Do you own any state quarter rolls?

TurtleCat

Recent questions and posts got me thinking. Certainly many people saved rolls of these at the time. My question is today do you have any rolls still? Myself, I have one roll of each mint for TN. I’ve been pondering just spending it. My mom has two rolls of each state and mint. My brother has one roll for each state and mint.

yosclimber

I helped a relative sell a collection that included a partial roll from each state and mint mark.
It took several hours to get them into paper rolls and all were deposited at the bank - over $1000.
I did check them first for varieties like the Wisconsin extra leaf - found none.

OAKSTAR

I've gotten rolls like these from banks, searched them, then throw them back.

coinbuf

Never purchased any rolls from the mint. As I do own a business that involves a fair bit of cash/change I was able to find and hold a few really nice examples of each date and most mm and fill an album. Being on the west coast the Philly coins were the toughest and those coins are not as nice. I still have a few of the best examples that I pulled out, but not rolls.

bsshog40

My late wife bought me a roll of South Dakota quarters in 2006. Never have opened them. Only roll I have.

NeophyteNumismatist

I built a Dansco album of circulated State quarters and another Dansco set of ATB quarters from circulation in 2020. This was the first thing I did when I started collecting, and I was so proud of myself when I was done. I was doing 1-2 boxes of quarters a week. My kids and I hunted a LOT during COVID. I would love to have an uncirculated set one day, but I don't see me devoting resources to it, because I am working on other things (and my kids' interests wax and wane).

But, I will never forget the elation I felt when I put that last coin in the hole. It got me hooked on set-building. It was special.

Thanks for posting!

may

1999 Delaware and Pennsylvania, fresh from the bank on the day they came out.

TurtleCat

Do any of you guys think you’ll spend them eventually or just keep a hold of them?

Tom147

Thought about with the Delaware release. Saw the mintage #'s and noped right out of those thoughts. I buy mint & proof sets every year to fill my Danscos. That's it for me.

jmlanzaf

Probably, but only because I forgot to throw them in the coinstar.

I have two gold plated sets in cherry boxes. I'm going to have to spend them but it's such a nuisance to take them out of the plastic snap together holders. Lol

Tibor

2 of each mint including San Fran.

Sapyx

Never owned a whole roll of 'em. Why would I need a whole roll, when I only really want just one of each coin?

bsshog40

I have a jug of misc change I don't spend now. No reason to open the only roll I have. Lol

Modwriter

I inherited a large box of state quarters with a still packaged state quarter mint folder. I went through them and separated the good from the bad and filled most of the folder up with Denver minted quarters. I ordered the complete set of Philadelphia mint quarters from Littleton, and slowly filling up the missing Denver Mint spots when I buy mint proof sets. Then it will be onto my new 2009 D.C. and Territories folder.

BLUEJAYWAY

Never considered saving any rolls.

olympicsos

A lot of them are going to end up in circulation. State Quarters stopped being important after the series ended and they really fell out of interest towards the end. Especially after 2005 or so. But they were great hooks in getting new people into the hobby before social media and the internet really became a fixture of society. Social media and the internet is a BIG reason why other coin programs haven't garnered the same interest as State Quarters, 1999 was the last gasp for analog hobbies for a lot of people.

silverpop

no never saw a need in buying a roll of those

rec78

I just got 21 rolls of OBW state quarters from my bank a few weeks ago. Over the past year I have gotten over 100 state quarter rolls from the same bank, I guess that someone is slowly depositing a few rolls a week. When I first got some over a year ago my local coin shop paid me $11.00 per roll. After a while he lowered it to $10.50 and today, I get only face value. I sell them for face because this dealer is a friend for over 50 years. He sells them for face to a certain customer that he wants to keep happy because he purchases a lot of other coins.
Most dealers tell you to take them to the bank or spend them. These are mega-common. I do not keep any for my self.

Glen2022

I did win a roll at a coin club raffle. Only one I own.

AUandAG

I have state quarter rolls from where my kids and wife were born and of course a couple from Nevada (where we reside now).
bob
vegas baby!

