Why Do We Collect Bicentennial Quarters?

Very nice hfjacinto! !

I collect every one I find. Let me rephrase that, hoard every one I find. Why? At some point I'll have more than the market place and thereby set the price.

Just kidding. But I do keep all that I come across and don't really know why.

Maybe a similar question is why don't people hoard the modern design on quarters like everyone did when the Bicentennials were fist issued?

Bicentennials were so very special to the masses, even non-coin collectors, b/c no one had before see a Washington quarter without the eagle design on the back (apply to the half and dollar respectively).

When the State Quarter program came out, you could buy folders for your collection in Walmart, the Dollar Store etc. I remember people actually being anxious to know what design their state would have. People had fun looking for them.

The came the end of the States program, and the mint wanted to continue profiting. So now there is a design existing for every bump in the road found on a major highway.

Special becomes boring when it becomes the norm.

But I like to think Bicentennials are a bit different b/c of what they represent. They also were the first special design many people at that time knew of. They made a huge impact. I personally do not keep since I have the specimens I want in my collection and need to downsize everything.

yokozuna, that's a sweet clip!

i don't collect bicentennial anything, although I will have to acquire those bicentennials for my 7070 at some point.

i was 4th/5th grader during the bicentennial. my mom & grandparents saved every quarter, half & ike that they found. ikes were circulating in '76, it was not uncommon to find them (or spend them) then. I never saved them, but i'd alert a family member when I found one.

dunno bout anyone else, but the bicentennial was really drummed into us. at the time I lived near ft. wayne, indiana, and there was big doings at the fort that year. I recall a 4th grade field trip to the fort in the spring of '76.

back then, mom bought a particular type of white bread (can't recall it's name), each loaf had a collectible bicentennial card (each card featured a 1776 person or event; there were maybe dozens of them in the whole set, which I really tried to put together) inside the plastic wrap... not sealed up by itself inside the bag, just a card stuck to the bottom of the loaf. those were the days.

anyway, I think maybe the attraction to the bicentennial quarters might be because the Washington quarter had the same obv & rev designs since 1932. those new (at the time) bicentennial reverses were (and apparently still are) very cool to some. to be honest, I like the Washington quarter bicentennial reverse much more than I like the statehood stuff, ATB, etc.

That's a beautiful clip Yokozuna! !


I'll tell all you Bicentennial quarter collectors one thing right now... You all stop what you're doing and go check your D's for DDO!

I used to save those too. Then I asked others if they wanted them and no one did so to the bank they went.

I had to collect them as they are part of the 7070, buy why not get a nice grade and silver if you have to get them?