National Park Quarters

Because neither the customer nor us stopped to work it out at the time. We'd get someone in with a bunch of mint/proof sets, we would tell them we pay 10% back of bid. They'd say OK and we'd would total up the number of each date set times bid, add up the amounts and then pay 90% of the total. It wouldn't be till later that we would notice that due to the current bid prices we had actually paid less than face for some sets.

Sometimes when I was working up the deal I would notice that a set would be below face. When that happened I would point it out to the customer and give them the option of keeping them. Sometimes they did, sometimes they would just decide to go ahead and sell the whole deal.

 

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As a casual collector who is beginning to "specialize" I look forward to these new AtBQ U.S. Mint issues. I enjoy variety, especially since I value the art of the engraver. I respect the work of the earlier engravers but find the variety on the State Quarters and the AtB Quarters intriguing.
I do not collect with the primary goal of appreciation( I do enough of that in the stock market - not successfully! lately!) I am really beginning to focus on the U.S. Mint silver proofs.
just my p.o.v. !

 

And I respect you for having served in Vietnam. I concur on your p.o.v.

 

I am NOT going to collect the national park quarters. The idea has gotten stale, and I've been burned out from collecting the state quarters.

 

I'll collect them from pocket Change to fill a folder and get the Proof sets from the Mint Subscriptions...

Also, I was at Borders today and I picked up two of those Jumbo looking Folders that has the Map of the US on it (one for each of my Neices and Nephews4 and 5)... They love collecting coins... Everytime I come over they show me their latest find...

Also I get them each a Proof Set, Mint Set and a S.A.E. NGC MS69.... So, I figure I'll do it till they each reach about 20... I woulda liked it if an unncle or someone had done that for me....

 

Although I am disappointed big time that "Teddy" was not placed on this series, I'm still very excited about collecting them. I love the national park system, Ive been sleeping, playing, and enjoying them my whole life. 40 years of enjoyment and many more to come, give me a different outlook on them than maybe some other people.

My parents and grandparents turned me on to the outdoors very, very early in life. I have photos of me at 2yrs old camping with hippy looking parents in National parks on the East coast and in the South. I have many fond memories of the 1970's with bell bottoms running around with the other camp children in the Smokey mountains. Boy Scouts filled my needs for Park exposure in my pre-teens and teenage years. In my 20's and early 30's I spent tons of time in the back country of many of our California Parks. From snowboarding down the north face of Mt Lasson to the many of nights sleeping in my tent in Yosemite valley and Tuolumne Meadows resting from climbing all day. My wife got her 2nd bachelor degree in Shenandoah University right on the edge of the park in Winchester Virginia, what beautiful Autumns we enjoyed there. Now we have our own family and we are introducing the National Park system to them as my parents did me. My four and half year old has already played (carefully mind you) in the Colorado river at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and we are already planning our spring trip to Zion NP in Utah.

The other very important thing for me is that many of these coins will be representing important battlefields and other important US Historical sites. Think about this. Saratoga... our first significant American military victory of the Revolution. When I think of Fort McHenry National Monument, Im thinking our national anthem. I can't even put into words how I feel about the civil war parks, from Gettysburg to Vicksburg and the others that will be represented.

So for me the Park system is more that just a place, its really part of a Idea. Collecting these the National Park Quarters is much more than just a series of coins in my eyes. It is a small representation about the beauty of our country and the fact that these places are available for anyone to see and enjoy. In a way these coins will represent why I began to collect our US coins in the very beginning.

I am so sorry that these coins are not going to be received by everyone with the same emotion that I am placing on them. But rightly or wrongly this is how if feel about them.




My daughter after 2 hotel recovery days following her first adventure to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Do you like here ranger hat? She loves it.

 

+1 ! ! ! !
And yes, your Daughter and her Ranger hat are a priceless picture.
Make good memories while you can!

 

Ditto

I intend to acquire at least one each to go with my Gramps collection of brochures from the '30's of the parks we camped through.

 

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Bet you know Smokemont as well as I do.

My scout troop damned the creek there in the mid '50's so we could ride our air mattresses down a sloosh in the middle.

It was still there as of three months ago, our last visit.:smile

Wonderful photo and a promise for the future in that photo.

But I miss the days where you could hike all day and it was mostly your family and the mountains without standing in line or paying a fine for not having a permit to do something.

 

Maybe someone would rather keep the set together rather than break them up, even if it cost them a little bit?