Natural Wear on Statehood Quarters

TwoSides2aCoin

What does it look like ? I only have new ones

cladking

Be patient. In twenty years all the ones which weren't saved will be worn.


Of course you'll notice it in dribs and drabs because time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.

rgCoinGuy

From what I have seen, pretty much just nicks, scratches and crud. Probably take 100 years to wear down to less than AU.

doh

<< <i>Probably take 100 years to wear down to less than AU. >>

nicetoning42107

The designs are so flat these days that mostly you will notice field wear, absence of luster, and as you guys already mentions just a bunch of circulation marks and a slightly darker grey overall. I don't think these modern coins can CircCam.

TwoSides2aCoin

<< <i>Be patient. In twenty years all the ones which weren't saved will be worn.


Of course you'll notice it in dribs and drabs because time don't fly, it bounds and leaps. >>



It's been 9 years now for some of those coins, though... Clad I'm sure I can find a few and will post my findings in the coming weeks. Am hopeful others will participate, numismatically speaking.

rgCoinGuy

So are you going to turn this into a post your statehood quarters for wear thread?

I will go dig some out from the car!

TwoSides2aCoin

Rob, that was my intent of the thread and still is. I'm curiuos how these coins are wearing. Some of them may be ubercool... in time.

OneCent

Interesting topic. It does seem that the shq's are indestructible and those less than MS60
are few and far between. I agree with clad that probably too little time has passed in order
for these to get really nice and circulated below say AU-50. This may be a heckuva challenge
to assemble a SHQ's set in say VF-35....

I'd say around 2035-2040 you will see shq's that look like this:

TwoSides2aCoin

Excellent post, OneCent.

rgCoinGuy

Several Pictures, the first is the most worn one I found, followed by examples of many other states. Dial-Uppers Beware!

Sampling is from the Tulsa, OK, area.

TwoSides2aCoin

Thank you Rob. You set the bar. There must be some that are more worn than that.

rooksmith

In terms of scarcity - I'd say the AU is twice as scarce as BU for these.

However, I think the wear is faux-wear, which will hold down the future appreciation. Only PCGS will be able to tell us if they were artificially worn-down or not.

ernie11

With the Wyoming quarter how will we know when it's worn?

kieferscoins

<< <i>With the Wyoming quarter how will we know when it's worn? >>



Wear is a different color. In the grading class we teach that wear on a AU/MS coin is usually a grey/brown color and impairs the luster. As you rotate the coin around you can see the discoloration and loss of luster.

Cameron Kiefer

coinman420

i carried these and a couple others in my pocket for a year to see how they wear. they get nicked up but the cupro nickel seems very hard and does not wear much.

ricko

Oh no... are we now going to be concerned with AW?? (Artificial Wear).... Say it isn't so... Cheers, RickO

TwoSides2aCoin

<< <i>Oh no... are we now going to be concerned with AW?? (Artificial Wear).... Say it isn't so... Cheers, RickO >>



It's only artificial if you have artificial hands