i findly got around to filling a state quarter book .it has 1 spot for each state .i found them all but alabama.my question,is alabama a low and hard to find mintage?
Both the Alabama P and D mint marks are about the same as most of the other state quarters. P's are about 2.25 million and D's are about 2.32 million. The problem with those books is that they only have one spot for each state and you have to choose between the P or the D.
Wouldn't silver proof tarnish no matter how hard you try to preserve them unless they have air tite slots which I really doubt?
Air-Tite does make a state quarter album that holds them inside Air-Tite's, but even then there's a small chance they might tone. Of course they might do the same thing in the original holder.
What type of book is that? If it's a folder type where you push the coins into a slot with your fingers, they will soon enough be worthless. Since the advent of the state quarters there are numerous organizations creating folders, booklets, etc cheaply made with unknown glues just to make the money now. Mostly you will never see those companies again. The process is to glue a sheet of hard paper, slap slotted cardboard pieces on that and allow to dry. Now that glue is in the back of those slots and not real nice for the coins. Of course just about standing on the coins to get them in is another story. I suggest you purchase a decent Album like Dansco or Whitman. Whitman makes a Quarter Album with as many pages as you want. You can decide if you want all P's, P's and D's or even the Proofs. Whitman makes and sells separate pages and press on lettering and numbering to add to the bottom of the slots for the coins. Of course not as cheap as a folder but lots and lots better.
my book is from the dollar store. you press the quarters in.i had about a half of quart of state quarters and wanted to see if i could fill it.next i will get a better album for p&d.thanks for letting me know about the cheap folders ruining the coins.when i try to fill the album will there be any that will be hard to find.?
As I noted folders are for amateurs or kids that don't know better. As you said you have to press the coins into those slots. Your finger or thumb print may be there as a permanent reminder of what not to do. The reason crime labs can find finger prints is your body is loaded with oils and acids. Your fingerprint is just that. If you watch change enough you'll see many coins with someone print embedded on it. If you watch change enough you'll see coins with stipping on the reverse. Those were in folders and the glue as I mentioned is swipped on those pages and that is the results on the coins. One person I know actually uses a rubber malet to get the coins in those slots. Some manufacturers make the slots just a lttle to small. As to any being hard to find, that all depends on how high a quality you want. Almost any of them will be available in change eventually. This state quarter thing is like the Bicentennial quarters. Way back then everyone hoarded them and now are dumping them back into change due to no coin value. Same will soon happen with the state ones.
Well, I can't let that go by. We're not all museum curators, nor do we want to be. There's more than one way to skin a cat and there is certainly more than one way to collect coins. I don't know, but I wish like heck that my grandfather had given me an album of coins where I could still see his fingerprint on some of them and maybe some stray pocket lint. I did get an old violin from him that is in absolutely terrible condition. On the back of it, he scratched the date he finally scraped enough money together to buy his own. Simply priceless. To each his own.....
