67 Quarters in my change bucket. What's in yours?
BryceM
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Every few months I empty the change bucket out. This time there were 67 quarters (well, 68 if you count the Canadian one.) I would have thought there would be many more States reverses still circulating and fewer eagle reverses. Strange how seldom I actually look at these.
Here's how they break down in July of 2019:
Eagle Reverse - 23 (34%)
Bicentennial Reverse - 2 (3%)
States Reverse - 18 (27%)
America the Beautiful - 24 (36%)
The eagle reverses were mostly VF with a few better and a few worse. The states reverses weren't much better, but there was a couple that were somewhere between AU and BU. Here's how they broke down:
- Georgia
- Connecticut x3
- Virginia x2 (one very nice BU)
- Rhode Island x2
- Tennessee
- Missouri
- Floida
- Wisconsin x2
- Minnesotta
- Oregon
- Kansas
- Colorado
- Utah
The ATB quarters were mostly, with some each way.
- Great Basin
- Ft. McHenry
- Arches
- Kisatchie
- Blue Ridge Parkway x3
- Saratoga
- Harper's Ferry x4
- Ft. Moultrie
- Effigy Mounds
- Ozark Riverways
- Ellis Island
- George Rogers Clark x2
- Voyageurs
- Cumberland Island x3
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Nice breakdown. It would take a long time to figure out mine. I started saving change when my youngest daughter was 4. She turned 15 last week. This will go towards her first car.
I have a few large jars and several Ziploc bags (five or six) full of change, that keeps accumulating on the bedroom bureau.... When my wife gets fed up, she dumps it in another container....there has got to be some good coins in there... Some snowy, sub zero winter day.....Cheers, RickO
Well my first thought is that you had too much time on your hands,
I wouldn't have even thought to do a breakdown like that of pocket change just roll em up and send em to the bank.
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Wife just robs me blind and rummages through my pants when I'm asleep looking for anything she can find. Funny thing is she has control of all our income!!
bob
Welcome to the club~ Who know if their excuse of doing the laundry was true. As a reminder, sale receipt and pocket change could be the evidences that you have a hidden fund .
I've saved quarters since the mid 80's. Usually in quart jars or jelly
jars. I have about 65-70 jars. Yes I know that the quarters could be
earning interest and some day they will.
I only fill up a coffee can with quarters then I go to the bank. I am always amazed at how many bicentennials and 1965-67s are in there. The rest I don't really bother to notice.
Parking meter change... a couple of dimes and quarters.
I also have years of accumulating change around the house.
Recently, I have been taking some of my rolled up coins to the bank, and taking that money to my LCS, and buying 90% junk silver with it.
Now instead of having those coins laying around for years and getting inflated away, I am turning it into a hedge against inflation by using those coins to buy silver.
I mainly use cash and never use the coin change. Toss it in my rolling machine and every 12-18 months or so I cash it in. Put a set of tires on my old truck, the current set tires on my jeep, the current set of tires on my truck, and lots of xmas/vaca pocket money over the years.
This was the mid 2013ish-2014 haul.
anyone get any W quarters as of yet?
64.6% post '98 quarters compared to eagle reverse coins is almost exactly what I'm seeing as well. We're getting pretty close to 67% in the Chicago area (66.5%).
Finding nice attractive eagle reverse coins that aren't culls, corroded, and/ or beaten up in circulation is getting very difficult. On average you'll need two rolls of quarters to find a nice attractive evenly worn quarter of any date before 1980. And then this coin will generally be worn down to VF- or worse.
At the rate nice attractive older coins are disappearing there will be no "collectible" eagle reverse coins in circulation in just about five years. Most of them will just get beaten by an ugly stick. Most wear comes from counting machines now days and these inflict little nicks and scratches. Quarters simply have so little value that people throw them in jars and then take them to the bank.
When the debt hits a quadrillion in a few years we'll be tossing small bills in with the other obsolete money.
Zero. I don't and haven't used or received coins as change in years except to pay toll fees where I had no option. I don't like carrying change because it doesn't buy anything. I still carry more cash than most people though.
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Dumped it at the gas station on Saturday 30.65 a combo of Quarters, dimes and nickels