found this in my change today

bi quarter rear by kelli rene hartman posted Sep 6, 2023 at 6:37 PM

bi quarter front by kelli rene hartman posted Sep 6, 2023 at 6:37 PM

 

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Only worth .25.

 

I always enjoy finding these.

 

Me, too. I saved them all for about 25 years but finally quit hoarding them

 

We've gotten to the point where the Bicentennial coins are novelties in circulation. (To be fair, any Ike is a novelty in "circulation", and half dollars aren't the sort of thing you get from the self-checkout.)

Yours looks like it had an easy life. Glad you've rescued it! (I've gotten two in change in the last week or so, the first I'd come across in many months, but both of them had worked a LOT harder than yours.)

 

Nice to find them still in circulation. I find about 5 per year but I spend them.

 

Common as dirt around here, but still nearly 50 years old. Anything 50 or older is considered an antique...or so I was told when my mom owned an antique store in Humble, TX.

 

Just got one the other day. Had to do a double take, as I hadn't seen one (circulation) in ages.........

 

Nice to save as a lot of bicentennial are in nice shape from hoarding. It seems like everyone saved them. I used to save them too in the late 70's. I've seen friends save jar full of bicentennial quarters. Then finding out they are basically not worth more than face value. The trouble is the huge amount minted for circulation quarters is 1.6 billion for P and D's.

 

When I was a child, a beginning coin collector, I saved every single one of theses I

When I was a newby collector in the early 1990s, I loved these and saved EVERY one i came across. It's still a design I love today even though I moved over to world coins.

 

Out here in the San Francisco Bay Area I get them in my change at least once per week, sometimes even more. If I go to the local carwash and get $20 worth of quarters, guaranteed I'm walking away with at least 2-3 of them. It's gotten to the point that I only hold onto the really nice ones. The one in my avatar is a proof that I got out of the same carwash quarter machine a number of years ago.

 

Still not seeing that many of them here, but then again I don't handle much change.

Remember, everybody, only a couple of years until the big United States Semiquincentennial blowout -- with new circulating coin designs (including, if I remember correctly, a commemorative dime), and proposals for $25 gold and $2.50 silver commemoratives.

 

None of which will be in my collection.

 

I'm always interested to see new circulating designs.

And I'll look at the novelty commemoratives, the same way I can't stop myself from gawking at an accident scene as I drive past.

 

Just don't stop and pick up any of the pieces for your scrap plastic collection!

 

You're not the boss of me.

 

Very common here. I always find them in rolls.
Unless it is an S, or a silver (never found) I never kept them.

 

These coins are nice and I have one with me right now

 

Not necessarily, if you have a few hundred to a thousand.
They are selling for closer to $0.50ea on ebA.