A Roll Set Of Philly State Quarters

The problem was with these coins that they made so many of them, and so many were hoarded by people, that the typical retail price for a role of State Quarters is about $11. Most dealers don't want them, most dealers have a large supply of them. If a dealer does by them as part of a collection they will typically take them to the bank and deposit them. Even buying them at face value it takes them so long to recover the money they now have tied up in them that it's a losing proposition.

Alaska ( Grizzley Bear ) is near the outside edge at 6 o'clock and N. Dakota ( Bisons ) is the third one directly above it.
The wrapped one is Georgia. There are 50 rolls there, all 50 states.


I am well aware these have no real potential and little collector value.
We had literally hundreds of rolls. I could have easily made a heads- tails roll set of all of them and the territories and ATB up to probably 2015. There were bicentennial unc rolls too, which were a little tougher to dump for me but off they went.


They all went to the bank but for a small number of singles and a few rolls of dollars. I did go through the partial roll of D Wisconsin's looking for an extra leaf. I looked for no edge lettering on Presidents, but didn't care about position A or B. lol
There's that slight chance there could have been blank planchets, missing layers, clips and Cuds in those rolls. I doubt there were any off centers or broadstrikes. I did look for bumps and dents in the rolls which could've tip me off of a mis-shaped straggler inside.
As far as little die chips and "is this a doubled die?" coins, I don't get excited over them.
There are a few designs I like. Those with the wild animals I am partial to. But these are a dime a dozen, well ... $3.00 a dozen and that's about it.
I'm probably better off buying $500.00 worth of silver or a nice gold Indian coin.

I think you did exactly right - a quick scan for obvious valuable ones, but not going to the mite on the gnat on the flea chasing low risk oddities.

One other thought... your local coin club might have some YN programs. Hunting varieties is a great intro.

Here in Texas, the TNA show will have a youth auction. The kids get some amount of script (and there are small opportunities to earn a little extra). All the lots are donations. It's usually a blast.

That is a point, really nice high grade 2005 - 2010's may have some potential.

I'm just curious, did you sell them at the bank? That's as good a deal as I get, and never this many. Hunting for state and park errors means that I take many back to them back to the bank's coin counter.

I would have grabbed one or two of each for a few nice sets and hauled the rest out.

Hang out at the car wash and sell them for face value, I bet you can get 27 cents each on weekends.

Or walk through downtown and make change for drivers trying to feed the parking meters.

Or put a few rolls in a sock and keep it under your pillow for night time security.

So many possibilities!

Several car loads went to the bank, golden dollars too but mostly were unc various State Quarters. Thousands of dollars worth, which is long ago spent on stuff like taxes, heating oil, food.

I still have these 50 rolls tho, never looked at them since, however, they do make the safe heavier.
If I need $500.00 for something and don't want to dig around for other money, these will probably go.
I think I'll take a picture of them to the next coin club meeting and see if I can make 25 bucks on them.
You guys that would take the time to look at each one are a lot younger than I am.