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Valued Member
Canada
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Hi, I've decided to start a Quarter collection. When you want to put a Set together, do you just collect all the quarters from every year? Or do you just collect certain important dates? I found this website with Canadian Quarters. https://www.jandm.com/script/getite...CID=3&PID=98 br / I was just thinking of collecting all of these Quarters on this site because they all have nice art work and historically important dates. Right now I'm individually sorting regular Quarters and dating them... but it seems pointless, they all look the same. In order to complete a "Set", do I need those regular quarters that don't have anything special about them? I guess my real question is. What quarters do I need in order to complete a Set? I would like to complete a Set from Elizabeth II era, in order to complete this, do I need every single date? Thanks for any info you have on this subject. James. |
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Valued Member
United States
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That's for you to decide. A date set for Her Royal Highness Elizabeth II (1953 ~ date) is do-able on a budget if most come from circulation. Unless you are extremely lucky in your roll searches you'll have to buy or trade for the silver coins 1953 to 1968. Using the jandm.com as a guide you can avoid the costly varieties, Proof Like issues and errors and still have a complete set
In my own case I have coins only for the various KM #'s, not every date from 1953.
Edited by FreezerBurn
12/19/2008 5:28 pm
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Valued Member
 Canada
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I think I'm going to shoot for the whole set.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
965 Posts |
Keep all 1991's you find. (And send one to me.  ) |
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United States
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I think I'm going to shoot for the whole set.
Good! I think there's slightly more than 100 coins total with 40 or so being commemoratives. Enough variety to keep the caribou from being tedious. |
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Canada
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 Hello James, nice to see you on board. Many new collectors are confused about what denomination to collect, what Monarchs to collect, how much to spend per coin, do I buy graded (slabbed) or raw (ungraded) which theme's to collect, etc. The possibilities are endless and are limited to the imagination. However, one basic rule that applies to all advanced and serious collectors, which someday YOU will become is: start with the KEY dates first and purchase the (NEAREST) highest grade you "can't" afford! I had such a hard time to figure out what the heck I wanted to collect out of the Canadian coinage, when I first started I just collected anything and everything. I got severely upset when the Royal Canadian Mint started putting out unbelievable loads of junky looking coins, stuff that you would have swear came from a full meal deal at your local McDonald's restaurant. This is why as the years went by and my collecting experience and knowledge grew, I decided to stick with the basics in Canadian Coinage. By this, I mean the dates between 1858-1967 (real Canadian coins). I consider the rest to be R.C.M. JUNK! Especially when you look at the modern day mintage's of 1/2 billion+ coins minted. No need to worry about too many Key dates there. Also you'll want to spend the few bucks it takes to have them I.C.C.S. graded, the only grading service qualified to grade Canadian coins properly and the most treasured among long term collectors. Anyhow, I hope not to have offended anyone with my radical hardcore down to earth collecting philosophy! However, this is my opinion and you know what they say about those, their like a--h---s, everyone has one!  Edited by glenzy1
12/19/2008 8:30 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
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I too collect Quarters, although in the last couple years have really been disapointed as the amount of different ones is too much to keep up with. By my count and I'm probably missing some, there are 26 different ones in 2008. (note most of these are not circulated)
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Valued Member
Canada
159 Posts |
After I "bought" a Box of quarter from the bank the other day, it really got me started on my collection. I never really noticed how many different quarters there were, until now. I'm hoping to get some gift cards from Chapters this Christmas so I can get some books on how to grade my own coins. I worked in the Aerospace industry and the tolerances in the products being sold to build airplanes had to be exact, so this will help me along in my coin grading- I have good attention for detail.
I like Quarters because of all the cool art work used over the years and because the Art is larger on the Diameter of a quarter. The size difference in general made me want to collect quarters over every other denomination.
I had a question for you guys... what would a complete Set of Queen Elizabeth II Quarters be worth to purchase? Is this a good long term investment?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I think that an interesting start, and possibly the most profitable for the future, would be to collect the colourized circulation quarters. They don't keep their colour too long in circulation, so good quality is worth collecting and they wouldn't be that expensive. Although a complete set would command a premium as a collection.  I don't think this would be true for most other quarters, as they have high mintages and too many designs. Quote:
By my count and I'm probably missing some, there are 26 different ones in 2008. (note most of these are not circulated) I must agree that perhaps the mint went a little overboard after the millenium set(s?)and collecting the oodles of hi mintage new varieties... well, went the way of the Beanie Baby.(sadly  ) I will post some pix momentarily. ...edit ... here are some earlier sets. Before I stopped caring.  I don't collect the newer colourized, but I may take my own advise, then I'll have pictures of them too!    Edited by IBGolden
12/20/2008 10:31 pm
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Valued Member
Canada
159 Posts |
IBGolden, I really like those plastic pouches you are using to hold your quarters. Where did you find those, I want to buy those.
I just bought a nice binder, plastic pages, paper coin packets and the book "The Coin Collector's Survival Manual" last-night. Looks like I'm turning into a real collector! All the collections that I have seen family and friends own are usually just a jumbled mess of coins in bad condition thrown into a box or bag, I want to be the guy that has a complete Set of fine specimens.
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Canada
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Not collecting the colorized quarters is not a sin. The way I see it, if they weren't issued for circulation, they're optional.
I see them as gimmicks, designed to fleece collectors out of their hard-earned dollars, but some people actually like them, so c'est la vie.
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I really like those plastic pouches you are using to hold your quarters. Where did you find those, I want to buy those I bought them at a local coin shop. About a buck an' a half each. There are little tabs(on the right horizontally) that pull out a several coin pocket strip, that are open at the top. Load the strip and slide back into the horizontal pocket.  They come in 4 strip versions(about twice the price) punched for a 3 ring binder as well. They also come like for dime to 1/2 dollar size. He throws the labels in for free.  The cool thing is you can mix and match strips to a certain degree(of couse the 1/2s won't fit in the dime size). I collected silver from WWII Europe and the countries fit beautifully with the mix and match technique.  You can slide a strip out without touching any coins for a better look. Ingenious.  I would think most Canadian coin shops should have them. I think they came about cuz of the quarter avalanche. Edited by IBGolden
12/21/2008 10:32 pm
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If you want to grade coins buy a magnifier. 10x mag minimum.
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Valued Member
Canada
159 Posts |
IBGolden, thanks for the info.
Roots, I'll be getting a 10x Mag very soon.
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Canada
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I have a almost complete set from 1858 forward including most of the RCM stuff that I pick up pretty cheap off of e-bay , some have pretty small mintage numbers and I buy on spec. in case they get popular in the future [doubtful]unless the mint drastically changes to issuing no more than 1 item of each denomination and that will probably never happen. |
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