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Those who say that quarters are bad to search are silver hunters
Well it isn't my fault they made quarters prior to 1965.
The problem with "modern" coins like
ATB and Westward Journey, is they are like baseball cards. They are making something to try to get people to collect them during a time when they are complaining about the lack of use of coins. Seems counter productive to me. The only thing it is really doing is making money for those people that make albums and folders to store special "sets" in. How much does it cost for each design to be made? as we making anything off of this constant change other than cashiers having no idea what is real and what isn't so they don't even check coins anymore. If it looks like a quarter they count it as a quarter. Who has time to memorize 114 designs for a
Washington quarter since 1932?
I honestly think the modern coins being redesigned is a waste of taxpayers money. But I also feel this with many other things in the planned obsolescence department where new things are created for the sole purpose of keeping some designer employed. I know coins aren't planned to break down after 15 years like a washine machine, but there really is no need to waste time on writing a law to make 5 new designs per year. The
State Quarters was a novel idea, and the novelty wore off in 2009. Now they are really just a burden to have to deal with in order to have a "years" set.
Might have been a good idea when people bought those collectors spoons when they traveled by car to different states, but seeing as less people do that now, too little too late.
So back to baseball cards, and other modern cards that people collect, the modern coins create fake rarity in order to drive the supply down.
907,000,000 1998-D quarters were made.
272,400,000 Mount Rushmore quarters were made.
804,400,000 D mint quarters were made in 2013
sure some
State Quarters years made more pe year than the 1998 in total for both mints, but why? when will it end?
the mint may be making money off collectors of mint sets and other oddities sold from the mint, but it burdens everyone else that has to deal with them. is it decreasing the deficit or national debt by having so many different coins in production by selling mint sets?
i just don't see the point and disgusted taxpayers dollars are being spent to make all these designs and to pay for senators and congressman to waste time making laws for them that could be better spent on fixing real problems.
just a car salesman gimmick to try to get people to buy more stuff and thus why so many pres $ sit unused. at least with those they could force them to be used by getting rid of the dollar bill, but nope!....
Posted 07/14/2014 9:19 pm
for silver there are better rolls!
