarters, they are probably sold out the rest of the year, though the following may happen. people who ordered 3 rolls in the hopes of making the big bucks on ebay may find the premium isn’t there and will then reduce or cancel their subscription, making some rolls available. time will tell.

Thanks for the thorough and clear explanation, Tom; your time and effort is very much appreciated!
As unfortunately more than just a footnote here, while 5000 additional sets may seem like a goodly extra supply of this particular release of American Women Quarters PDS Rolls in regard to their projected distribution among the individual collector population, there is however still a possible monkey wrench lurking in the works, as follows.
With a Household Order Limit of 3 those 5000 additional 3 Roll Sets can conceivably be condensed into orders for all of 1666 customers, and that number of additionally available purchases constitutes but a drop in the bucket for the major players who have the ability to deploy legions of contract buyers both for Subscriptions and on Release Days.

3 roll sets(but if you ignore P/D rolls included in the 3 roll set), that is still 5000 more S rolls.
or put another way, at 40 coins per roll, in 2022 305,600 s quarters were minted in total. in 2023 it has been increased to 505,600 in total. of course due to returns the final totals were slightly less
This new total is actually more than the planned 2023 innovation dollar for P at 500,000 and D at only 454,000. for some reason the Mint’s production is less for D than P for the dollars. (Assuming of course I can still multiply!) Those totals are per each individual release based on ‘limits’, not for the entire year.

Tom, is that 5000 more rolls this year or 5000 more 3 roll sets?

And E-Bay presale for 3 roll Bessie Coleman set minimum around $100 up to well over $200, despite the fact there will be 5000 more rolls available this year. Guess it will be interesting to see it all plays out. I’m guessing the 2022 rolls will be going for premium prices now.

You certainly have a very strong second from me in this regard, Antonio, both because I am an enthusiast in general regarding anything having to with human flight, and more specifically in Earhart’s case due to how very curious and mystifying I have always found her abrupt disappearance to have been.