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Ok I confess I fish for state quarters in my change. Good ones, I let the crap pass. I got two littleton coin folders, ($3 each) the informal ones you jam the coins into, and I have had a hell of a lot of fun with my kids putting them together.

Now be honest and say if you are collecting these things. Vote in poll. This is a blind poll and nobody will know that your are not aimed at PMs alone with a laserlike focus.

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Remember you can also get them all in "silver proof sets" also. My daughter has the folders with the circulated coins, but I also bought her a couple of the silver sets. Other than the price it is nice to see a "real money" version of the "tokens". I wish they'd do that with the "fake gold" dollars.

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The more quarters you hoard the happier the government is

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I only keep one each of the "tokens", and spend the rest like any other "token". I doubt anyone is "hoarding" the things.

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I have all the quarters in silver, and will sell the set when it is complete.

In terms of circulated, only if I can get them in high quality MS66 or better for a good price, or I can pull one from a fresh roll at the bank or a vendor who just cracked one open.

I don't mess with the circulated, mostly because my little girl is too young collect them. She needs 2 more years.

Good question, Anty Ep. Even if you yank them from circulation to put away, and they don't appreciate in value, spend them. It only cost a quarter!

The Great Ag

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We collect circulated ones for our 10 year old daughter. She has a fold-out booklet thing with spaces for P and D mintages of the 50 states. Sure they're crap, but the kids enjoy it.

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I voted no. I don't collect them because I equate them with Beenie Babies....made by the multi, multi, multi-millions for collectors. I think as many or perhaps more will be "saved" (if not in designed-books then in drawers and cans) then circulated, and there will always be so many of the coins available from dealers and grandpa/grandma/mod/dad/aunt/uncle/kids...etc. that they do not have any potential to gain much value over face. Competition to sell will stay so great that the coins will always enjoy a buyers market.

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looks like the db loss shook out the party poopers but the collectors are back voting again. :wink:

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I buy fresh BU rolls from my job when we get them in, I pay only $10 for the $10 roll so there is no loss.

Im gonna sell them off and buy some more BU 1963 Franklin half dollar rolls.

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That might not be true for some coins (how much does it cost to mint a quarter???). Every cent and nickel that gets hoarded costs the guvmint money now, since they cost more to make than their face value!

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Those things seem to lose value during the first two years, if you buy them directly from the usmint. You have to either buy them on Ebay, or at least keep them many years for them to gain in value.

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I just got the silver proof set for 06 from the mint and I like it fine and am happy to hold on to it indefinitely.

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I put one of each aside as I get them in my loose change. When I get them all I will fill a sock with them. (Another blackjack!):yippee:

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I pretty much stash away just about any change I get. At least it beats converting it into FRNs and saving those.

Oh and hi all.

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No, I don't collect "clad" fiat base metal coins.

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i used to save(not collect) them when they first came out, i just tossed them into my sock drawer. recently, i traded them in for "good" pennies. they came out to about 50 lbs. of copper.


j6p

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No, but I'm still guilty of collecting baseless currency tho, I got some 1934, 1950 and (good condition) 1970s and 1980s FRNS in a BILL collection.

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Yea, me too, i have German marks(east and west),GBP,Soviet,"old pesos" I have a soft spot for silver certificates, i even have a 1963 $2 , you know the ones kennedy got whacked over.

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I voted no
You Should Look for errors though. (Although I don't)
otherwize they are worth 25 cents

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http://www.apmex.com/Product/8092/19...ated_Roll.aspx

wow

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I think they would be of some value as an educational tool (not on value but on learning the states) for kids to collect them. As a store of wealth - no.

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I've got some misgivings as far as teaching kids about coin collecting by getting them to build a set of State Quarters.

Growing up in the 60's, the little blue Whitman folders were common... most of the kids I knew had them. Through those folders, a lot if us were led to believe that collecting coins was all about building date sets. It took a long time to shake that. It's really only recently that I've finally come to thoroughly see all the pitfalls of this. I'm afraid the State Quarters ultimately teach kids the same awful lesson.

My son got interested in coins, partially through the State Quarter program and partially because of me showing him some old Morgans and such. So for Christmas I gave him a Lincoln Cent album and a bunch of rolls of Wheatbacks and a few specific semi-key dates. I should have thought this through more clearly first. While he did have fun searching the rolls, he's about 20 coins shy of completing the set. Naturally, among those missing are the rarer pieces in the series. We've got about $200 invested so far, but to finish out the set will take another $2,000 at book! He'd have been so much better off with one good $200 coin than a book full of common stuff in a set that will likely never be completed.

He's already turning his attention away from the Lincolns & State Quarters and gravitating toward modern Commemoratives, as well as showing great interest in PM's. We talked it through... and I admitted to him that I'd learned a lesson about date sets too. While he was working on the Lincolns, I was trying to build a set of Indian Head Cents. Same sort of result. $1,300 invested and another $2,200 to go just to get the LAST FOUR coins to complete that set.

The Lincolns are on hold (so are the IHC's). His goal now is to pick coins he likes and forget building date sets (and so is mine!). He likes Commemoratives because of all the different subject matter to pick from and he chose to stick with the $1's because they are real Silver, unlike most of the halves (atta' boy). He's got several different ones already... some received as gifts and some he's bought with his own money. They are all slabbed PCGS MS69's and PR69's. On top of that, we agreed a while back to put his savings account money into Gold. He had just enough for 1 oz at the time... up in value about 20% since then.

He is 11 years old. He's got Silver. He's got Gold.

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I don't collect them either. My father does though.. Nothing wrong with it. It's like collecting anything else.

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I'm collecting them ,so far I've 8 states.

Being in Canada,the state quarters don't come up to often.

I've actually thought of asking to purchase some of them .

I don't know why,probably the same reason I'm collecting the stupid looking Vancouver 2010 Olympic quarters.