Another 10+ year quarter program

This may be old news to many of you, but fairly new to me...and I can't wait

http://nationalparkquarters.com/

With other design changes that are occurring with u.s. currency, 2010 sure is going to be exciting :high5:

 

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I'm glad somebody is excited about it. Many of us are getting worn out with new designs every few weeks. In 2009 not only will we have 5 new Quarters but we will have 4 new Lincoln Cents as well as 4 Presidential Dollars and 4 First Spouse series plus the Native American Dollar (thank goodness only one new design per year).

BTW, welcome to CoinTalk.

 

Man, for some reason I thought the Park set was only a year...

With all the coins and mints the darn Mint set will be like 75 peices...

 

welcome to the forum

 

Right on Hobo.

I did a nice set of state quarters - P/D, P/D Satin, Clad and Silver proofs.
Spent a lot of time going through rolls for decent examples - and still not happy with every one of the business strikes. Easier to find a needle in a haystack.

:loud: AAAAARGH! No more quarters for me! Done! Keep 'em! :loud:

Thanks for letting me rant 'n' rave!

At least the mint cut a lot of the "Disney Souvenir" type stuff going forward this year. So I guess I should give credit where credit is due.

 

I wished who ever they are would have stopped when the state quarters ended. Kind of made the state quarter program kind of unique but now, I am afraid it is just another quarter.

Love to See T.R on the parks program quarter but a lot of people would probably think it is some kind of foreign coin.

 

Nope minimum of eleven years, potentially for twenty two years.

 

I did the state quarters, MS coins, business strike only.
I'll include DC and the territories the same way.

For the Nat'l Parks I'll pick what I can out of circulation and maybe trade for the ones I can't find.
This just strengthens my philosophy of avoiding buying anything after 1964.

 

Mint is in the business

This seems strange to me that the US mint is doing these "special projects"
after living through the 1965-1967 era ....when they did away with the proof sets because they did not want to be in the'business'

 

I'm through with the specialty stuff, too. I think it detracts from the prospect of just having better looking coins.

I'm tired of presidents. Tired of them. Why not famous Speakers of the House? Presidents get too much credit anyway.

More to the point, actual human beings who do things substantial enough to get onto coins usually just don't look good. I like Frank Gasparro's old Liberty Head dollar design. The more figurative you get, the better looking the coin.

Time to drop Lincoln, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Washington, Kennedy. Let's have some artistic coinage.

 

I lost interest in the last 10 year programme about 2 years in. I never saved anything afterwards, and don't even look at quarters unless there might be one of the three leaf Wisconsins, or something silver.

 

Many of us will like it or not, collect the quarters no matter what we think of the program or each individual design. I'm one of them. I hope the series will one day get my daughter (or any other children I may have down the road) into this wonderful hobby. If nothing else these series, whether it be the prez. dollars, state quarters, or even the Lewis and Clark nickels may get the youth interested in history or geography. We can't expect the mint to please all of the people all of the time. And we certainly can't expect them to cater to just the coin collecting community, or we'd have talk of a wheat cent next year! The economy is in the crapper and I go from week to week wondering if I'll be layed off. I need to look at the bright side of my hobbies or they really don't do what they should: bring me satisfaction.

 

Wow, I'm actually surprised that most aren't looking forward to this new series.

I'm not a numismatist, nor am I a grizzled coin collector whom gathers such fine pieces that they need to be locked away out of the light and air and cannot be admired at whim, nor am I such a completist that I need to acquire every variation imaginable in every mintage and currency...I'm a fair weather hobbyist who collects some U.S. coins (indian-memorial cents, jefferson nickels, roosevelt dimes, statehood quarters, and sacagawea dollars by mintage), but I collect them because the coins either inspire me, or I get a charge out of owning a real piece of American history...it's fascinating to think that some of my coins may have traded hands amongst civil war soldiers, traded at trading posts by mountain men & indians throughout the old west, used to purchase one of the first automobiles, hoarded during the great depression, etc.

I think there are as many variations of types of collectors as there are coin variations. One thing I know for sure, this hobby is truly the hobby of kings, as you practically need to be as rich as one to afford it. But for me, the joy it brings, justifies the $$$$ spent (within reason of course). So for me be an admirer of nature, will hold this new series very dear.

-LTB

 

The mint is doing what the post office is doing, making so many products, I gave up on stamps because there were so many, now too many coins come out, expensive to buy so many coins that come out every year. I like the spouse gold coins, but don't have money. For the quarters, there are regular strike, satin finish, and proof. Running out of room to put them. I think I have the state quarters, also only look for the rare varieties now when I have the money.

 

Welcome to Canada we have sets coming out and single coin designs in business strike every year ..... If i were to pull out pocket change , I would certainly have 80% special designed coins,,, kinda sucks if you ask me

 

And I thought that was a joke when Canada started doing it back in the early 1990's with the provincial 25 cent coins. The RCM makes some nicely made material, but they crank it out like gangbusters and have dulled the sensation of wanting to collect the stuff. I did the provincial 25 cents, and the Millennium ones, but after that I lost interest. Even when I get them in change I don't even look at them anymore.

 

Well, the good thing about the State Quarters program is it built a lot of general public interest with young and old who were not coin collecting previously.

That being said... I talked to one major local Gold and Silver Bullion dealer who said after 10 years of doing the quarters... they are done. Recently they took all the Presidential Dollars they had on hand and deposited them at the bank! LOL He said it was too much space and hassle to deal with.

So, obviously, some dealers are not as interested in these large programs as they were before. However, the public interest remains to be seen I guess.

Regards,
Michael

 

im tired of quarters

 

Interesting, and maybe partially to do with the economy souring, people might have more interest in getting by than collecting these ridiculous mint products of late.

 

Not to mention 1964 when legislation was actually introduced to outlaw coin collecting. Was going to make it illegal to sell any coin for more than its face value.