# New Quarters **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 23, 2002, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689 "2002-03-23T07:34:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@Hilow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilow)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/1 "2002-03-23T07:34:05Z")
I read an earlier thread asking where the new dollar bills are and it led me to ask this question: Where are the new quarters? I live in Utah and so far I have seen a grand total of 5 Kentucky quarters and 1 Tennessee quarter. If a new quarter has been released after Tennessee I haven’t seen that one either. Are people really collecting these at such a rate that the new ones are never reaching wide general distribution or have I just been unlucky? ---
**Author:** ![conchita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@conchita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conchita)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/2 "2002-03-23T09:10:26Z")
I get new quarters all the time. In fact, nearly half of the quarters I get in change are the new ones. Maybe everyone in Seattle is spending their old quarters in Utah! ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/3 "2002-03-23T15:32:40Z")
I’ve gotten all of them so far, up to Tennessee. I’ve got to check what the next one to look for is (Ohio?) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/4 "2002-03-23T16:20:00Z")
Here in New Jersey, I get nothing but new quarters. I’m beginning to wonder how to avoid them. I want ONE of each to throw into my coin jar, but hundred’s of them. Yes, Ohio is next. ---
**Author:** ![Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caesar_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/5 "2002-03-23T22:15:02Z")
I see them all the time, as well. As others have said, about half the quarters I see are new quarters, and it’s only interesting now if it’s one of the newer ones. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/6 "2002-03-24T02:12:49Z")
I’m in the same boat as Hilow - To date, I’ve seen a total of four Kentuckys and one Tennessee - and Ohio is already out, according to [the mint’s website](http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/index.cfm?action=50_state_quarters_program). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/7 "2002-03-24T02:35:07Z")
Yep, Ohio is out. I live in MI and we get them somewhat regularly. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/8 "2002-03-25T03:02:27Z")
Since I use the vending machines at work each day and I use the bill changers, I get a lot of quarters as a result, but yet my luck with the last few states has still been dismal. I was doing pretty well with collecting the state quarters until Kentucky and Tennessee came out. It took me forever to get two Kentucky’s, and to date I only have one Tennessee. I’ll keep my eyes open for the Ohio quarters. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/9 "2002-03-25T03:16:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cmkeller \* > \*\*Ohio is already out, according to [the mint’s website](http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/index.cfm?action=50_state_quarters_program). \*\* JESUS…Ohio is frigging’ AWFUL! That astronaut thing is beyond doofusy. I’m so embarrassed I was BORN in that stupid state. As a native of Cleveland, I would have preferred a set of smokestacks, a kielbasa, or a blazing Cuyahoga. Thank god Indiana is worse. Is that supposed to be a race car or a dragonfly? Mississippi, on the other hand, is gorgeous…right up there with Tennessee and Connecticut, if not better. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/10 "2002-03-25T13:10:23Z")
When I have to get change for a $5 bill at work (quite often) at least a third of the quarters I get back each time are new ones. And I get the newest ones before a woman at work who collects them realizes they are out. I intentionally put them in the coke machines before she can ask me to check for them because I’m so tired of hearing about them. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/11 "2002-03-25T15:56:33Z")
All I get in change are new quarters, which really pisses me off because the vending machines in this dorm building don’t accept most of them. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-quarters/99689/12 "2002-03-26T05:13:43Z")
> [@](#): > > As a native of Cleveland, I would have preferred a set of smokestacks, a kielbasa, or a blazing Cuyahoga. A kielbasa? Naw… But how about a pierogi?