My lovely Tishabelle is trying to collect your lovely State quarter dollars.
To confuse matters they were minted at both Philadelphia and Denver mints. Sooo she is trying to get both thre "d" and the "p" versions as denoted on the rhs of the heads side!
She has these ones already: Oklahoma - p Oregon - p Connecticut - d Vermont - p New Mexico - d North Dakota - p Wisconsin - p Pennsylvania - p Utah - d Rhode Island -d American Samoa - d Kansas - d South Carolina - p Texas - d Georgia - d Virginia - p North Carolina - p Louisiana -p Ohio -d Delaware -p West Virginia -p Nebraska - d and p Maryland - d and p
But if anyone either has a collection they would consider selling or can help in any way please let me know.
Cheers PK
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I don't know if Tishabelle is an adult, or if she's young and has an allowance, but she might use the method an uncle of mine used. He would go to the bank and buy a roll or rolls of coins, sort through and pick out the ones he needed for his collection, then go back with whatever was left, adding some more bills to it, and buy more. It's surprising how many collectable coins are in circulation.
give me a few hours. I had some that where uncirculated and put in a nice display igave up early but have some nice ones that id sell. Id sell the display board as well if you wanted. Ill get pics tonight.
I have a jar of quarters, at least 50 bucks worth, does she need Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and it is summer time that's when most people go on vacation ?
I am sure I can find those easy in that jar.
Steve
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fierofool, ha I'm not sure either. She assures me that she's all growd up. As WG mentions there is a slight issue with coin access. :-)
WG, yes getting coins could be an issue. I guess if anyone is willing to help we will find out if postage an issue!!!!! Indeed I am on t'other side of the Atlantic.
Tstang, thank you would def be interested to know what you have and how much you would want.
84fiero, yes she does need those ones! If you could find them that would be great. Let of know how much for them if you would be willing to send.
Cheers PK
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I just checked the USPS website and it looks like it would cost at least $33 to send a small package to England. There must be a better way. Someone here probably has a better idea.
Aha brilliant WG thank you! I tried to buy online but although they have UK option it wont accept my card details. Have emailed them and hopefully they can sell me a complete set! Postage for the complete set was only $34.50 and hopefully customs will be kind! :-)
I just checked the USPS website and it looks like it would cost at least $33 to send a small package to England. There must be a better way. Someone here probably has a better idea.
That is a great deal as those are uncirculated and blemish free. all of mine are all scratched up from being pocket change. After my pocket gets so full I count out 6 coins of each denomination and put the rest in jars, and from a collectors point of view uncirculated coins are more valuable.
But from a personal point of view, meaning she knows where the coins came from, Maine, NY, CA, and all the rest of our memberships homes they can have more value to her personally. As far as having trouble with your credit card, I have that sometimes when I buy MM seeds online, just ask the site for help. they know why there is trouble and how to fix it, hey they want your money.
If not then just PM your address, I would be happy to send them to her, the ones I have anyway. Then she can fill her card with quarters and before she puts the coins in can take a small peace of paper saying who it cane from and where they sent it from in the states they sent them from. More personal to her, but less valuable to any other coin collector. I did a quick look yesterday of my jar and have Maine, TN, and both of the duel mint quarters she is looking for, and would be happy to help, No charge, just PM me your address. A few quarters should not cost that much to send to England, hell when we sent Nick those hearing aids I don't think they were all that expensive, but I really don't remember exactly how much, that was a while, few years ago.
There are also many mint sights that minted coins over the years, though I have no idea if all of the sights minted the quarters.
Thats really kind. Thank you Steve! She is less worried about condition, most of her collection is circulated and while condition is still important you can bet that she knows where they all came from... And when.. And from which mint. :-)
I managed to place an order on the patriot site, so will wait to see what arrives and then may revive the thread once we have more mint info.
I sent her the linky dink to.this thread but hopefully she will forget to check it and the coins will be a surprise.
Thanks again for the help and very generous offers. Much appreciated.
Aha we could be!! That would be great! Are you on hols? Dont want to use up too much of your time over here but if it fits in with your plans we could be there on 13th or 14th :-)
Which begs the question......What would it take to send such a package to Oxford, England?
Hey! It was 9:40 in the evening (UK time) when I posted. I was about to fall asleep.
For some reason, about the only time I look at where someone is from, is when they introduce themselves for the first time, or when buying or selling something in The Mall.
Actually, to throw a monkey wrench into your conundrum, there are also San Francisco minted varieties in Silver as well... but they will of course cost quite a bit more. Also, there seems to be San Francisco as clad as well....
