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PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,824 ✭✭✭✭✭
...........also filling an album with state quarters out of pocket change. I've got two albums going and I'm doing it just for the fun of it.image

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  • HTubbsHTubbs Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭
    I started one when they were first released, but that lasted until Tennessee. I haven't really bothered with them since them. I have a complete set in my proof and mint sets, and that's enough for me...
  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
    I have, and the oldest are already ruined with album tone.
    I used a Dansco, so they are turning brown.
    P mint coins are super hard to find on the west coast- I only have about six. I was roll collecting too, but they got stolen.

    Why are you collection two albums, btw ?
  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My kids are each doing one from change. I did one in a Dansco from Mint & Proof Sets.
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • duck620duck620 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭✭
    i've got one complete.harder than i thought. image
  • My wife started two using Whitman Folders. She couldn't get them to stay in so she SCOTCH taped them into the folders. Since then my son and I started a Dansco with the business strike, Satin Finish, Clad Proof, and Silver Proofs, we are just missing the 2001 Clad Proof and a few of the business strikes from 2007 and 2008. It's been fun!
    Nelrak aka Ken
  • TreemanTreeman Posts: 419 ✭✭✭
    Not sure if I'm a "serious" collector, but, anyway, my wife has been filling a Dansco from pocket change...
  • 500Bay500Bay Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭
    I think I am a serious collector... And no, I am not collecting the state quarters.
    Finem Respice
  • i`m doing a dansco set of business strike and another set with business strike and clad and silver proofs. none from circulation though.

    all were from mint sets till they went to satin finish. 2005 on were from rolls.



    edited to add: i got the Hawaii quarters in the mail today. my sets are complete image
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  • Did one for our daughter, but her interest has gone from lukewarm to zero. C'est la vie.
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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If I'm a comedic collector can I answer this question?

    I take nothing seriously,

    and I am serious!
  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    Nope, my brother has been buying me uncirculated examples which I am then putting into a Littleton folder. Unfortunatly They are all turning yellow now. I didn't know the difference between mint marks before this year though and I am now working on getting examples of the ones I did not have.

    I am also pulling choice examples of the ones that are yellowing in the album from circulation when I find them. Eventually I'll have a complete set that way, and maybe I'll sell the toned set in 30 years to a toning collector image

    The only early one to regularly see in good condition is Conneticut.
    Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
  • DoctorPaperDoctorPaper Posts: 616 ✭✭✭
    I've been doing one book strictly out of change here in Wisconsin, and have all but 10 so far, mostly P's, in change. Starting to watch for Hawaii now.
    Wisconsin nationals: gotta love 'em....
  • Yep, serious collector here, and I've been filling up an album from pocket change since the state quarters program started. Finding those "D" mints is tough when you're a New Yorker. Most of mine have come from pocket change when I've been elsewhere in the country (for example, at coin shows !!).

    Definitely fun, and a lot less expensive than my other collecting habits !!

    Best,
    Sunnywood
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,731 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Eventually I'll probably collect these in gem and choice gem but for
    now I'm filling folders and have only four to go. It's a nice attractive
    set with most of them MS-63 to MS-65 though most are toward the
    low end of this range. There are a very few which are only MS-60-
    MS-62.

    I've also managed to set aside 15 rolls of very choice and gem coins
    from a couple selected states which I suspect might be overlooked.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    I am not filling the Dansco with pocket change state quarters but uncirculated (mint set/proof set) state quarters.

    Finding P mint coins in Colorado or California has never been an easy nor rewarding task as 99% of the P mint coins were carried here stuck to a car tire or have been kicked all the way across country.
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  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭

    I have been filling a few albums from pocket change: US Mint Map; Two Whitman Coin Folder Sets; and a Littleton date set album.

    I also am having trouble finding D minted coins.
    Mike Hayes
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Coin collecting is not a hobby, it's an obsession !

