I only have one of them. Looks like I need to spend a few dollars and just buy them but not from the mint.
I've found quite a few of Pauli Murray, Patsy Mink, and Mary Walker in circulation, all Denver. Celia Cruz I've only found 2 Denver-minted ones. Zitkala-Sa I haven't found in circulation, period, but I bought one from eBay to finish out my album I'm keeping for the AWQs. For some reason the last two quarters seem pretty rare in circulation.
I haven't seen any Celia Cruz. And very few Jovita Idar (rel. Aug 2023) also just a few Mary Alice Walkers. I do have a few of the ones that were just released last. A Native American woman who I never heard of and can't pronounce or spell her name. But those are in better condition than all my Jovita Idars and Mary Alice Walkers. I got the Rev Dr Paula Murray and Patsy Takemoto in good condition, but since then, I'm not getting any new ones on time. (In circulation.) I don't think we even got the Jov Idar in my area as I have only seen 5 in a year and a half, and mostly or all from rolls.
If you all are interested I posted to @Kevin Mader pocket change finds thread some of my recent finds. All my finds come from my change. I've never done CRH. I want to tho.
I see videos on this and the banks have to pay more than face value for a box of coins, which they sell at face value to the customer, who scans through the box and then dumps the coins at another location. I can only assume eventually this process is going to end up costing more than face value for rolls of coins (except maybe for business accounts, or very big money accounts that they are making a profit on.) So I just get 2 or 3 rolls of quarters when I am in there getting cash, and then I spend the quarters in the self serve grocery machines. Many years ago I did get a box of nickels, a box of quarters, a couple boxes of pennies. But there was a lot of work, the finds were minimal, and getting rid of all that change was an issue. So I only dabble now.
Thank you for the thread bump! The goal we had was to create a thread for the folks that don’t routinely CRH but do work their change. It’s meant for anything folks find interesting: old, new, foreign, unique in some way. Please enjoy it as you see fit. With greater activity, there’s more to see and read.
Interesting. When I CRH, I was hunting for variety cents and nickels. Of course, there were occasional old coins but largely about the varieties. Going through a few rolls a night was a couple of interrupted hours. Maybe 2-3 weeks to go through a box of each. My bank obliged without cost. Since then, I opened a business account only i haven’t been CRH in a long while. Things may have changed but I would hope that having both accounts would offset logistics for them. 12 or so boxes of each should be justified for an annual turn. Oh…and I re-roll everything.
One could always take the coins to a coinstar or such machine and get bills if getting rid of the change was an issue @Michael K The reason I have never CRH is that I do not have an account with a physical bank. Mine is online, which is a drawback.
