I Need Help. Collecting All Of The State Quarters.

Are you interested in having coins from each mint, or just one coin per year? Must they be pristine/mint fresh, or can they be lightly circulated? Suggest checking ebay for State Quarter lots/collections.

I am currently just collecting them from change, and trying to get the full set, and also trying not to buy them, but I just want to be able to brag to my friends that I have the full collection of State Quarters. I just need to know the face value right now. Thanks!

These can be a fun set to find and put together.

But if you want brutal honesty:
State Quarters are worth .25 each. There was no shortage of each issue made. They are not precious metal and so do not keep value. In fact many, b/c of devaluation of money since the original issues, are actually worth less (buying power) than when issued. In fact it is doubtful these quarters will ever be worth anything since so many were made and so many people made collections of them. There is no shortage of complete sets.

You will also find gold or platinum plated examples that people were suckered into buying as sets (like HSN) and, when the victims found they wasted their money (b/c the plating metals are so thin they add no value), dumped them at the bank.

An exception to the above is when you see the ones people have sent in for being slabbed and have been fortunate enough for the companies to decide to put a perfect grade on them. But remember when you see selling prices, to have NGC or PCGS slab a coin typically costs 150.00-200.00 to get slabbed.

The silver issues included in the mint's silver proof sets are worth more money b/c of them being silver. They will not lose their value over time. Although not impossible, it is very unusual to find one of these in circulation.

It does depend on what you mean by "complete".

One from each state? That would be 50 of them. Include DC and the Territories? That would be 56 in total.

Each coin type was struck for circulation with two different mintmarks: P and D. That would be 112.

Finally, I'm sure you're already aware that two different " State Quarter series" have been issued: the original State Quarters (1999-2009), and the "America the Beautiful" national parks quarters (2010-2021), which followed a similar "five coins per year, one-from-each-state" theme. One of each state and territory from each mintmark from both series would be 224 coins.

There are proof coins of various kinds across the series, but we're assuming you're only interested in the coins actually issued for circulation.

There are various famous varieties across the series too, but we're assuming those are of minimal interest as well.

Good luck