State Quarters...Are They Dead?

OneCent · January 27, 2007 2:46PM

Other than the first silver quarters set, the rest of the series seems to be weak.

I don't see any real value in the rest of the issues although I will continue to purchase the silver sets.

What say you? Any potential left in the rest of the series or has the excessive mintages by the Mint ruined it?

basestealer · January 27, 2007 2:48PM

I find the designs ugly

I will probably hoard away a few of my state when it comes out though.

itsnotjustme · January 27, 2007 2:49PM

Excessive mintage by the Mint? Their job is to produce coinage for the US economy. They produce to demand. They did nothing wrong by producing large numbers.

I know roll prices are certainly in the tubes (good pun?) from where they had been.

flaminio · January 27, 2007 2:56PM

I'm filling up my quarterboard. It's a fun hobby for the kids.

The SQs were minted for the masses, not for a bunch of flippers to make money on. The 1999 silvers, and to a lesser extent the 2001s, were an aberration, and not the intended norm.

OneCent · January 27, 2007 3:15PM

Watch out for Hawaii.

sumnom · January 27, 2007 3:30PM

I can harldy wait for the SQ program to end. What will happen to the quarter design after the SQs?

CaptHenway · January 27, 2007 3:32PM

The business strikes have saved the hobby by getting millions of collectors back into it. I don;t care if they are ever worth anything.
TD

sumnom · January 27, 2007 3:36PM

Was the hobby really in such bad shape?

clw54 · January 27, 2007 3:38PM

State quarters are a true form of collecting. Kids can fill albums with them for a quarter apiece. Pretty cool.

airplanenut · January 27, 2007 3:39PM

<< State quarters are a true form of collecting. Kids can fill albums with them for a quarter apiece. Pretty cool. >>

If only we had commemorative cents!

clw54 · January 27, 2007 3:41PM

<< 

<< State quarters are a true form of collecting. Kids can fill albums with them for a quarter apiece. Pretty cool. >>

If only we had commemorative cents! >>

Maybe starting in 2009?

sumnom · January 27, 2007 3:46PM

All the other quarters in circulation are a quarter apiece as well.

basestealer · January 27, 2007 4:14PM

<< The business strikes have saved the hobby by getting millions of collectors back into it. I don;t care if they are ever worth anything.
TD >>

Of course, we could argue that the hobby was in better shape when only the oddball 80 year old cared about coins. They'd buy them from other oddball 80 year olds, and there was little market motivation to cheat, counterfeit, or alter coins to scam the millions of newbies to the hobby. And even with the influx of new collectors, I think most still turn to the oddball 80 year olds for the good stuff.

JrGMan2004 · January 27, 2007 4:20PM

<< All the other quarters in circulation are a quarter apiece as well. >>

But to a kid... once you've seen one, you've seen them all...

itsnotjustme · January 27, 2007 4:33PM

The House passed a quarter Bill for DC and territories. If the Senate does the same, would could have ONE MORE YEAR! The would make the 2009 Mint Set more than a pocket full.

Boothill40 · January 27, 2007 4:41PM

Gave a set of BU quarters to auction off at work and they made $609.00 for the Baker to Vegas fund so people are still interested.

cullenbryant · January 27, 2007 5:35PM

<< State quarters are a true form of collecting. Kids can fill albums with them for a quarter apiece. Pretty cool. >>

totally agree. it's fun, educational and available at even cost. some of the 99's are already hard to find in descent
shape.
i hope the presidential coins at least see a psuedo circulation that can be pulled from to fill albums.

basestealer · January 27, 2007 6:01PM

<< 

<< State quarters are a true form of collecting. Kids can fill albums with them for a quarter apiece. Pretty cool. >>

totally agree. it's fun, educational and available at even cost. some of the 99's are already hard to find in descent
shape.
i hope the presidential coins at least see a psuedo circulation that can be pulled from to fill albums. >>

Hell they're minting 400 million of them--they shouldn't be hard to find! Banks and post offices should be overflowing with them. I think I prefer the bucks to the quarts, if given a choice. Maybe I'll get a Dansco and see what happens.

