Statehood Quarters - Arrrrrrrrgh!!!

I've been bringing my Washington quarter collections up to date with all the P, D, S, and SMS coins and I just realized how much I really hate statehood quarters. Instead of needing 4 quarter for a certain year, I now need 20. It's incredible how many Whitman album pages you fill with just statehood quarters. I feel like it's making a dent in my other collecting interests. I will be glad to be done with these sets. I have really lost interest in this series and now feel like I am weighed down until they are completed. How sad for me.

Anybody else reluctantly collecting them with gritted teeth or do you find it more rewarding in some way?

 

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Sorry you're experiencing these feelings. I still thoroughly enjoy my state quarters. Doing PDSS.

 

i take all the state quarters i get and throw 'em in a box, there they have sat since 1999, and it keeps getting bigger I dont like them much, but cant help myslef from throwing/dropping/tossing them into the old box....

 

My problem is we are making these books for the grandchildren. Well we thought there were only going to be 4...we now have 6....so I need to make 2 more whole sets and fill in the sets of the other 4 with those that I am missing.

Big task...but worth it as its for the kids.

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Thanks

 

I'm putting together three sets with all the coins going back to 1932. The previous owner, my father-in-law, had already collected 3 sets of everything through 1980 and then died. I just have to update from 1981 to the present and it just seems laborious.
The 1981 through 1998 was fun but once I got to the statehood quarters things slowed down considerably. I guess that is what is putting me off. I like the feeling of completing collections and these quarters are really delaying that goal. I'm good through 2001 minus the 15 1999-2001 proofs. 2007 seems like a long way off. The sad part is that I have them in proof sets and I just don't want to open them.

 

Moen, my pet peeve with the State quarters is now likely that it may continue another year, kill it and the Sakajawea they have no reason to exist anymore.

They are now both products of the US Mint, "Special interests" and political correctness.

It is sad and unfortunately expensive if you want to finish a collection that had an end date.

As for the Sak, that one has two special interest groups ralling around it. Mind you we have a NEW dollar program released and underway with no sign of the Sak ever ending.

The mint is looking more and more like the RCM.

 

I have to agree with you on the state quarters. I wasnt even going to get into them but figured that my Washington set would not be complete with all the State stuff. So I have put together one set. Still missing a few of the silver proofs which I think are grossly overpriced. 1999, 2001...

 

when the State Quarters came out, i thought long and hard about whether to collect them. i saw that many "non-collectors" were collecting them by the ROLL! this turned me off to them simply because there will always be a glut of these coins. the high production numbers, the high rate of collection, and the shear number required to do a complete set - 220 coins. i'll wait 10 years and pick up a 220 coin set for just a tad more than face value/spot on the silver and be done with it - someone else got to do the assembling and i get a decent set for cheap.

of course my son has been collecting them from circulation - 1 coin per and is having fun with it. he needs only South Dakota and Washington to be up to date.

i'm putting my efforts to building up 20th century silver sets. they will just climb and climb and climb, i think.

-Steve

 

I have friends in the same sinking boat as you. They have so many albums going (for themselves and grandchildren, etc.) that they aren't getting close to completing anything. And this is why I personally don't callect every mint mark type of every coin, such as the quarters. Stop trying to fill holes. Don't try to get one of every coin ever made. Come to the "type" side and you will enjoy it much more IMHO.

 

Sam, once you've gone dark, you tend to park. Probably very good advice but all my other sets have one example of each mint mark, variety, and special collectable. I wish I were just filling holes. I put extra pages in the back of my books for the varieties and the SMS coins if the book doesn't have places for them. I'm really addicted. I also won't break up proof sets to fill holes so I buy everything individually even if I already have it in a proof container. Is there no end to this madness...

But seriously, I am not looking forward to the presidential dollar coins. Imagine the varieties, the gold first lady coins and the mass errors that are going to be upcoming. I might have to get a job or worse sell one of the kids.

 

O.K. I caught a break. I was going through all my sets of proofs and realized back in 1999 I accidentally bought 3 sets of statehood quarters rather than the 11 coin sets I usually buy. So I had all of the 1999 proofs I needed already for all three sets. Sometimes you just get lucky-stupid in life.

 

I love the statehood quarters. I collect them with my kids but our collection is based upon coins in ciruclation. Which is good and bad. The good is that they get excited and check every quarter they come across to see which state it is and if it is one that they need. The bad is we live in a place where it takes time for quarters to be circulated, southwest florida, and I mainly use plastic anyway.

Tried the bank thing but everytime I get there they are cleaned out of new quarter rolls.
Horders, gosh darn it.

 

My three boys collect their sets also. They do not collect all the mint marks just one example of each design. I am putting together a set of every quarter from 1932 on which obviously includes all the statehood quarters for each of them. It was going along nicely until I got to 1999. I guess that is what has me frustrated by this series.

 

O.K. if you are considering putting together a P,D, and S mint mark set of Washingtons, know this. From 1932 to 1990 there are enough quaters in the set to fill 1 Whitman 9122 Classics Album with seven pages that contain a total of 30 holes per page. That's reasonable considering you are covering 58 years.

Then, when you begin to fill the Whitman 9123 Clasics Album that runs from 1991 to the present, you also need seven pages just to get part way through the 2007 coins. Thats the same number of coins in the first album in the span of 17 years. The Statehood quarters are really page-pigs to say the least. Be warned.

 

I suppose the increasing number of coins to buy is impossible to stop.

I've seen the same thing happen to two other hobbies I have dabbled in - stamps and sports cards.

Just check out the hundreds of different items that you can buy from the post office this year alone. And I must admit, some of it is kinda cool, but you just can't keep up.

And the 1990's killed Sports Cards - the companies were literally printing cardboard money and collectors were left holding the 3-ring binders. There were so many things to collect and so little time...

In both cases, you're not really collecting - you're amassing or hoarding. And of course, any hope of an "investment" goes out the window - after all, how many different versions of a state quarter will people be willing to buy 10, 20 or 70 years from now.

Over the weekend, I saw the HSN Coin show -they were selling Washington Dollar error coins in bulk.

The end is near............

 

Moen1305,what does 'SMS' mean?

Aidan.

 

Silver Mint Set.

 

Thanks for clarifying that.Is it an Unc. set or a Proof set?

Aidan.

 

They are Silver proofs.

 

Thank you.I had thought they were Unc. like those U.S. 1976 Independence Bicentenary silver Unc. medal-coins that crop up from time to time.

Aidan.