Critical, there’s no benefit in hoarding more than one of each, but I’m maintaining the collector’s book, or whatever it’s called. You know, the big cardboard map of the US, with slots for each state. All I need at the moment is New Jersey and North Carolina. And Kentucky, when it turns up. I’m doing this for sentimental reasons, not because I expect a huge payoff.
Remember the Liberty quarters in 1976? My maternal grandma saved dozens of them, wrapped into neat little squares of notepaper. :rolleyes: She was such a nitwit, her Alzheimer’s progressed, undiagnosed, for months before anyone realized she wasn’t just being normal for her.
I got a roll of Vermonts (Denver) when I went to the bank to get quarters. They’re still sitting there - I find that I don’t want to break the set.
I haven’t noticed a shortage of quarters - but I also still can’t seem to run across the Philadelphia state quarters. And I check. Every time. It’s like a conspiracy.
Er…yea. Of course, being a Vermonter, that’s kinda a gimmie.
I had a whole conversation with a friend of mine who is a New Yorker over them: “You get pretty trees and we get the Thruway. Brilliant.”
Cool quarter for a cool state. We have the only independant congressman and senator, we let everyone get married, (I don’t care what the state supreme court OR Howie says, I say married…) and we have easy access to Ben and Jerry’s. Home, sweet home!!!
To clarify - state quarters from the Philadelphia mint. Can’t find them. Denver mint, no problem - one’s with little "P"s on them are really really really elusive
Well, you see, there are 12 Federal Reserve Banks. The US Mint in Philadelphia ships “P” mint quarters to Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, New York.
The Denver Mint strikes a “D” mint quarter and ships it to St. Louis, Chicago, etc. Given enough time, and people travelling around the country, P and D quarters will travel. But it takes time. Sometimes years.