State Quarter Set: Is It Worth It?

I also was not going to collect these, however when my wife actually showed interest I jumped at the opportunity to share the hobby. She enjoyed the hunt and it enhanced her tolerance of my hobby. While never really giving me grief over it she didn't understand how I could spend $70 on a 50 cent piece....anyway it gave us a chance do something we both enjoyed doing and that in itself was priceless.

Also as for putting them in a folder we simply put them in with the reverse showing...

ps-most folders have the date printed on it.

I think it would be worth your time to put together a set. You could sort through rolls and find them rather quickly. Or you could take the route of just buying a set and then start fresh with the National Parks set.

I think everything has been said on this topic, and I agree that this particular series is what got some of my cousins excited over coins. (I guess they're more excited about the hunt, but hey, it's progress.)

I agree with all that has been said. I have been working on my 4th set.
It really is cheap to put a nice P & D set together.
Just a suggestion. If you are doing a P & D set you can put the P with the Obverse showing and the D with the reverse showing.
Also the date is on the reverse along with the year each became a state, well except for the first 13, that is based on when they signed the constitution. My first set has all the reverses showing on front of the Dansco page.
I think once you start you will want to do more than one set, do it now in 20 years the better grade coins will be much more, even more so with the silver proofs.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I think I'm convinced to start. Eaglefoot, and others, I'm not sure what I was thinking, I knew the date was on the reverse, just forgot I guess. I think I'll cheap-out for now and get a folder(s) and put an AU set together. Then, if I like the look of the set enough, maybe I'll get a Dansco and go Unc. Proofs would be cool too, but I think that's pushing it a little for me. I'm also working on Mercs, Lincolns, and the all important type set, so State Quarters will be a fun series to work on in between those.

Ceaton, you propose jumping straight to Unc, which I like (I hate spending a lot, knowing I'll have to upgrade later) Do you think many "BU" coins can still be found in circulation, or is it best to just buy them all? Also, my RedBook lists them at about a buck for MS-63. Is that anywhere close to the actual price I should expect to pay? If so, then I'd definitely go BU, but I have a feeling they're a little more than that.

Perhaps I should start 2X2ing some AU-Unc examples of all the new quarters as they come out, so I don't have to pay premium for them later...

Well, like others say....if you enjoy the hunt of nice AU, possibly BU coins in circulation then go for it. I mentioned skipping the AU coins because there are sooooo many State Quarters out there that you would not have trouble putting a BU set together for cheap.

BU set can be had for less then $50 easy. 2 times face, good deal in my opinion. I always say do it right the first time, so my way of thinking says go to BU :) If ebay is an option, people are selling full sets pulled from bank rolls for under $50, just to give you an idea. I would say most all coming out of rolls are at least MS63....but I basically make sure there are not alot of hits and/or scratches etc.

What did I do?!? I had an innocent idea, and now it's another big project! It's my own fault though, I knew this would happen.

Well...I guess I'm headed to the coin shop tomorrow. I had on the list " State Quarter folder(s)" Perhaps I should shoot for the long run yet again and change it to " State Quarter Dansco"....."with proofs"

I think it would make for a pretty nice set, though. And, even with proofs, not tooooo expensive.

Thanks for the advice and encouragement...I think.

A couple of days after my son started collecting Lincoln cents, my wife picked up at a craft show a wooden map with holes for quarters. I soon found that to actually fit the coins in nicely, I had to tap them with a hammer. I figured that " State Quarters from Circulation" was more a family project than a collection, so I was okay with it. Anyway, the whole family had a lot of fun checking through our change, and it only took about five weeks to finish the set (one per state + DC--there were 51 holes). It looks nice on the wall.

I've saved a Guam and an American Samoa as well.

Simon is itching to collect quarters now, so eventually he'll finish a P & D set without any hammer-tapping--although we're going to start with clad eagle-back Washingtons.