I don’t have the map, but a special quarter book for just the state quarters. I keep it under the little bowl I use to keep my change from falling between sofa cushions.
Uh, I hope you’re wrong here – about the 50 states being disposed of, that is!
The reasons that some people in some locations seems to get the latest state quarter in timely fashion has to do with the demand for quarters in your Federal Reserve area.
If you are in, say, Akron, Ohio, your local banks get their quarters from the Cleveland Federal Reserve(although the actual transport, rolling, etc. has been subcontracted to Brinks).
If this month there is a huge influx of quarters into the Cleveland Fed. Reserve, producing an oversuppply, then, when the Philadelphia Mint calls Cleveland to ask if they need more quarters, the answer is “no.” So the Philly mint doesn’t ship any Iowa quarters to Cleveland.
On the flip side, to coin an expression, an area which seems to always need lots of change is Florida. It may have to do with the tourist biz. So, my spies tell me that you can usually get the latest state quarter rather quickly after release if you live in Florida.
Our coin shop buys about $100,000. worth of each coin as it comes out. We have to pay extra to find them, and have them delivered. Usually, we get them through middlemen who have a brother-in-law who knows a guard at Brinks, who tells his barber when they physically arrive at the local Fed(which varies, from quarter to quarter). 
I think that you won’t see Wisconsin til much later this year. The mint has been running behind on all of the coins for the year.
Usually with most US coins, and I can’t tell you what the case is with the new state quarters, no letter at all as a default is from Philadelphia as it’s the more prolific mint.
That was the case until about 1982. Since then, the Philly mint has added a “P” to their products. With the exception of the cent.
And, it didn’t have to do with it being more “prolific.” The only US mint for the first 40+ years was the Philadelphia mint. So, there was no need for a mintmark.
Didn’t know that! No one sent me the memo, and pennies probably reinforced that impression. Do you know if this is also the case for foreign coins? I know the mint contracts out to other western hemisphere countries.
On the Philly Mint:
I figured thats what the first poster was getting at.
I started on my collection with my parents, and had to tell my mom that you couldnt simply put one state quarter “Above or below” (Which space was reserved for which mint location) but I think we have one or two Quarters that are indeed in the wrong mint location…thankfuly not in the wrong “state”. :eek: Very hard to remove (if even doable) a “locked” coin in the traditional coin folders.
I tend to agree with the OP, later coins seem to be harder to find, yet the original (1999 was it?) 4 are spent just as soon as I go through the “already have it” check list.
A final note on the “turning around without accidentaly buying” one of those coin maps. These so easily where hand picked designs for the masses, who follow the fads durring the peak of the phenomenon… I asked my self on virtualy each one I saw… “Where is the place for the other mint’s coin” ?
I haven’t seen any Iowas yet, but have seen Florida and Texas quarters. Almost all the quarters out here have been Denver mint. I haven’t seen many Philadelphia quarters.
My mom gave me one a year or so ago, and I’ve been using it to store and keep track of the quarters I have, and of what I need to look for next. I only got Texas a few weeks ago, and have not seen an Iowa yet.
Of course I was referring to Phildelphia the mint (as opposed to the Denver mint.) There used to be a San Francisco mint also.
I see lots more P quarters when I go East. My book has spaces for both Denver and Philadelphia coins, convenient because you can show both faces.
There’s still a San Francisco mint. That’s where proof coins are minted. (FYI, there’s a mint at West Point too.)