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Valued Member
United States
161 Posts |
What happens to our quarters beginning in 2009? Have the Mint folks announced any plans for the quarter design after the State Quarter series ends?
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Valued Member
United States
367 Posts |
ive been wanting to know the same thing! maybe like they did the nickles?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2764 Posts |
I read from the Coin World Magazine issue Feb 12, 2007 - page 4: + There is a proposed bill in Congress asking Congress to extend the program for one more year "(2009) to commemorate: District of Columbia (Washington DC), Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Island on six circulating quarter dollars." + If the proposed bill doesn't pass then the quarter design will return to before the State Quarter program (ie: and eagle design). Only Congress can authorize any design of coins. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
3730 Posts |
Extending the series for one more year would mean millions more in profit for the Government, however I think there would be a lot of angry collectors who purchaed albums which have coin spaces only through 2008.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
882 Posts |
I would be one of those people who would be angry.
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
1063 Posts |
Why would you be angry, all you need to do is buy the add on slips for the albums. Look at the euro if you want to see how people could be angry. They issued 12 countries with 1 cent to €2 but then also they had the italian mint using some of their quota for san marino and vatican, and the pope died, so those coins with john paul are worth like €1000 a set, not many around and people can´t get them easily. San marino coins are expensive as well, and the french use their quota for monaco coins, of which they are not always issued and their head of principality died, so new more expensive coins.
Then more countries are joining, so more coins that need to be collected. There was slovenia this year and malta and cyprus next year. Then come to commemorative €2, at first it was just a few countries now they are all at it, and they issues the same darn coin with different wording, ie "the treaty of rome" in different languages with the name of the country underneath but they inflated the slovenian coin so most only have 12 not thirteen.
And to add it all off, they have changed the design on the common side from 10 cents to €2, so you have to collect all the same coins (only 5 years after introduction) again, except for the small ones, so you have a collection with it disjointed completely.
But then, isn´t that the joy of collecting coins?
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Valued Member
United States
439 Posts |
I don't see the mint worrying too much if they make anyone angry. You know the album makers would be tickled pink at the prospect of all those State Quarter albums being obsolete. Sounds like the U.S. mint isn't the only one yanking people around from what Augsberger has to say. Kinda ironic that they made so many new collectors with the State Quarter series and now it sounds like more and more are getting jaded by the mint. Wonder how much it will take before the average new collector will just walk away. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Obviously you haven't heard. Since China is making about 75% of everything in our country, including coins and the slabs they are in, the latest proposal is to include China as a state. Then since India also has half their population here and the other half is doing outsource work for our many large companies, they too will be annexed as a state. Now we were planning on annexing Mexico but it has been found there is no one left there except American tourist so Mexico as a state is out. Our next State Quarters will include many of these new states. If this does not happen, then it is the famous county quarters next. One or more quarters with a different county on it for the next 1,000 years. A quarter with each City, village, town was suggested but that would be carrying things tooooo far. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Only Congress can authorize any design of coins.
After twenty five years the Secretary of the Treasury can change the designs at his desecration without the approval of Congress. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1713 Posts |
quote:
Obviously you haven't heard. Since China is making about 75% of everything in our country, including coins and the slabs they are in, the latest proposal is to include China as a state. Then since India also has half their population here and the other half is doing outsource work for our many large companies, they too will be annexed as a state. Now we were planning on annexing Mexico but it has been found there is no one left there except American tourist so Mexico as a state is out. Our next State Quarters will include many of these new states.
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Valued Member
United States
367 Posts |
if we do by chance get mexico as a state I would be on the first plan to europe! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2269 Posts |
I don't see congresses latest proposal becoming a reality. The same proposal was passed by the House last year. Before it could be sent to the senate for a vote, the bill expired.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The bill to extend the State Quarter program by adding the territories has been passed by the House four times so far and has never gotten anywhere in the Senate. As far as I know there has been no official announcement about what the design will be on the quarter. If they are going to change it though they need to be working on the new design now. If they wait too much longer they won't have the time to create and test the new designs, and in that case they will probably revert to the old eagle design. |
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Posted 08/13/2007 01:28 am
