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<p>[QUOTE="WashQuartJesse, post: 3114094, member: 18323"]A June 5th purchase of an MS64 1932-D completes my 212 coin Washington Quarter (1932-1998) collection. My goal with this album was to acquire every date and mintmark for all business strike and proof issues. In <i>A Guide Book of Washington Quarters,</i> Q. David Bowers suggests that “a set such as the preceding is extensive and impressive.” This sounded like an intriguing “quest” so I put my best efforts forward to assemble it (minus the State Quarters) in a distinguished fashion. This album was completed one coin at a time. WQ’s have been my sole focus since I began working on its completion. It has taken me over a decade, to do so. I decided that all coins would need to meet my standards and also did everything possible to ensure all were original surfaces. The set is inconsistently consistent, meaning that every coin seems to “fit” but there’s no blast white or all toned, consistency.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be too much for me at the moment to convey or express the persistence, dedication, and patience granted to this set or the amount of fulfillment, memories, and experience I’m currently actualizing upon its completion. My hope was to share all of this with Coin Talk immediately, but I am going to refrain at the moment and try to keep this as a living thread. My photos don’t quite capture each coin’s qualities or flaws. Hopefully, they offer you some sense of what this album is and highlight my journey. Many of these were replaced five or six times and it often took multiple rolls of certain dates to find an example that I could accept. The best examples of my own discerning tastes and this sort of persistence are found within the business strike clad issues and more common date silvers. These were almost entirely, obtained raw, and many took years and years of in-hand examination to make this album. I feel very strongly that I was able to acquire some truly phenomenal coins but definitely skipped a meal or two back then, for doing so. This was not because I paid a premium, it’s because a dollar and some change was often… all I had to my name.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’d like to thank so many of the old school dealers who allowed me to sift through their inventory. Two of them stand out the most. The first was a local B&M that had multiple BU and Proof rolls of clad quarters on hand. He used to let me cherrypick through them and never charged me more than the lowest of prices. I picked up exceptional business strike coins here for under a dollar and proof’s were not much more. The second was an old school dealer I visited with at a show who actually still possessed the remainder of an old BU dealer roll of a 1940’s semi key. This experience not only allowed me to choose the best example, but it allowed me to realize why a collector should never settle. I had been actively searching for this particular date and mintmark for over a year. Like most I’ve encountered, this dealer was a true gentleman. Despite our sixty year age difference, we hit it off immediately when I described to him what I was attempting to accomplish. His own son once embarked on this same journey.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Excluding</i> all of the duplicates, rolls, un-cracked slabs, replacements, etc… my records suggest the set cost me $10,811.09 to assemble. That may sound insane to some of you (for a bunch of quarters), but I could never put a price on what I’ve taken away from this. Much of that is because of some of you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, here it is Coin Talk. Please enjoy! I plan to add more photos from time to time.</p><p><br /></p><p>- WashQuartJesse</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s118.photobucket.com/user/bugchucka/media/Slide1_zpsbmghcelq.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s118.photobucket.com/user/bugchucka/media/Slide1_zpsbmghcelq.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o106/bugchucka/Slide1_zpsbmghcelq.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s118.photobucket.com/user/bugchucka/media/Slide1_zpsbmghcelq.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s118.photobucket.com/user/bugchucka/media/Slide1_zpsbmghcelq.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://s118.photobucket.com/user/bugchucka/media/Slide2_zpsjolrrgjp.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s118.photobucket.com/user/bugchucka/media/Slide2_zpsjolrrgjp.jpg.html" 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[QUOTE="WashQuartJesse, post: 3114094, member: 18323"]A June 5th purchase of an MS64 1932-D completes my 212 coin Washington Quarter (1932-1998) collection. My goal with this album was to acquire every date and mintmark for all business strike and proof issues. In [I]A Guide Book of Washington Quarters,[/I] Q. David Bowers suggests that “a set such as the preceding is extensive and impressive.” This sounded like an intriguing “quest” so I put my best efforts forward to assemble it (minus the State Quarters) in a distinguished fashion. This album was completed one coin at a time. WQ’s have been my sole focus since I began working on its completion. It has taken me over a decade, to do so. I decided that all coins would need to meet my standards and also did everything possible to ensure all were original surfaces. The set is inconsistently consistent, meaning that every coin seems to “fit” but there’s no blast white or all toned, consistency. It would be too much for me at the moment to convey or express the persistence, dedication, and patience granted to this set or the amount of fulfillment, memories, and experience I’m currently actualizing upon its completion. My hope was to share all of this with Coin Talk immediately, but I am going to refrain at the moment and try to keep this as a living thread. My photos don’t quite capture each coin’s qualities or flaws. Hopefully, they offer you some sense of what this album is and highlight my journey. Many of these were replaced five or six times and it often took multiple rolls of certain dates to find an example that I could accept. The best examples of my own discerning tastes and this sort of persistence are found within the business strike clad issues and more common date silvers. These were almost entirely, obtained raw, and many took years and years of in-hand examination to make this album. I feel very strongly that I was able to acquire some truly phenomenal coins but definitely skipped a meal or two back then, for doing so. This was not because I paid a premium, it’s because a dollar and some change was often… all I had to my name. I’d like to thank so many of the old school dealers who allowed me to sift through their inventory. Two of them stand out the most. The first was a local B&M that had multiple BU and Proof rolls of clad quarters on hand. He used to let me cherrypick through them and never charged me more than the lowest of prices. I picked up exceptional business strike coins here for under a dollar and proof’s were not much more. The second was an old school dealer I visited with at a show who actually still possessed the remainder of an old BU dealer roll of a 1940’s semi key. This experience not only allowed me to choose the best example, but it allowed me to realize why a collector should never settle. I had been actively searching for this particular date and mintmark for over a year. Like most I’ve encountered, this dealer was a true gentleman. Despite our sixty year age difference, we hit it off immediately when I described to him what I was attempting to accomplish. His own son once embarked on this same journey. [I]Excluding[/I] all of the duplicates, rolls, un-cracked slabs, replacements, etc… my records suggest the set cost me $10,811.09 to assemble. That may sound insane to some of you (for a bunch of quarters), but I could never put a price on what I’ve taken away from this. Much of that is because of some of you. Well, here it is Coin Talk. Please enjoy! 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