Every bicentennial coin was worse than the original design

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• oxy8890 Posts: 1,416 ✭

  October 2, 2008 12:57PM

  

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• Bayard1908 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭✭

  October 2, 2008 12:58PM

  
  
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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 2, 2008 1:01PM

  What brought this on? Looking at some bicentennials?
  
  It's still fun to get a drummer boy quarter every now and again.

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• Bayard1908 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭✭

  October 2, 2008 1:05PM

  
  
  << <i>What brought this on? Looking at some bicentennials?
  
  It's still fun to get a drummer boy quarter every now and again. >>
  
  
  
  I just learned that my parents have been saving some for the last 32 or 33 years. Should they be spent or is there a market for them?

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• BlackBeard Posts: 1,064 ✭

  October 2, 2008 1:12PM

  Uncirculated or proof I would save. Circulated clad, I would spend. That's just me, some people save them but I don't see them having any significant value in the near future.

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• 19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭

  October 2, 2008 1:39PM

  
  
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  << <i>What brought this on? Looking at some bicentennials?
  
  It's still fun to get a drummer boy quarter every now and again. >>
  
  
  
  I just learned that my parents have been saving some for the last 32 or 33 years. Should they be spent or is there a market for them? >>
  
  
  
  It all depends upon grade.

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• richbeat Posts: 2,288 ✭

  October 2, 2008 1:42PM

  To each his/her own. I happen to like the quarter reverse design, the only one of the three I like.

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• BillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭

  October 2, 2008 2:21PM

  I save every one I get if they are not moldy. I do it as a tribute to my dad, who saved every one. When I found one of his "secret stashes" in April it is what made me get really into coins-among the items in the box were 5 Peace Dollars, one Morgan, a handfull of Mercury dimes-and about 25 BiCentennial quarters! I'm up to 33 now.
  
  One of these days I'll buy myself a silver set.

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• RWB Posts: 8,082 ✭

  October 3, 2008 1:56AM

  Many older people started saving bicentennial circulation coins. They were the first commemoratives most had seen, and the simple designs connected directly with childhood images.

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• tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

  October 3, 2008 2:20AM

  
  
  I just learned that my parents have been saving some for the last 32 or 33 years. Should they be spent or is there a market for them? >>
  
  
  
  
  
  ..................use them at the laundromat.

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• Coinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 3, 2008 2:20AM

  My sister-in-law saved a bowlful of bicentennial quarters, and was very disappointed to hear that they had no premium today.

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• pendragon1998 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭

  October 3, 2008 2:23AM

  I've got a little blank quarters whitman folder almost filled with circulated clad bicentennial quarters. I have no idea what compells me to save them, but every one I get goes in there.

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• sumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭

  October 4, 2008 7:42AM

  I just got one the other day. I don't really like the design all that much but they do remind me of when I first started collecting so I like seeing them in circulation from time to time.

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• garsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭

  October 5, 2008 3:08AM

  This thread is meaningless with out pics

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