St.Qtr bags, nice toning! What should I do?
GP
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Well my collecting focus has changed, been refined, whatever you want to call it. After a few attempts to sell off the mini-mint bags I bought I decided to just open them, check them out, roll them and cash them in.
So I go ahead this morning and grab one, a D mint bag of VA quarters. I open it, dump them out and notice they arent all shiney, and it doesnt look like the greasey coins I was used to seeing from the rolls lately. So I grab one, take a closer look and hmmm nice gray to blue toning!! Some of the other had pastel blue spots, one has a small rainbow and a couple even have that bag texture look to them!!
Now of course I could never get these graded, as they would surely get bagged as AT, even though I know it is real. The bags were stored in their original mint boxes in a sealed container along with the rest of my collection. and no other coins have toned, not even the raw ones, so it was obviously from the bag and not some other strange environmental item.
So now I have to make a decision. Do I just say screw it, open and sort the rest and roll them and be done. Do I continue to hold the rest of the bags to see what happens in another few years? Do I cash in the coins and fill the bags with bright silver coins and store them for several years and see what happens?
I am thinking more towards just going on with opening, rolling and taking to the bank. But wanted to see what other thought before I went ahead and opened the others. I mean the market for toned state quarters isnt exactly huge and they would most likely be considered AT anyway, since I mean you know, they are clad modern quarters, all of three years old, it just cant be real!
So I go ahead this morning and grab one, a D mint bag of VA quarters. I open it, dump them out and notice they arent all shiney, and it doesnt look like the greasey coins I was used to seeing from the rolls lately. So I grab one, take a closer look and hmmm nice gray to blue toning!! Some of the other had pastel blue spots, one has a small rainbow and a couple even have that bag texture look to them!!
Now of course I could never get these graded, as they would surely get bagged as AT, even though I know it is real. The bags were stored in their original mint boxes in a sealed container along with the rest of my collection. and no other coins have toned, not even the raw ones, so it was obviously from the bag and not some other strange environmental item.
So now I have to make a decision. Do I just say screw it, open and sort the rest and roll them and be done. Do I continue to hold the rest of the bags to see what happens in another few years? Do I cash in the coins and fill the bags with bright silver coins and store them for several years and see what happens?
I am thinking more towards just going on with opening, rolling and taking to the bank. But wanted to see what other thought before I went ahead and opened the others. I mean the market for toned state quarters isnt exactly huge
and they would most likely be considered AT anyway, since I mean you know, they are clad modern quarters, all of three years old, it just cant be real! 
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I am putting the best ones back into a bag to go back into storage. Incidently, the ones with the best toning also seemed to have less bag marks, I guess being against the bag and not other coins helps, since most of the non-toned coins were pretty beat up.
<< <i>Keep the nice ones and I don`t see why they would get bagged as AT. >>
Most moderns with nice toning get bagged, that's why... especially clad.
Jeremy
I think that when more of the state quarter bags get opened as the fad wears off, this may change. If mine are an example of what is happening to them, there may be a rush of naturally toned state quarters out there in a few years