Is anyone getting tired of the quarters programs?

Went through 11 years of the State and territories program, then on to the National Park Quarters which won't end until the end of 2021. Is anyone else burned out on them besides me? I still keep collecting them as I feel I should complete the whole set, but it's a pain. At least the Presidential Dollars will end after this year, even temporarily.

 

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I would say for non-numismatists, it's a neat, gimmicky way to engage the public. There's a bit of the "Oh wow, look!" factor. For collectors, it has to be overwhelming. Between all the branch mints, proofs, die varieties, errors, and more... you figure there are nearly fifty quarters for many years. And I hate to be pessimistic, but I don't see any long term value in these modern types.

On the other hand, for a young numismatist, these offer a great, inexpensive way to enter the hobby. Most can be had for face value in circulating change.

 

I only collect the business strikes, no proofs, varieties, or errors for me. More

 

The major problem is the appeal has worn off for the non collectors as well. When they first came out everyone went out and got the new state quarter. Now most of my friends don't even realise that they've changed to national parks.

 

My little brother brought me a saratoga quarter when he was visiting because he had never seen one. I promptly explained the atb program then showed him both 5oz versions and he was floored. So I agree that it's bringing new blood into the hobby. That's for sure, and a good thing. I'm just glad I don't collect moderns save special issue speculation of coarse

 

I only collect the one silver proof quarter for my state. Never really gave it much thought on the rest. Maybe if they come out with a 200 year anniversary quarter for IL in 2018 (at least for the half dollar or commemorative dollar - they BETTER!).

Now that you mention it... if I get bored of collecting other, older US silver types, I may dabble in some silver state quarters. I'll probably pick up a Delaware right now because you gave me that idea lol.

 

Never touched them. Not weary.

 

I save the stuff like the Mt. Rushmore with the double on Jefferson's nose, the Alaska with the extra bear claw.

 

I'd bet that the average person on the street still couldn't recite from memory the names of all the states.

Perhaps Congress, in all it's infinite wisdom, will enact legislation for a new quarter design to replace the National Parks Quarters........"Streets of the United States". That way, they won't have to fool with it for a couple of centuries.

Chris

 

Main St. and State St., ad infinitum.

Maybe vice presidents should get their spotlight in some small way like on the quarter's reverse.

 

The series lost its luster long ago - which goes doubly true, both figuratively and literally, for the Presidential dollars. So pun only slightly intended. Most of the parks are probably obscure to people outside of the respective state or bordering states and there's no way to incorporate them into those little devices that happen to make phone calls that everyone carries around like an extra appendage.

I have really liked some of the designs of the series and I have grabbed a few decent looking specimens from circulation, but I'm in no way enthralled by them.

In one of the few references I've witnessed to the series in the general public, a co-worker came up to me one day and said "somehow I got a Chinese coin in change, look, it has a dragon on it." He then held up an Everglades ATB quarter. He was joking, of course, but so far this is the only time anyone has spoken to me of this series.

The state quarters were a novelty because American change had remained mostly static for decades. The novelty seems to have pretty much worn off for the general public by now, unfortunately.

 

"Tree Streets".........Oak, Maple, Cherry, Sycamore, Willow, Cedar, Aspen, etc.

"Waterway Streets"........Atlantic, Pacific, Mississippi, Caloosahatchee, Potomac, etc.

"City Streets"..........

"Car Streets"..........

etc.

etc.

 

There are thousands of streets named Main St. and State St., so we could make a coin to honor the name Main St. and State St. It's a staple of US cities and towns. It's un-American not to be redundant with street names!

And, there are apparently over 10,466 streets named Main St., so we can assign a quarter for each of those lol.

 

I'm pretty burned out with them. I have been getting many new ones in change. I just give them a quick glance and throw them in my change jar.

They feel like the older eagle reverses, a norm even if it is a new reverse.

it doesn't help the relief of the coins are pretty flat and don't have much life to them like old silver washingtons have. I love the high relief of those compared to now.

 

My point is that by making a quarter for a single street name, and then another, and then another, Congress wouldn't have to screw up the works. One quarter for Main Street and one quarter for State Street is sufficient. I'd imagine there are tens of thousands of other street names that most of us don't even know about.

Chris

 

Yeah, I wish they made all coins with much higher reliefs than today's coins - higher reliefs are always nicer, and that's not my only qualm with moderns... The one state quarter I have is a silver proof deep cameo, which isn't even as high a relief as the 1964 or 1976 proof quarters; but the cameo appearance accents the relief better than the business strike version. IMHO, if one's collecting coins for their visual appeal, deep cameo proof is the only way to go - may as well go silver, too.

 

lol yes, I understood that point. I was just thinking that with all of the year-to-year redundancies in coin design (e.g. 1931-1998 quarters are virtually all the same designs minus 1976), and the repeated street names, we may as well just don the same street names on our quarters year after year. Bad joke lol.

 

I found this in the change given to me from a store. Of course I check all coins I get as change and I've never ran across the "D" being micro errored. I save all of my 65s and earlier (the silver content) and this is the first.
I have looked at it pretty close with an eyeglass and it appears to have been made like this (by dye) because none of the other letters have anything wrong with them indicating alteration. Not even as a "wear and tear" (so to speak) The cut around the "D" is smooth and makes it look like a "B" even up close.

Sorry so long, but I'm excited about this find.

 

I like them just because they may have that one year or die variety that makes them collectible I know lots do not even know about the 1886 Indians or 1970 dates in pennies let alone quarters...I think the sad thing is that kids have no interest except in the silver they can get cash for, because they are more interested in XBOX games....Now that Bitcoin is traded physical coins will just disappear http://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin...s-ok-to-become-public-bitcoin-fund-1425242094

 

I like them just because they may have that one year or die variety that makes them collectible I know lots do not even know about the 1886 Indians or 1970 dates in pennies let alone quarters...I think the sad thing is that kids have no interest except in the silver they can get cash for, because they are more interested in XBOX games....Now that Bitcoin is traded physical coins will just disappear http://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin...s-ok-to-become-public-bitcoin-fund-1425242094