State quarter fatigue

RYK · June 24, 2005 1:20AM

I have enjoyed the state quarter program as much as anyone. I have enjoyed collecting them from pocket change with my son. I have enjoyed watching the new designs evolve (and the surrounding controversy). Seeing the Mint shake things up with a new popular program has been excit
ing.

But I am done, now. Perhaps it's my East Coast-o-centric upbringing...perhaps it's the length of time of the program or large number of issues. I am beginning to dread the next state quarter. Soon, it will be loathing.

Anyone else with state quarter fatigue?

mrearlygold · June 24, 2005 1:21AM

When are they going to start with the State halves?

TP

Steve27 · June 24, 2005 1:23AM

Yep, I'm pulling them out of change and asking for rolls at the bank in order to fill my Whitman folders, but it's getting to be like work.

TerrapinWill · June 24, 2005 1:24AM

I will always have a soft spot in my heart for these coins, because it was the thing that got me interested in coins. My daughter gave me one of those maps and I started plugging them in.....My interests have changed and grown, but state quarters always make me smile. I started a Dansco just for kicks with Quads from 1999-2005 Mints sets....it looks kinda nice...

Millertime · June 24, 2005 1:27AM

The only thing I'm getting tired of is the fact that I had to resort to buying a few Oregon quarters on eBay because I can't find 2005 quarters in change. Even previous issues are becoming less and less common in change and P mint is almost impossible.

Millertime

kranky · June 24, 2005 1:29AM

My experience is the opposite of Millertime's. I'm seeing new issues in change regularly, plus I am noticing an increase in the number of early issues in very nice condition. I'm wondering if some people who had been stashing them away in rolls/bags have gotten tired (or ran out of storage space!) and started spending them or turning them in to banks.

RYK · June 24, 2005 1:40AM

Even previous issues are becoming less and less common in change and P mint is almost impossible.

A year ago, a friend who knows I collect coins told me that he was having trouble finding a Delaware for his collection with his son. I told him I would find him one. It took me almost a year!

Longacre · June 24, 2005 1:58AM

I am indifferent to the program, but I don't like the spaghetti hair Washington that they have on the obverse of the state quarters. I wish they kept the obverse design of Washington the same.

AlixTCat · June 24, 2005 2:01AM

<< <i>The only thing I'm getting tired of is the fact that I had to resort to buying a few Oregon quarters on eBay because I can't find 2005 quarters in change. Even previous issues are becoming less and less common in change and P mint is almost impossible.

Millertime >>

Try living on the East part of the country. "D" mint are impossible to find in change here.

Numismatics · June 24, 2005 2:01AM

I like these State quaters too.

Even in Canada here, I sometimes receive State quarters in changes.

Wekar · June 24, 2005 2:22AM

If you're already getting tired of the 50 State Quarters, how are you going to make it through the 3143 Commemorative Country Cents?

I don't have state quarter fatigue yet, but that's only because I haven't purchased a now obselete album yet. If the mint comes out with Satin Finish Silver Proofs next year, then I'll be done.

Millertime · June 24, 2005 2:34AM

<< <i>Try living on the East part of the country. "D" mint are impossible to find in change here. >>

I'll bet they are. I have all the "D" mints (except for the new ones) but I'm still missing at least 15 "P" mints. I think I've found between 10 and 20 dollars of "P" mint quarters out of hundreds of dollars of state quarters.

Millertime

Cnitas · June 24, 2005 2:36AM

Sounds like a trade is in order...

tander123 · June 24, 2005 2:37AM

I burned out a while ago. However, if it wasn't for the state quarter program, I don't know that I would be collecting coins.

Mercury · June 24, 2005 2:45AM

I have much better luck finding the P mints, then the D ones in New Orleans. However, the D mints are not impossable they just take longer.

And I agree they are what got me back into collecting but my main focus has moved onto other coins. However, I still enjoy the thrill of finding that missing coin in my change.

cladking · June 24, 2005 4:01AM

Yes and no. I like this program and the coins (though many designs are somewhat banal), and
still look forward to adding them to the set. But even more I'm starting to look forward to the end
of the program and can't wait to see what the new quarter will look like when it's over. I've always
believed that the program's greatest effect would come when it ended and people try to assemble
collections from pocket change. By then the earlier P and D mints will be better mixed across the
country and the later issues will be numerous. Many of the hoarded coins will have been released
back into circulation and collectors will know the easy ones from the tough ones at least for the early
issues.

Best of all, perhaps, is that the earlier clad quarters will be tough to find even in nice XF and some of
the old eagle reverse coins will be tough to find in a nice VG.

State quarter fatigue

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