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Alright! I've been mulling this over for awhile now. I've been wanting to start a Washington quarter set, but was unsure of how to organize it, mostly due to standard business strike Dansco albums not being available and wanting to avoid silver proofs. However, today, I decided to go all in and ordered a Dansco #8140 album from Wizard's coin supply on ebay. This is Washington quarters 1932-1998 including proofs. It's a 9 page album. I came to realize out of difficulty of finding the standard business strike album, 7140, I could just do a 8140 and not fill in the silver proofs if I don't want to, or throw an obverse facing coin in. After a little research, the silver proofs really don't seem to be that badly priced honestly. And there really aren't that many of them. I ordered three silver proofs to start with, a 1994, 95 and 98. They only cost like 12 bucks each from the seller I purchased them from on ebay. Hopefully they look good coming in. I also got these today, although... The 1970 S doesn't look good at all. Luckily, I only paid a dollar for it. I'm definitely not buying from this seller again, though.   I plan to also search through bank rolls, since quarters are in an abundance everywhere I go at my credit union branches. I don't really anticipate finding any silver coins this way, but hell, it could be fun. I did find an old 1970-S proof before in a quarter roll, and it was actually in better condition than the one I was sent from ebay! Anyone have any advice? Also, on a side note... I got a new phone recently, an S23 Ultra, and it seems to be superb for taking pics! They look much sharper than my previous phones images. Edited by Humanist1287
08/20/2025 4:02 pm
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Excellent!  Wait. Mine only has eight pages. Was that a typo?  The 90% silver proof quarters are pretty easy, and you only have four of them left to get—there are only seven, 1992-1998.  Congrats on the new phone, too.  |
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Ah! My bad! Looking at one of those Dansco vendor websites, I mistook it for 9 pages. It is 8. The regular business strike album is 7.
Yeah. I mean, honestly, that's not bad at all. I was trying to start a simple collection. But, why not all go all in and just go with proofs, too? Many of the proofs, especially the clad ones, are very reasonably priced. I mean, 5 bucks and under. And realistically, I can take my time and add these whenever I want and at my own pace. I really want to get my hands on some quarter rolls, so I can find some for the album. Obviously, they will be circulated and 1965 or newer.
I am curious to how difficult it will be to price/find some of the older silver coins pre-1965. I wonder if some coin dealers near me might have them in some kind of junk silver stash. My intention is definitely not going BU with this album. That would be costly.
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08/20/2025 4:30 pm
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Yes, clad proofs are cheap and the silver proof run is short, no reason to exclude them. Enjoy the build! It is a fun run. The 32-D an 32-S will be your pain points, but you have time. |
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Humanist1287, Just by the looks of those coin holders, I would send them back.. How could a seller send something like that to someone else? It's totally disgusting! 
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Thank you! Yeah, that seller... Sucks. I sent them an email yesterday about all this and they never responded. They never mentioned in the listening using stock photos. The 2x2's look awful due to them TAPING the darn things inside to paper that it was enclosed in. Like, really? I've never seen anyone else do that, at least not that clumsily. There aren't returns and I wouldn't really want to screw around with something that cost me under 4 dollars total, but it's just the point of it all... Seems lazy, improperly packaged and picked considering they sent me the wrong coin. Quote:
Yes, clad proofs are cheap and the silver proof run is short, no reason to exclude them.
Enjoy the build! It is a fun run. The 32-D an 32-S will be your pain points, but you have time. Thanks, jbuck. Honestly, the 32-D and 32-S still don't even seem that bad. There seems to be a ton on ebay that are reasonably priced, in the 60 dollar-ish range.  Edited by Humanist1287
08/21/2025 05:41 am
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Best of wishes with your new set. There are no stoppers in this series that are outrageously priced, but be careful with any prospective ebay purchase of a raw 32-D or 32-S. Those two key dates are frequently altered with fake mint marks. |
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I see! I will definitely keep a lookout. My only fear is the cost to purchase many of the older silver coins, regardless of key date or not. Many of them it seems can be had for under 10 dollars on ebay. However... That's a lot of money still. Lol. This is why I kind of wanted to buy a blank quarter album, and build a dedicated clad Washington set from 1965 with clad proofs. However, the only company that currently sells a blank quarter album is Whitman and I don't really want to go that route for something I'm going to be swapping in and out a lot of since I will upgrade coins when I find better ones from circulation. I think what I will do is work on the clad coins, including proofs first. Then I'll start working on the older ones. I'm hoping I can find find some in junk silver. |
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Congrats on your new album. I think in the end you'll be happy you got the one with proofs that way you won't have any regrets not having a place for proofs. Quote:
The 2x2's look awful due to them TAPING the darn things inside to paper that it was enclosed in I've had some taped like that, took the whole face off the 2x2 trying to free it from the paper it was taped to. Quote:
I wonder if some coin dealers near me might have them in some kind of junk silver stash Would be cool if he'd let you pick through the junk silver so at least you could get different dates so you wouldn't have duplicates. ....Now when do you get the Ike album  |
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AH! Ikes. Honestly, I'm not sure. I thought about doing a simple "business strike collection," but it turns out there are still silver coins in that set. I'd love to build an Ike clad set. But, there doesn't seem to be much way of getting around silver coins one way or another, so I might as well do the whole set eventually. Just.. not right now. They did have a Dansco Ike album used for only 25 bucks on ebay recently. Sadly I was too slow getting to it. I'd like to finish my SBA dollar collection at least first! Edited by Humanist1287
08/21/2025 06:54 am
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, so I might as well do the whole set eventually Probably the best way to go, so no regrets. Quote:They did have a Dansco Ike album used for only 25 bucks on ebay recently. Sadly I was too slow getting to it. At least you are looking Quote:I'd like to finish my SBA dollar collection at least first! Sounds like a plan that way you don't feel so spread thin trying to work on a bunch of albums at the same time, unless you like having options I have a bunch of different ones I'm working on, almost to the point of ADHD. Eventually I'll get the holes filled but since I'm starting over there are alot of holes and hard to focus on just one set |
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You should always go all-in with an Ike set. It is just not the same without the silver or proofs in it. |
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Quote:I'd like to finish my SBA dollar collection at least first! That's what I've been waiting to see Humanist1287 ..  |
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(don't listen to jbuck when it comes to Eisenhower dollars - he is a teensy bit biased)  but congrats of starting a quarter collection, and the early quarters [1932-1998) is a great way to start |
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I never, ever hide my bias! |
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