Cougar1978

Never had any. Guy I know from shows bought a bunch from estate paying face plus 5%. It had lots of other stuff. He paid melt less 10 pct on some circ WLH rolls 90 pct silver and bought all the slabbed coins US Classic and Bullion at 65 pct CPG. Flipped a lot of it at his next show.

psuman08

I have a few rolls of the early states that were from local banks.

Walkerfan

Never bought any rolls but pulled a lot of them from circulation 10+ years ago, when they were being released. Got bored and decided they weren’t worth much, so I spent them.

cmerlo1

That a lot of people are saving rolls of them is precisely why I don't. I just don't see them ever being rare enough to justify having my money tied up in them.

TurtleCat

I’m kinda convinced now to open my couple of rolls and see if there is anything extraordinary (unlikely) and just spend the rest. $20 woo! Like 1/500th a cool gold dollar…

Pghpete

I have rolls for all of the dates/mints, as well as the proof silver sets. Thought they'd be worth more than face someday. Oh well, at least I have a couple thousand dollars in quarters should I have some big loads of laundry to do at the local laundromat. I was kind of hoping that the Delaware and Pennsylvania rolls would appreciate, but probably not.

Overdate

I have a roll of silver proof quarters of my home state. Bought it years ago for near melt.

Custerlost

Bought most rolls offered by the mint at a premium, and when the local bank had them for their customers, at face. They were taking up a lot of space, and weigh quite a bit. For a while there was a reported coin shortage, and bank was offering a free toaster for new deposits, so they all got cashed in. The toaster went as a housewarming gift.

ATB S rolls I will be holding onto yet for a while, but largely because of the increased premiums and lack of any value, I no longer purchase clad products from the mint.

My only mint purchases over the past 3 years have been the Morgan offerings, and only on the off chance that silver will help them hold some value down the line.

gumby1234

@Pghpete said:
I have rolls for all of the dates/mints, as well as the proof silver sets. Thought they'd be worth more than face someday. Oh well, at least I have a couple thousand dollars in quarters should I have some big loads of laundry to do at the local laundromat. I was kind of hoping that the Delaware and Pennsylvania rolls would appreciate, but probably not.

The laundromats dont use quarters anymore.

rte592

I have a few strike through error rolls and if I can find someone who needs them more than I do I wouldn't have any.

Kurisu

I've got a bunch of the Mint rolls and bunch of Loomis rolls from when they came out, and a few of the shrink wrapped plastic rolls (not sure which vendor did the shrink wrap rolls).

Last week my favorite Chase told me they got some Loomis rolls turned in from a customer.
Turned out they were all original rolls 2002-2008 from when those came out.

One roll already had a tear in it and was taped...so I opened that one.
A super fun little collection dump of the America the Beautiful rolls.

Highest likely grade in well cared for vendor rolls is about an MS66.

humanssuck

I know a collector who has 10 rolls of each state quarter, both the P and D mint mark. He's been telling me for years how one day he's going to start breaking them open and putting them in Dansco albums and sell one complete set a month and he's going to fund his retirement that way.

Personally i think the Dansco album by itself would cost more than the set is worth....

nwcoast

@humanssuck said:
I know a collector who has 10 rolls of each state quarter, both the P and D mint mark. He's been telling me for years how one day he's going to start breaking them open and putting them in Dansco albums and sell one complete set a month and he's going to fund his retirement that way.

Personally i think the Dansco album by itself would cost more than the set is worth....

I sure hope your friend has another retirement plan beyond this state quarter Dansco album pipe dream!

Steven59

I have a boxful of rolls that were bought when the series first started in 99' but have never gone through and searched them (yet)

Fraz

From highest sold prices- complete w/ proofs:

From lowest sold prices- some empty albums:

From the middle- completed sets:

JWP

I bought rolls of state quarters from the bank but eventually stopped and never did the same with the ATB series. These 2 series are done and I'm glad. Just wish the mint would not have decide to do it again, but they did with the women's quarters. At least the magicians are happy. These 2 headed quarters are suited for their profession.