RichieURich · January 28, 2007 2:42AM

No, state quarters are not dead, but IMO, based on some recent local auctions, finding a buyer for any of the BU rolls is rather difficult at anything over $11.

planetsteve · January 28, 2007 2:47AM

<< I can harldy wait for the SQ program to end. What will happen to the quarter design after the SQs? >>

I'm hoping for the 11th year just for my own amusement -- you know, the annually proposed, always-failed plan to commemorate four US Territories and Washington DC.

Any chance they'll cycle through all 50 again? Or will the public resist, saying that sequels are always worse?

Jdurg · January 28, 2007 2:54AM

I wish the series was dead, or at least the 1999 Silver Proof coins. (As those are the only five coins I need to fill out my Dansco but right now I don't feel like spending $400 on all five of them).

razzle · January 28, 2007 3:30AM

I'm taking a kid-friendly SQ album to get my grandson started in about two weeks. I've been "feeding" him some quarters in recent trips trying to spark an interest. His mother ( my daughter ) says he's showing some interest. It excites me that he may get into it.

All we need now is for 399,500,000 other grandfathers to do the same and we'll have a rarity! Maybe the Chinese will get interested?

raz

golddustin · January 28, 2007 3:41AM

Just take a look at the number of US quarter registry sets in progress right now. The total of 1999-present circulation strike sets and 1999-present proof sets dwarf any other series by quite a large number.

I don't think there is any question that the program created an awful lot of new collectors, and as testified on these boards (myself included) renewed that flickering ember of numismatics into a full blown flame!

anablep · January 28, 2007 4:16AM

I started collecting the silver proof sets and then stopped and sold them all. Used the profit to buy Morgans.

I just never looked at them nor liked them, even the silver proofs.

garsmith · January 28, 2007 4:18AM

<<Other than the first silver quarters set, the rest of the series seems to be weak.>>

They made more than just silver state quarters; wow where have I been

ziggy29 · January 28, 2007 4:20AM

I think the big money in a lot of the 2006 bullion issues killed a lot of the interest in buying rolls and bags of state quarters.

Still as fun and relevant as ever to collect out of pocket change and bank rolls, though.

HIGHLOWLEAVES · January 28, 2007 4:34AM

One Cent The Wisconsin Extra Leaf Statehood Quarters are Alive and doing well !! Mark.

66Tbird · January 28, 2007 4:53AM

I'm still doing a set of small bags for each. Sometimes I'll pick some bags up at face and search.them. Now I have a mighty heavy album of nice SQ's. I like the off centers best, but a high grade super clean hammer piece still holds its own.

smokinjoe925 · January 28, 2007 7:02AM

Well, my dad bought all of them when they came out from the mint and they are all silver... but i dont like new stuff. Although i do have the cardboard set of the first five and a bicentennial that is unopened and are all toning nicley.

Gemineye · January 28, 2007 10:40AM

<< Watch out for Hawaii. >>

I can't wait to rub the bikinis.......!!!.......

GoldenEyeNumismatics · January 28, 2007 11:09AM

people are losing interest in the new ones because they can't be found so easily in circulation.

foodude · January 28, 2007 11:21AM

f only we had commemorative cents!

... a different design for anyone (and their spouse too) that have served in Congress

Jdurg · January 28, 2007 11:23AM

A different design for anyone that Bill Clinton had sex with while in office? Or how about a different design for anyone one of the Bush Daughters had sex with while in office?

renman95 · January 28, 2007 12:48PM

<< Was the hobby really in such bad shape? >>

Absolutely!!

If it wasn't for the quarter program 1999 and the metals rising starting in 2002, and the likes of ebay, we'd be dead in the water like stamps or trading cards or beenie babies. Also, the Mint has helped with new products of late. What some fail to recognize is that there was no new generation to pick up the torch. Now there are countless new collectors delving into other "modern crap' and finally classics. Remember the crazy days when Wall Street wanted to control the coin market. It turned alot of people/investors/collectors off. There....I said.

jmski52 · January 29, 2007 2:13AM

I'm hoping for the 11th year just for my own amusement -- you know, the annually proposed, always-failed plan to commemorate four US Territories and Washington DC.

You would be looking at some real sleepers if they do that. And 50 years from now the Coin forum would be questioning if they are real coins, not just patterns that were minted in the back room by a couple of maintenance workers.

flaminio · January 29, 2007 2:29AM

<< ... a different design for anyone (and their spouse too) that have served in Congress

>>

How about presidential dogs? We could call them pooch pennies.

State Quarters...Are They Dead?

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