State Quarters? Does Anyone Bother With These Anymore?

I search nickels for a few reasons:

The coins are durable, and you can still easily obtain 1938+ nickels. Due to silver getting pulled, the dimes and quarters are limited to 1965+.
Nickels are pretty much the only coin where you can still routinely pluck silver from circulation. I average a War Nickel per $30-40 FV searched.
There is a profusion of minor DDRs for modern nickels. They tend to be much larger than for other denominations, and are easy to search systematically and fast.
Cents smell and are often dirty. The zinc coins are frequently damaged. Dimes are too tiny to search comfortably. I don't search quarters because the crazy number of designs makes it a headache to search for errors and minor varieties.

Okay, so let's say you find a War Nickel every 15-20 rolls. That would be close to 3 for every box searched. At, say $1.95/nickel, you're looking at finding close to $6 in silver in every box.

With quarters, I seem to find a "W" in almost every box. While not silv er, W's still sell for $8 each in circulated condition. $10-12 in really good condition.

If I was just looking for "W's" I could probably search a box and re-roll the quarters in less than 2 hours.

How long does it take you to search and re-roll a box of nickels?

I find that dimes and pennies are just too darn small to re-roll, and Wells Fargo won't take them back unless they're rolled. Nickels are kind of the same.

I do agree that War Nickels are somewhat more common, and easier to find. Heck, I got one back in change last week from the grocery store although it was the first I've seen in change in a very long time.

I asked for a box of nickels at the bank a couple of weeks ago hoping it would be 2024's. It ended up being new 2023's and I ended up returning them.

Normally just 1 "W" per box with 4-5 territorial, maybe 1 die crack and a dozen bicentennial. Why I keep the bicentennial I don't know.

My enjoyment for coin collecting and coin roll hunting has taken over as a bit more of a passionate hobby. For many, many years, I was an avid aquarium hobbyist and planted tank enthusiast. However, that kind of basically completely fizzled and burnt out for me in the past six months. I got back into coins again last year after about a ten year break from coin collecting.

As my enjoyment in the aquarium hobby waned, the coin collecting enjoyment increased. I started out with simple quarter sets, much like the State Quarters from circulation. That turned into Jefferson nickels, which led to me completing my first real set of coins, the Jefferson nickels from 1938-2005.

Been in love ever since. I'm now working on multiple different easy/intermediate sets of coins, including another Jefferson nickel set from circulation and Lincoln cents from 1909-2009.

Got these over the weekend... Beautiful coins. Now just waiting for the entire set of State Quarter proofs to come.





Love the detail on these. These are definitely a lot more exciting IMO than the standard circulating coins.

Or, could it be that maybe there are more errors and varieties with Cents, Nickels, and Dimes....

The six proof coins that are in the holder (reverse side). The District of Columbia coin, that design appears to be out of place next to the others.
A monument of a government structure would have been preferred; it is the capital of the US for Pete's sake...