Question? How much is a full state quarter coin set worth?

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by zezima6, Apr 2, 2009.

  1. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    Oh sorry I guess I just got caught in the moment cause I thought the web was always right hey do you anything about. The lewis and Clark being on the back of a nickle
     
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  3. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    What do you mean you all ignore me one question what about the wolve and turtle being on sacawagia even though we all know its not
     
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  4. jonny oneal

    jonny oneal Member

    The State Quarters program did a lot to generate interest in the Mint, but as an investment a collection, unless silver proofs, will be worthless. I see state quarters everyday that appear to have been removed from collections and put into circulation. I mean, they are BU at minimum, have mint luster, few bags marks and look just as good as they did when first issued. Perhaps the ATB Program will do better when it concludes after the apocalypse because the mintage numbers are much lower and there are some I have not even seen. The u.s. mint, as it usually does, mints too many coins in most programs, even silver eagles, to make them valuable in the long run. Take your quarters and invest in Apple.
     
  5. BooksB4Coins

    BooksB4Coins Newbieus Sempiterna

    No, Matty... it is not "rare", at lease in the sense you've implied. Such coins, not just Rhode Island, are simple novelties designed and marketed to part the uninformed from their money; nothing more and nothing less. Now if this, or any other coin came to you as a gift from family, or perhaps you collected them together, this does not mean they are worthles.... to you (in fact they could, and perhaps should be priceless) but just because they may be valuable to you, this does not make it so in the general sense. To someone without the sentimental attachment, such coins can hold little interest and no above-face value.
     
  6. JPeace$

    JPeace$ Coinaholic

    Yes. It's also refered too as the Keelboat. I actually just bought one in PF69 UC. I thought it was a cool design.

    Business strikes for the coin were over 700,000,000.
    They made 1.7M proof sets with the Westward Journey Nickels and another 1.2 million were included in the silver proof sets.

    None are rare.
     
  7. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    Is anything god dang world rare god dang
     
  8. JPeace$

    JPeace$ Coinaholic

    There are even Ancient coins that can't be considered rare.

    Like Books said, the coins still may be valuable to you. That is not meant as a slight. I have framed coin collections that were purchased for me by my grandfather. They mean a whole lot to me, even though their numismatic value is low.
     
  9. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    Cool thanks for all the help you guys
     
  10. JPeace$

    JPeace$ Coinaholic

    We have all had learning curves when starting out in this hobby. Some of the most valuable lessons I learned involved buying overpriced coins. Education is one key element to the hobby.

    Stick around and have fun!
     
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  11. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    Well did you know there was a ship that wrecked in the bottom of the sea in Tampa bay Florida and the contained old coins that are very hard to find
     
  12. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    Yeah me to I found a site that had valuable and precious metal coins real gold .999 and 1\2 ounce gold coins I was going to get some but they where a thousand dollars about but send them back in and you'll only get 999.00 dollars back
     
  13. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

    What?
    Yes.
    There is always going to be a premium on gold, that's how the dealers stay in business.
     
  14. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    Oh OK and you have heard of it so I'm not stupid do you think those coins that a ship wrecked in tampa bay Florida's ocean are rare
     
  15. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

    Funny thing is that most of those coins that they found were considered rare before they flooded the market with tens of thousands of them. Now they are easily found if you can afford them.

    Rare is very subjective. This coin that was my avatar for a while comes from a mintage of only 25 pieces and is one of only about 12 known to exist. This nickel took me years to find. It is rare, but how many people are tying to find one? image.jpg On the other hand, many people consider 09-S VDB rare even though it had a mintage of 484,000. I don't consider it rare because there are hundreds if not thousands available for sale at any given time.
     
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  16. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    What nickel the keelboat or what nickel are saying is rare and what's the coins name of your avatar
     
  17. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    I am trying to
     
  18. Kirkuleez

    Kirkuleez 80 proof

    It is a J-1671 pattern liberty nickel.
     
  19. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    Oh ok
     
  20. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    Does any have a v nickel theyd like to trade☺
     
  21. matty 440

    matty 440 Member

    Do you have a v nickel you'd like to trade
     
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