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  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    In between my serious searches for rare die marriages of half dimes, I confess that I have also been filling a Dansco album with state quarters from circulation. Indeed, I have also been helping my six grandchildren do the same.
    They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,824 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm using the green Littleton folder because it only has one hole for each state. All I really wanted was a type set showing one of each design. Also, since I live on the east coast, I knew it would be difficult trying to find the D mint quarters in change. The early quarters are starting to tone and are not at all unpleasant to look at.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • Not I. I can't seem to get up any enthusiasm for clad coinage...
  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    I am also have tough luck finding any D mint coins here in New York. Lately I've found a ton in circulation though, which kind of surprised me. I've even found a D mint Alaska quarter in change already! It was slightly off center, and I kept it. I like minorly off-center coins for some reason.

    The only thing I have not found a D mint anywhere of yet is a Nickel. I noticed in Ohio there was a much higher percentage of D mint quarters then here in the Hudson Valley. And it seemed to be throughout the state quarter program and even before.

    Even the two wheat cents I found while I was there last month are D mint.
    Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    Yep, plugging holes in a folder from change.

    I actually have 2 people that I know that are sending me each quarter as they find them as they also collect state quarters and heard that I was also. I don't have the heart to tell them there is no need to do so as it makes them happy to think that they are helping me.
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  • relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't know about the serious thing, but my kids do have one of those folders with the big map of the U.S. and a spot for each quarter. Of course Dad keeps an eye out for the ones they don't have.
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  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Completing 5 sets, now each are missing only 2 (Hawaii P&D).
    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have been collecting statehood quarters from circulation since the start of the program, for my children and for myself.

    A serious collecter is measured by the level of passion for collecting, and has nothing to do with grade or money spent. A person could collect only statehood quarters from circulation and still be a serious collector.
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  • OnlyGoldIsMoneyOnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Serious collector "yes" but State quarter collector "no". Those clad quarters have never caught my interest.

    Edited for spelling.
  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nope.

    I do collect Jefferson Nickels out of rolls and change however.

    The quarters just never seemed to interest me. I was getting the silver proof sets from the mint and stopped when I got bored with the designs somewhere around 2004-05.
    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

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    ~Wayne
  • Just finished our sets the other week, the kids and I. We started pulling them from circulation, but the toughies we picked up in UNC at local shows. Good fun, I think the kids enjoyed it almost as much as their old man.image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No folders or 'insert' boards... I did accumulate the uncirc, proof and silver proofs though. Cheers, RickO
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    only wheat pennies.... but i guess i am close to your question...
  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My daughter has several boards going that are filled with pocket change.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • I am, but not out of pocket change. I've purchased them individually from a local dealer who gets them from mint bags, so they
    are unc. Only 50c each. Just fininshed the set this week.
  • QuarternutQuarternut Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭
    They made collectable and interesting coins after 1838?

    image I really haven't been paying attention...

    QN

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  • I'm doing an BU set and a pocket change set.
    Stacy

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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,028 ✭✭✭✭✭
    no cannot say that I am
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,415 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How many serious coin collectors can even name the 50 states? (It's 50, right?)
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  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭


    << <i>How many serious coin collectors can even name the 50 states? (It's 50, right?) >>



    i think most of us could if we were allowed to write them down so we
    do not repeat any and confuse ourselves.

    i find naming the capitals to be much much harder for each state!
  • 2 sets for the Grand kids , but no pocket change they are all MS 63's or better .



    Touch Not The Cat Bot A Glove !!

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    Always Looking for Raw Proof Lincoln Cents !!
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    i've been doing that as well, although the dansco album cost as much as the face value of all the coins!
    Me at the Springfield coin show:
    image
    60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
  • Bayard1908Bayard1908 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>A person could collect only statehood quarters from circulation and still be a serious collector. >>



    Uh, no way.
  • mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    Not me --- never!
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.
  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    I bought one of those coin maps, but I have never filled it in.

    Maybe I will use it for a YN giveaway or smoething.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Well lets see, 50 % are silly, 29% are crazy, We have a rubber chicken, a few bears,

    some riffraff and a few idiot savants.That leaves exactly, one serious collector .
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage

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