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I'm really sick of commemorative coins of the past 10 years. It was cool when the state quarters came out but now the only non-commemorative coins are dimes and halves. I am disappointed that the mint is releasing state monument or whatever coins now. 10 more years of crap coinage. It's hard to tell which will be around longer- US commemorative coins or the US.

i agree!

Me too. Look at the smorgasbord of quarters we've had to endure up here in Canada over the last 20 years...

http://www.jandm.com/script/getitem.asp?CID=3&PID=98

The most recent version of the loonie irritates me too. The "Saskatchewan Roughriders" are our rival team in the CFL

http://www.jandm.com/script/getitem.asp?CID=3&PID=107

agreed, I collected the statehood quarters from circulation, then I got the territories but I REFUSE to do it again with these park quarters.
Enough is enough.

pennysifter wrote:I'm really sick of commemorative coins of the past 10 years. It was cool when the state quarters came out but now the only non-commemorative coins are dimes and halves. I am disappointed that the mint is releasing state monument or whatever coins now. 10 more years of crap coinage. It's hard to tell which will be around longer- US commemorative coins or the US.

I'm confused, but that is normal these days.

Is the design for the penny and nickel changing this year to something commemorative?

I have not yet found much of the Nat Park quarters to be out there...

I collect them long enough to make a bag full of change to take to the bank to cash in. The only statehood/territories/parks quarters I have in my collection are a set of silver proofs from 2005 and proof set from 2009 and 3 unc rolls leftover from $25 bags that the mint sold. And the only reason I bought them was to try to find some errors. Of course, wasn't lucky enough to find any. Now I have $30 in quarters that I have debated on to throw in the bag with the pennies and take them all to the bank. As far as I am concerned the clad quarters are junk and will never be worth more than 25 cents. I'll be glad when the quarters return to normal. To bad we couldn't get the mint to redo the quarter and put the Standing Liberty back on there. I'd buy that for a dollar!

When the conversation turns to coin collecting at the bank after picking up pennies I usually get asked if I want any of the "new golden dollar" coins. I politely decline and heave 120 lbs of Cu/Zn out to the car.

Shiny, worthless little, trinkets, to impress the natives.

At least beads were pretty and can be woven into a belt.

Thogey wrote:Shiny, worthless little, trinkets, to impress the natives.

I picked up 30 generic but rather sharp looking 50 state folders for a couple of bucks (total, not each) and have been filling them with nice looking coins I pull out of circulation (well most are filled actually.. just a few spots left). My figuring is to sell the completed collections as flea market/garage sale items some day for maybe $20 - $25 bucks. Silly mark up? sure, but I think to a non-collector they will sell. If I'm wrong I guess I don't really have much $ in it.. so whatever. I can always dump them back into circulation. Same reason I tend to hoard Ike dollars and bicentennials. non-collectors seem to think they are worth considerably more than they really are. Ethically I'd feel bad about taking advantage of a naive buyer - but I'm not really skinning anyone and while not BU, pretty much anything I take the trouble to set aside is a respectable grade.

Aside from that, I do like the silver quarter proof sets as a bullion buy, now that they can be had close to melt.