State Quarters Collection Test.

You could sort of cheat doing that. What I mean is start asking friends, neighbors and relatives for any Quarters they have been saving. So many people started to save those when they first came out and now are starting to dump them. I too had a large can of the extra ones I didn't need for Albums so recently took to a bank. Very possible you could get an entire set by asking.

With CRH I got all the State Quarters in P & D, I'm missing 3 Territories and 10 of the 20 P mintmark ATB that have come out so far. Being in Montana means I get the D mint marks almost on the day of release. But P mintmarks take forever to get to me.

The last P mint mark I needed from the first 25 states was Pennsylvania, not many of those made it out of the state.

For me, they are about as rare as the ATB Quarters. To give you an idea, went through probably about $300 worth of quarters over the weekend and I found only 1 American Samoa and 1 Virgin Islands in the bunch. It does make sense, as 2009 was a low mintage year across most coin denominations.
As a side note, I found only 3-4 ATB Quarters. Luckily one was the Nevada ATB, which I needed. I now lack only a Hawaii Volcanoes quarter.
The State Quarters, however, are a different story. It felt like they were 40-45 pct of the the $300 batch.

Actually it's pretty easy - the coins that I found difficult to find were the territorial ones from 2009. I've put together a couple of circulated sets and am thinking of starting another.

The one that I have a real hard time in putting together a circulated set is the ATB Quarters. There are so many holes in my ATB circulated set that I would never let them go for a swim.

Man I took my bag of my extra Denver State Quarters to the bank today and I know I had at least two Oklahoma in the bag. I'm missing about half the Philly coins.

I've been setting these aside since day 1 and still don't have all of them yet. All of those I have are chUnc with one or two chAU's.

If you think these are tough try finding the older coins in nice condition. Some are a little tough in any condition.

Only P mint I'm missing is IL, Okie.
D mint I am missing is NC, MO, WI, AK, KS, AR, TX and WA.
I get P mint coins pretty regularly, in fact just got a UNC P mint NV today and sat it aside.
Let me know if you want to help each other fill the slots.

I just got one roll of quarters the other day, and I still think trying to do pocket change alone will be more frustrating then rewarding, a roll every once in a while is the way to go.

Here is what I came up with

NV, WY, AZ, SC, NM, ID, OK, RI, NDx2, SD, WV, VA, KY, all D mint, a Puerto Rico P (decent shape and a hole filler), and the Nevada was a nice upgrade.

Only 6 ATB (which is weird I get tons of them usually) a Chickasaw P and from D - Olympic x2, Glacier, El Yunque, and of course a Volcano, just imagine how nasty it will look after a few years in pockets scratching against keys, it seems they are making the ATB to self-destruct and increase value of any that have been saved in AU- MS, the Rushmore is nice and gleaming but the face and nose is going to be scratched easily, they are all 'fragile'.

Only two P's that is my usual ratio thou. The rest were older, I get a good mix of P & D on them. I think I got a few 1976's too, I spend them just to see the looks. So about half of them could be hole fillers if you are starting out.

Reviewing this thread I was reminded of the owl on the tootsie roll pop commercials, One, Two, Three... CRUNCH!
1. from pocket change only,
2. pocket change accumulated over the past 10 years,
3. went through probably about $300 worth of quarters over the weekend ... CRUNCH!