What Will Become Of The State Quarter Collectors?

They'll probably be like the proofs; they go into circulation and will be seen but most won't last long before somebody plucks them out.

 

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i agree

we might not have any gas left then

no they will be using the lincolns to power their car

 

MY opinion, the quarters in there folders are neat history lessons, once completed and after looking at them a short while... they will end up in the closet. Some time later, after collecting dust ,quarters will be pop out the folder, the folder tossed. No new collectors,sorry.
Regards,OT

 

Well, there's going to be a big hoopla about the new 2010 design, and that might be hoarded too, just like the 2006, '07 and '08 nickels....has anyone seen an '08 nickel in circulation? I haven't seen any post 2002 nickels in weeks.

 

Speaking of saving quarters for 20 years. Back in the 70's I got caught up with the Bicentennial Quarter thing. So did a freind of mine. I accumulated hundreds of dollars worth in mostly MS grades. My friend had thousands of dollars worth also in near MS grades. We both thought we were going to make a fortune. Not long ago at a coin show I started asking dealers if they wanted to buy them. Most said NO. Some just laughed. One dealer said $0.24 each. I think he was kidding, or at least I hope so. All ended up in a banks counting machine. Sure wish I had at least made the equivelant of the interest I lost.
Same will happen to those State Quarters in 20 years.

 

Thalia Elizabeth and I will finish the big map folder to be sure. I'm hoping that she keeps the geography lesson as well as the coins.

I don't expect anything over face value for the quarters we have pulled out of circulation.

I do expect hundreds if not thousands of "rare completed sets" to be peddled, starting in, oh, about six months. (The "buy this crap at home cable" enterprise will probably be able to add another channel!)

Or earlier for those who will try to jump the gun and "Provide the super rare Hawaii quarter at no extra charge as soon as it becomes available!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (Also, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

 

I think about half of the collectors who got started with the State Quarter program will remain collecting. I don't think many who are collecting them are expecting to retire from complete set either. Most collect for the simple enjoyment of collecting, not the assumption they're going to become rich. I know I'll get a scolding for saying, but those who collect for monetary gains aren't collectors so much as they're investors.
Guy~

 

It depends on whether or not they were exposed to something more than the State Quarters and the cardboard to put them in.

If they went so far as to get a Red Book, visit a dealer or a coin show, or buy something more exotic than a State 25c (i.e. pay more than face value)... I would say the odds of them returning later in life are pretty decent. Maybe 50-50.

Adults have more cash for exotics; expensive taste is frustrating for paper boys (like I was) !