In my painstaking search for the new 250 year semiquincentennial privy marked quarter I came across these few keepers. Spoiler: None of the keepers were the target of my search My helper is Pinot. Glued to my hip. My travel companion. Found a couple of circulating proof quarters. The 1978-S is a cameo. The reverse is a lot better condition than the obverse. This 2019-S Lowell, MA isn't in great condition, but its found a home here. And then there's this juke box quarter. Not necessarily a keeper, but for the exorbitant price of 25 cents, I think it's worth it for the novelty.
I have gone to several banks around my area in Maine and no one has any new quarters. The tellers tell me lots of people are asking about them. It nearly drives me mad seeing how expensive the privy marked quarters are going for. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to find one in circulation.
Nice finds. Pinot is cute! Call the doggie, A "Simplistic security team member". They look cute but their bite is ferocious. Our dog is the mailman, FedEx and UPS alert system. He goes crazy when they "fly" by our house.
Not a single bank has seen the new quarters in my area. I had to buy them along with the dines, nickels and halves at a higher price than they should be. I don’t buy from the mint but they are out of stock when they send a text to buy them. Ridiculous!!!
Yeah... I was blown away when a guy pulled 120 out of two boxes. If he sold them for $400 a piece, that would be $48,000.
815?!!! I suppose I will end up buying one in a year when the price settles! If the mint mixed them up like this, I am guessing I will never see one in the wild. Wow.
Not if you find them in a CoinStar or a self-checkout return slot. Or steal them from someone else's change.
Got a July 4 quarter. Not at all impressed with the quality. Especially the rim, and it looks like a weak strike. Call it an expensive carnival token. (Par for the current circus) A rush job by the mint in my opinion. Well it is what it is.
Bought it on Flea Bay. Quite a few for sale, seems some sellers came across a few. I have ngc and pcgs accounts, not sure if it is worth sending. (Has bag marks) 250,000 is like the 1916d dime at 264,000. However they probably were not advertised. Plus 110 years is long time to wait for ?
The guy who found over 800 of them is a moron. Whether he is giving them away or selling them (let's say they are listed currently at $75) that's $60,000. If you were to keep the hoard of AU/MS 800+ coins intact from a mintage of 250,000 in a few years that's hundreds of thousands of dollars and in 20 years, even with inflation, it's a million dollar hoard. Once you break up the hoard, it never existed. In this case the value of the whole, is worth more than the sum of it's parts. It's not even a once in a lifetime thing. Thousands of people could spend their life and never have something like this fall into their lap. He will be known as the fool who broke up a million dollar hoard for nothing. (As he says he is giving them away on his YT channel.)
The whole thing, from the distribution to the quality is odd. Coin collecting isn't the biggest hobby, most people who might find one in circ will probably not even notice it. And probably not going to buy one, even for $10.00.
I remember seeing the red painted ones years ago. I forget the story surrounding them. I have not seen any for quite a while.
As I recall the red paint on coins was done to mark silver backing the 1960’s so people wouldn’t spend it. Then clad coins were painted for numerous uses in vending machine’s.
They're referred to as juke box quarters for this reason.... Establishments, ie: bars, restaurants, amusement centers (pinball, skeeball, roller rinks, etc), pizza shops, and the like, typically didn't own the juke box. There would be a vending company that consigned the use of the juke box to the proprietor. If the place had customers and no music playing the business owner would encourage the customers to put their quarters in by first 'getting the party started' and inserting 'house quarters painted red' to play songs. When the owner of the juke box came to empty the machine and collect his bounty he would separate the red quarters and return them to the proprietor outside their 50/50 split. Or whatever percentage they agreed upon. Those red quarters became known as juke box, or house quarters. It dates back to the 1950's. No additional value. Just a cocktail party piece of trivia.