The coins are here in a lovely presentation folder! The girly is very happy. Thanks for the offers of help and linky dinks.
The coins are so nicely snugged in the display we cant see which mint they are from :-) Tishabelle is now muttering something about being able to identify them by square or round edges. :-)
has the list of haves been updated. and what set is she looking for.. they are running thought the states a 2nd time now.. with different back art than the first set..
Originally posted by PK:We kept an eye out but didn't see you
What a trip. I got "stomach" issues on the flight in and 2 more "runs" of the problem during the visit. You guys have huge variety of coins in circulation. Several sizes of the one pence, the 10 pence, the queen, different ages in the engravings.
If the list is still valid, I can make a visit through the many piles of coins to fill the list some.
The visit was my sons Make a Wish and I made sure it was all about him as best I could. He really should have used the wheel chair more, there were nights he did not sleep due to the pain.
has the list of haves been updated. and what set is she looking for.. they are running thought the states a 2nd time now.. with different back art than the first set..
EF
The list is still active as she would like to complete her circulated sets too. :-)
Are the new quarters definitely state coins? She seems to think they are state parks?
In 2010, the United States Mint began issuing 56 quarter-dollar coins featuring designs depicting national parks and other national sites as part of the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters® Program. 2016 marks the seventh year of the program and features the next five quarters. Check out the America the Beautiful Quarters National Site Register to find out which national site in your state or U.S. territory was selected and to see designs from previous years.
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Aha brilliant WG thank you! I tried to buy online but although they have UK option it wont accept my card details. Have emailed them and hopefully they can sell me a complete set! Postage for the complete set was only $34.50 and hopefully customs will be kind! :-)
Thanks again for the linky dink.
Buy on Ebay. Ship to my house. I will reship them to you for actual USPS cost...or DHL. Whatever carrier you want. No charge. Been here a long time. Have a steady reputation. We are only talking about $25 worth of coins, can't be that much on there. They only weigh a couple pounds. Can't be that pricey to send to you.
Thanks for the linky dink spark. A whole new project going on there I think. :-)
Ls3mach, thanks for the very kind offer. She would really like to finish the circulated collections she has started with these state quarters so this would definitely be make that much easier!!! thank you.
Just as an update, I managed to find someone less than 15miles from my house selling a full set of both P and D mints!!!!could not believe thankmy luck. Cost less than just the import charge on the other set I got her and was able to collect.
There are so many territory quarters out now, it is a little insane. And if you really want a complete set there are a few "on purpose" mistake coins, One state even had 3 variations of the same coin, value is high on them. I know not something you want to hear.
The US routinely makes dollar coins, and 50 cent pieces as well.
In the 70s, the half-dollar was really common. They continued making them well into the 80s and 90s, and they still make them. They had a special one in 1976.
With the dollar coin, they've made dozens of different kinds over the past 40 years. In the 1970s, they had a bunch of dollar coins, including one that commemorated the lunar landing. They also had a special one in 1976... which I think had the Apollo on it. Then in 1979, they had the Suzanne B. Anthony dollar coin, and then in 2000, they had the... I can't spell it, the native American lady that helped Lewis and Clark. And then through the mid 2000s, they made all kinds. They started printing dozens and dozens of different dollar coins within the past couple of years as well... they even have the states on them.
The 1976 dollar coin was a bicentennial coin that had the 1776-1976 dates on it. Dwight Eisenhower's likeness was the president used.
Yeah, I can't remember to save my life. My "coin collection" if you could call it that, is at my parents house since they no longer move.
But I have a bunch of dollar coins and half-dollar coins from the 70s and 60s. I remember (well... remember seeing after the fact) that both the half-dollar and dollar coin changed in 1976 for the Bicentennial, like the quarter. I haven't looked at them in years though. I just remembered that there were a bunch of them that were space related.
I always have a few $20 bills in my wallet, but the only times over the last five or six years I have spent actual cash is at food trucks at music festivals. Between cell phones and Visa cards, it would not be tough to assemble a pretty accurate day to day, minute to minute picture of almost anyone's life.
I have factory sealed rolls of each. To my knowledge they have no intrinsic value outside of face.
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Didn't realize this thread was so old and that I had posted about it then. They just sit in my safe. I think I even gave a leather bound book with singles too. I don't even pay attention to them. I started collecting coins when i was a wee lad. I mean, they were already worth something right? Haven't touched them or my stamps in years. Silver notes. Red notes. Silver certificates. $2 bills all that crap. Doubt they ever are worth anything of real value. Even have some 1800 V nickels.
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