HiBucky

300-400 rolls 5 to 10 rolls from every state never looked at them. In a box at my parents house.. My parents neighbor worked at bank and picked them up for me when they came out...Maybe its time to look..

TurtleCat

@HiBucky said:
300-400 rolls 5 to 10 rolls from every state never looked at them. In a box at my parents house.. My parents neighbor worked at bank and picked them up for me when they came out...Maybe its time to look..

That is a load of rolls! Hope you find something cool in that lot.

FreeThinker

I collect the rolls of the state quarters and AtB quarters that I have designed (6 total). When I attended the American Samoa quarter launch on Feb. 13, 2020, I purchased the limit of ten rolls. Later, after the ceremony, U.S. Mint Director David J. Ryder and I were discussing the day's events when he unexpectedly offered to sign all ten of my rolls. That evening in my hotel room, I added my signature and date to each roll. To date, I have only five rolls remaining with the double signatures after having given away or gifted the other five rolls as singles to family members and friends.

David signed a lot of rolls at the ceremony but I signed very few because for a variety of reasons there was no table set up for me to do so. Therefore, these five rolls are the only rolls that will ever feature both of our signatures.

COCollector

Maybe someday, I'll open 'em and search for MS68 PL candidates. But that sounds tedious and likely unrewarding.

At least my local laundromat still takes quarters.

WAYNEAS

I still own all the rolls that I purchased from the mint. I also still have all the sealed bags of state coins. They reside in the back of my safe collecting dust.
These will be hand-me downs to the next generation of young collectors (hopefully family members).
Wayne

Tom147

@nwcoast said:

@humanssuck said:
I know a collector who has 10 rolls of each state quarter, both the P and D mint mark. He's been telling me for years how one day he's going to start breaking them open and putting them in Dansco albums and sell one complete set a month and he's going to fund his retirement that way.

Personally i think the Dansco album by itself would cost more than the set is worth....

I sure hope your friend has another retirement plan beyond this state quarter Dansco album pipe dream!

And hope he can find the Danscos.

yspsales

Kinda go at with a hobby in mind.

I always buy a few at shows.

Crack them looking for gems.

Hit a couple of top pops...

I spend alot of MS66-67's lol

golden

Got rid of mine years ago.

BillJones

I own the date and mint set my wife and I helped to build for my late mother in law. I also have the complete clad and silver set of Proof coins. I never owned a roll of those coins ever, not even when I was a dealer.

They were incredibly popular in their day. I knew a coin shop owner who bought enough rolls that he thought he would set for years. He sold them all as singles in less than a year.

Does anyone remember those little bags of State Quarters the mint sold years ago? They were hot as fire years ago. People were paying over $700 for them, but they had to remain sealed. I thought they were the dumbest buy on the planet. All you had was a little canvas bag and coins you couldn’t see.

TurtleCat

@BillJones said:
Does anyone remember those little bags of State Quarters the mint sold years ago? They were hot as fire years ago. People were paying over $700 for them, but they had to remain sealed. I thought they were the dumbest buy on the planet. All you had was a little canvas bag and coins you couldn’t see.

I do but I don’t think I ever looked on the secondary market to see what they went for. I always wondered if there was a chance to get any kind of error out of them but I imagine that it was very unlikely or as likely as getting one from a roll.

Kurisu

Moving some of my rolls around...forgot I had these.

BillJones

@TurtleCat said:

@BillJones said:
Does anyone remember those little bags of State Quarters the mint sold years ago? They were hot as fire years ago. People were paying over $700 for them, but they had to remain sealed. I thought they were the dumbest buy on the planet. All you had was a little canvas bag and coins you couldn’t see.

I do but I don’t think I ever looked on the secondary market to see what they went for. I always wondered if there was a chance to get any kind of error out of them but I imagine that it was very unlikely or as likely as getting one from a roll.

My understanding was that these bags had to be sealed to have value. As soon as they were opened, all you had was a bunch of quarters and a little canvas bag.