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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 603668, member: 17753&quot;]Just a couple of observations, and fishing for your thoughts:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>I am really amazed at how many total coin-neophytes collect state quarters from circulation.&nbsp; My tellers at the bank, friends collecting for their kids, and I&#039;ve even befriended the usual post office ladies who collect these quarters.</li> <li>In every example I sited in number one above -- not a single one knows anything (or cares!) about mint-marks.&nbsp; These are folks that want one quarter for each state and territory, and that&#039;s it.</li> <li>This series has been going on for 10 years now, and these folks are still excited to see the new coins.&nbsp; (A post office lady just purchased a $10 roll of AU Guams from me -- I sold it to her at face).&nbsp; She didn&#039;t care about mint mark, or condition -- she just wanted a lot of them: some for her, some for her sister, and so forth.</li> <li>The question occurs to me: has their ever been any organized effort (by any of the big numismatic organizations) to do &quot;outreach&quot; to these folks to get them to expand their coin-knowledge or coin-collecting interest?&nbsp; Is this a huge opportunity that&#039;s being missed.</li> <li>And, finally: I know that we, as collectors, are seriously getting &quot;collector fatigue&quot; with the multiple changes on the quarters every year, and now national parks (and the Sac dollar yearly change) . . . but, out there in the world of non-serious collectors, there are a whole lot of people collecting these -- perhaps there&#039;s even more of them than us.&nbsp; And, if so, perhaps, for their sake, this national park series is a good idea.</li> </ol><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m hoping this thread doesn&#039;t turn into a &quot;bash the national parks idea&quot; thread.&nbsp; I was more interested in just providing some food for thought, and also to ask the question in #4 above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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