Bicentennial Quarters

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My mother was one of these individuals who hoarded bicentennial quarters, for like 7 or 8 years, starting pretty much from the time they first went into circulation. She had overheard someone say that bicentennial quarters consisted of 40% silver. The part she didn't hear was that not all bicentennial quarters consist of 40% silver. So, she figured all bicentennial quarters consist of 40% silver. Her many years of hoarding these bicentennial quarters began, full-steam ahead. My mother's nature is to keep most motivational aspects of her decision-making processes secret/private. It was for this reason she didn't share with anyone what motivated her to hoard these quarters. It wasn't until the mid-80's when she finally learned that not all bicentennial quarters consist of 40% silver. Soon after learning this, she decided to roll them at home and slowly bring them all to the bank to exchange for paper currency. And that was that.

 

Now I see why…

 

Isn't it nice to have choices
Don't get me started on the nickels
OK a little back story, when the casinos first started and had coin in coin out machines I saved all the older than 1960 nickels.
I sorted them all by date and mint marks putting them in their respective containers.
12/15 years later I pulled the silver war nickels out and returned the rest to the wild.
I sold off the few rolls of war nickels for $1.25ea years later to someone at the coin club meeting and haven't looked back
I do have a few of the silver bicentennial sets and some random pieces but there comes a time when you can't keep everything.
How many safes does one need to qualify as a hoarder?

 

Times that by 4000, they get a little in the way.

 

lol!

 

My mother qualified without owning even one single safe. She did it with her 16 large metal Folgers coffee cans full of bicentennial quarters lined along the walls in her walk-in closet.

Interestingly enough, I did an online search and found this:

"Assuming 75% packing efficiency, 3,509 quarters worth $877.25 would fit into a one gallon jug."

Multiply that by 16 one gallon cans and that would come out to roughly $14,036.00. LOL, yeah, she bought a new Camero with the money after turning it into the bank for paper currency. Sounds about right for the price of a brand new Camero in the mid-80s.

 

lol! Yes! My dad’s were the glass jars.

 

Your mom sounds like me.... There was a point some years back that the kids in my church were collecting pull tabs. I don't remember what for, but it was some sort of way they were raising money. I jumped on board and picked up tabs off the street... Pulled them off cans in the garbage. I was all in and filled several large bags for them.... Once that fund raiser was over... I couldn't stop. It was like a danged virus I couldn't shake. After a garbage bag full of pull tabs, my wife laid down the law and I made myself quit.... But I still get the shakes when I see a pull tab.

 

lol!! We did that as well. Schools were collecting at one time.

 

For what reason were they saving pull tabs?

My uncle used to collect pull tabs off of every can of beer he drank. He'd make chains out of them and hang them in his bedroom. I was about two years old at the time that I remember seeing those in his room at my Grandparent's house. He's 15 years older than I am. So, this would have put him right around 17 years old at the time. I'm sure the "town dads" out in the farm communities of Nebraska, didn't mind, just as long as he wasn't out in public and driving while under the influence.

 

Proceeds made from recycling these tabs will go toward helping care for families staying at the House, while their critically ill child undergoes treatment. Ronald McDonald House, etc.

Proceeds made from recycling these tabs will go toward helping care for families staying at the House, while their critically ill child undergoes treatment.

 

Maybe I'm missing something, but, why just the pull tabs, why not the entire aluminum can?

 

Because of the room to keep them. Storage purposes. And cleansing them bringing into the schools etc.