Woohoo! I'm almost done! Ten years of collecting quarters,

[hyphenate]

and I'm down to Hawaii and Alaska.

Last one I got today was New Mexico, and except for the last two states, which likely haven't been released yet, I have made it through the entire United States in quarters currency, over a near ten year period, and lived to tell about it.

When I am done, the "face" value is $12.50, but the effort and intrinsic value is worth a lot more. It's all laid out in one of those gigantic cardboard do-hickeys with the space to push the coins in, and most of the quarters are nice and shiny and in close to mint condition.

Anyone else collect them? Did anyone start, but not follow it through? I'm so thrilled. I have never managed to have the patience to do something like this in the past.

[Seeking Serenity]

1. Congrats! I am sorry now that I didn't start when the new quarters started coming out.

n/t

[AlCzervik]

2. i need 2006 SD, 2007 Montana and for 2008, Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii

i should check my swear jar because there are a shitload of quarters in there and i forget i still needed a few to finsih off 2006/2007.

[hyphenate]

3. When I was looking for a couple just a little over a year ago

I checked eBay. Worked like a charm. The majorly good thing about ebay is that the coin dealers put the brand new quarters into the cardboard and plastic collector packets so they never get circulated. I did that mainly on a couple that were more than a couple of years old, and I was likely not going to have much luck scoring a near mint coin in general circulation.

[gmoney]

4. don't you owe the jar money for saying "shitload" ?

or does typing not count?

[siligut]

5. YES!

All I am missing is Maine! But then comes Guam, America Samoa… do you have the kit?

[hyphenate]

11. Didn't know they were doing it for the territories

That's not fair! I thought I was done! :cry: Ah well, I guess my ten year old "hobby" has been sent back to Iraqthe coin drawer!

[Mojambo]

6. As a retail cashier who has on a number of occasions been requested to dig through my drawer

so that some collector can get their hands on a particular state quarter, I have to say...

I hope you're happy with yourself!

:hi:

[hyphenate]

12. Actually I am!

But I would never have the nerve to ask a cashier go through their drawer. How presumptive of them. I would have made up an excuse if I could. OTOH, I would ask a bank teller to check on the availability of them, unless there was a line out the door.

[pinniped]

7. I like the new 50 state quarters, too.

So much in fact, that I try not to spend them. I've been accumulating these since the 50 state quarter program's inception.

Here's a quarter pyramid I constructed out of 50 state quarters a couple weeks ago. i wasted over an hour doing this.

[MissMillie]

8. my dad's collecting them too

but he has a whole roll of each, so I guess when done, his collection will be worth $500.



But to his great, great, great, granchildren--a full collection of un-opened rolls of state quarters... I can't venture a guess.

[sarge43]

9. Ditto as they say over in Freeperville aka Mordor.

We have ours in a neat folding book thingy.

So, what's your favorite design?

Mine: Rhode Island, Ohio, Vermont. I'm glad NH's Old Man of the Mountain was immortalized before he went down for the count.

[old mark]

10. DUMB QUESTION - Is there a site where I can learn about

current US coin values/collecting? Interested in circulated US coins.

I used to have a little interest in it, but so long ago I am embarrassed to say when.


Thanks.

mark

[LSK]

13. now you should start collecting Euros

Which are much more valuable!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro

[TZ]

14. There's a DC quarter in the making.

But the idiot repukes made them reject the taxation without representation theme they wanted..

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. we started but never did follow through. Too many times of needing change and pilfering the

special ones. The wheat pennies, half-dollars, silver dollars, and other special coins and bills are still intact though.

[littlebit]

16. I thought I was the only geek that did that.

I still need the NM one. I didn't realize it was out already.

[Arugula Latte]

17. My kids have those books. They LOVE them. We are pretty much up-to-date

except, I think for New Mexico.

[last_texas_dem]

18. Congrats! I have been saving at least one of each

but need to catch up on a few of the recent Western states (AZ, OK, and one or two others). I usually just check through my change to see if I have a near mint or thereabouts one, and if I catch them right after they've come out I can usually find one in good shape. Initially, I wanted to try to save one each from the Philly and Denver mints, but the Philly ones seem to take a while before they get to my part of the country; the new state quarters I find are just about always Denvers.

[Blue_Tires]

19. i started back when i was in grad school...

i had all the quarters through 2002 until my mother saw them and spent them all...to make it up, she got me one of those commemorative booklets to keep them all in...

i have most of them, but living in the east has made many of the denver coins harder to get...I'll just take the easy way out and buy the missing quarters