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Pillar of the Community
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I write for a couple of numismatic magazines. My next assignment covers the 10-year run of Statehood Quarters. Go ahead and tell me what you pursue the series. Here are a few things to consider. 1. Do you collect singles out of circulation, or do you get BU rolls from banks and coin shops? 2. Do you go for evey quarter or just your favorite designs? 3. How about proofs, silver proofs or slabbed high-grade quarters? 4. Which are the five most attractive and ugliest designs? 5. Did you or someone you know get their start in coin collecting through the series? 6. Do you give Statehood Quarters as gifts? Thanks in advance for your replies. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You should have made a poll of this subject. As for me, I collect them because there are no other quarters being made now or is there? I have several Blank Whitman albums where I have been putting those in and all out of circulation, except proofs of course. I suspect in about a thousand years they will have gone up in value by about 0.0000000001%, slight exageration. If I'm around then I'll sell all mine for about $0.26 each.
As for proofs, we are all stuck getting them when and if we order from the Mint.
You have lots of quarter questions and if you search this forum you would see several of these same subjects being discussed previously. So what magazines? Name some of your other articles?
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1. Do you collect singles out of circulation, or do you get BU rolls from banks and coin shops? I get BU rolls. And have 2 circulated books going, one for my son and one for a friend in Australia2. Do you go for evey quarter or just your favorite designs? every quarter3. How about proofs, silver proofs or slabbed high-grade quarters? Yes to proofs and silver proofs. Hell No to slabbed quarters4. Which are the five most attractive and ugliest designs? For me the 5 I like best are Hawaii,Utah,Vermont,New Mexico and Connecticut.
The 5 I dislike are Michigan,Florida,South Carolina,Wyoming and Louisiana5. Did you or someone you know get their start in coin collecting through the series? No and No6. Do you give Statehood Quarters as gifts? No, not usually |
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1. I collect the P and D singles from circulation; proofs come from proof sets. 2. I collect every one. 3. For now, just the silver proofs. I might eventually get the clad since I do have both the silver and clad proofs from 1992~1998. 4. Most attractive: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Mississippi, and Nevada. I decline the offer to pick the ugliest.  5. No one that I know. I know two people that collect them, but they are still not collectors of other coins. As for myself, read my sig!  6. Not yet. Interesting idea.  Edited by jbuck
09/23/2008 7:36 pm
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I just keep one of each P&D from circulation, plus I get the whole clad proof set each year but that isn't because of the Statehood Quarters though. |
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Just Carl:So what magazines? Name some of your other articles? 3stooges I would be more than happy to help out. Except for the fact that you intend to use this info. to make money from (pay check) and you give no profile info about yourself. Seeking:More Info. (Hope I'm not being harsh)  Rainman  |
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1. I get singles from BU rolls at coin shops. Only D-mint are available in circulation here, and often in poor grades, so I get UNC only.
2. I buy them for friends overseas—I don't collect them myself.
3. The lower-mintage silver proofs might interest me someday.
4. "Ugly": Ohio, Wyoming, Texas, California; Best: Alaska, Mississippi, Connecticut, Nevada
5. I'm not sure
6. Yes, to a few overseas collectors.
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09/23/2008 9:08 pm
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6. I get them as gifts Thanks Kurt and arthrene  |
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1. Do you collect singles out of circulation, or do you get BU rolls from banks and coin shops? 1. "D"'s at face value from circulation and local bank rolls (I'm in Denver!). Almost every 2002-up "P" in Denver is in (or from) a BU roll I know several S.Q. collectors in Denver who pool their money to buy and split up "P" BU rolls.... Quote:
2. Do you go for every quarter or just your favorite designs? 2. Every quarter. Quote:
3. How about proofs, silver proofs or slabbed high-grade quarters?
3. Silver proofs, in Mint packaging. Slabs are for Morgans and American Eagles  Quote:
4. Which are the five most attractive and ugliest designs? 4. Pretty: Rhode Island, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma Ugly: Maryland, New Hampshire (the actual landmark was pretty!), Alabama (just like the Susie B., an ugly coin for a great woman!), Florida, Colorado ( should have had Pikes Peak and "America The Beautiful" on it; again, Longs Peak in person is far prettier than on the coin... ) Quote:
5. Did you or someone you know get their start in coin collecting through the series? 5. I know a few people who collect only State Quarters, a lot of times for their descendants and other relatives. Myself, I 'started' with hoarding 90% silver coins and 'wheaties' Quote: 6. Do you give Statehood Quarters as gifts? 6. Maybe 20 years from now I've traded some 'rare in Denver' "P"'s I've found in circulation with some State Quarter collectors for face value, a good deal for them, considering that BU rolls go for small to large premiums over face value. |
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United States
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Why? With mintages running into the hundreds of millions to one billion each State Quarters are an easy and inexpensive series to collect from change. Interest is nationwide so it's easy to find a trading partner for mintmarks you don't normally get. Five new designs each year are a good break from the same old same same old. 1. From circulation 2. Every quarter in P and D 3. I do not buy proofs, silver proofs or high-grade quarters 4. Most attractive Mississippi; least attractive Ohio. Everything else tends toward the unattractive 5. Yes, my daughter 6. No
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1. Do you collect singles out of circulation, or do you get BU rolls from banks and coin shops? From Circulation 2. Do you go for evey quarter or just your favorite designs? 1 from each year 3. How about proofs, silver proofs or slabbed high-grade quarters? No & no & no 4. Which are the five most attractive and ugliest designs? No preference 5. Did you or someone you know get their start in coin collecting through the series? I am completing two sets. One for each of my young daughters. I think they will be good for education purposes. Plus, who knows, maybe it will spark an interest in the hobby. 6. Do you give Statehood Quarters as gifts? Yes |
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1. I aim for UNCs, but not from rolls. 2. All. 3. Don't collect any silver proofs at all. 4. Least: Ohio. Even the Texas quarter is better. Best: North Dakota, Mississipi, California 5. No. 6. I haven't given one, but I have received Edited by DL20K
09/24/2008 06:54 am
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1. Living as I do in Australia, I can safely say I've never found one in circulation. All mine have come from coin shops or fellow collectors, or from visitors returning from the USA.
2. I'm not trying to build up the whole series - at $1.50 to $2 each from the dealers around here, they're too expensive. I take whatever comes my way from visitors pocket change, and buy the occasional one if it has a design that appeals to me.
3. Nope.
4. I haven't actually seen all of the designs, so I'm not really qualified to judge.
5. Not that I'm aware of.
6. I rarely have enough duplicates to give away as gifts.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bedrock of the Community
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Colorado (should have had Pikes Peak and "America
The Beautiful" on it; again, Longs Peak in person is far
prettier than on the coin... )
I wholeheartedly agree Ask anyone to name a famous mountain in the US and the odds of Pikes Peak being mentioned are pretty good. I would say that most people outside of the climbing community and the state of Colorado have never heard of Longs Peak. C'mon- it's the Purple Mountain Majesties- what more do you want If you want to see what Pikes Peak would have looked like on a quarter, check this out- http://www.dc-coin.com/index.asp?Pa...OD&ProdID=56Edited by biokemist6
09/24/2008 10:29 am
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Valued Member
United States
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I manly collected the silver proof set. I didn't do a book but did put back all 48 P&D rolls so far.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i used to collect every Statehood Quarter I saw! Now I collect 1 p and 1 D from each state except the 99's and my own state NC! The rest of them I traded in for something else. I also keep an uncirculated proof clad and a proof silver set |
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Posted 09/23/2008 7:30 pm
