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If I were to sell my collection of AU/BU State Quarters, what could I expect for a price? Like selling on this site or craigslist? Thanks! |
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hopefully someone will give you an estimate. Have you checked past craigslist and ebay prices? |
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Hate to say it but.... probably face value....
Edited by amida17
04/29/2012 01:08 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I just sold a set on craigslist. Had it listed for over a week. Finally sold the 100 quarter p and d set for $30, when face value was $25...
I actually bought a completely uncirculated set from a guy online for $35, so I sold my old set for $30. Yeah these puppies don't go for much.
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Pillar of the Community
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Actually a complelte State Quarter set in just the "P" and "D" mintmarks consists of 110 quarters (this includes all the territories) and face value of this set is $27.50. So if you sold it for $30 then after ebay fees I believe that you netted less than face value. So this doesn't bode well for my set in a similiar condition. However, it's the thrill of the hunt for me because I still need 5 quarters to complete it. The coins I'm missing are all from Denver and I'm missing four of the territories plus one other coin. I guess that I won't get rich on this set either. I wonder what my other completed statehood set of uncirculated "P", "D", "S uncirculated", and "S Silver" would fetch. I'm almost finished with another set of Statehood Quarters "S" uncirculated and silver set. |
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With ebays fees for something like that you would almost certainly do better selling it offline or to a coin shop.
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Thanks guys, that answers my question. I'll put together a set and keep it for my kids, then sadly probably throw back all of the AU/BU extras I have :S
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Wrestling, such a shame re the AU/BU. When we were in the US in August last year (back again this year AND going to the Philly show - see you there guys)we spent many hours going to the banks to try and complete our son's State Quarters set. All of the coins were circulated and some pretty crappy, and you have AU/BU going begging! Not right somehow! |
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Quote:Actually a complelte State Quarter set in just the "P" and "D" mintmarks consists of 110 quarters (this includes all the territories) and face value of this set is $27.50. So if you sold it for $30 then after ebay fees I believe that you netted less than face value. I don't count the territories as State Quarters because they arent states. and my dansco is State Quarters from 1999 to 2008. I have a separate dansco for the territories. And... if you include territories then there would be 112, not 110, which would be $28. Dont forget there were 6 territories, not 5. |
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murrellington when I responded last night I was looking at the Whitman album that I have my circulated State Quarters residing in. I just realized that I had overlooked the Northern Mariana Islands coin from both the Philadelphia and Denver mints. The slot for this coin was hiding in plain sight.  I went back to check my 2009 proof sets to realize my mistake. So the end result is that I have to find 7 coins rather than 5. A big difference.  Thanks |
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wrestling_135 I just looked at the ad that is shown right below your original posting. It's offering a complete set of P & D coins (112) for sale including a Dansco album for 4 times the amount that they're buying them for off of ebay. So maybe there is hope for our state collection sets yet. Or possibily more precisely in the future. Hopefully your kids will also appreciate them also. You could put together comparible sets for all your kids. If you do it now, it will be easier than later. |
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I bought the State Quarters set from Franklin Mint. I regret it. To me, it looks like they went to a bank and got one of each state's quarters, put it in a small plastic tube and sent it on. I already had purchased the Presidential dollar set, which came in a nice wooden case and the coins were in a plastic capsule that is (supposedly) sealed with a treasurer's mark, and while I knew that the quarter set would not be that fancy, I was just let down at what I got. I will NEVER buy from FM again. |
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Quote: don't count the territories as State Quarters because they aren't states ......... I have a separate dansco for the territories  ...... This is what I did as well. Looks great with Dansco in BU-P&D with Proofs and Silver Proofs ! The P&D only BU State Qtrs.......... yeah, I did a circulation set for these that I just stuck in a folder. Got em' as nice conditioned as I could, but learned that I was never going to expect much beyond face for them....  Same with those who collecte State Quarter " ROLLS". No premium here either, just face value. (with a couple states there might be a possible exception or two though, although very slight) And yeah....I'd stay away from the Franklin Mint for SURE ! .........  Just like the HSN guys on t.v. ,.....they peddle overpriced crap........... let me re-phrase that ...... WAYYYYYY OVERPRICED STUFF to folks. Very similarly to the snake oil salesmen in the Old West days. Typically (or laughably), no one could EVER get what "they" paid for these items "from" them in the open market. Not in a thousand years !Just a rip-off scam artist scenario to make a bundle of money off of the under-educated public, concerning these coins. And it isn't illegal, not by a long-shot, so it goes on and on through the years and decades. It's just ....... BUYER BEWARE !Edited by eaglefoot
04/30/2012 09:48 am
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My solution was to get a Dansco #7146 (one per state/territory) and fill it with silver proofs. Or it will be, once I get the album and the silver proof sets I'm missing. It also has two blank holes, which I will fill with a silver bicentennial and a silver pre-1965 proof so I have a complete set of Washington quarter reverses in silver. |
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I paid around $27.00 for my set of State Quarters in BU condition. I took them out of the crappy presentation case they sent and purchased the Dansco State Quarter album with the slots for the proofs and the silver proofs. Several hundred dollars later it is complete. Already started just the silver coins for the state parks and purchased the Dansco album to put them in. They have only released three sets so far and I just do not have the gumption yet to start breaking the sets apart and putting them in the album. :) |
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