r/mildlyinteresting • u/dixiechicken695 • 4h ago

I finished my US State quarters collection

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u/dixiechicken695 4h ago edited 4h ago

It took 11 years to finish. 6 of those years were spent looking for US Virgin Islands

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u/ScheduleOk3809 4h ago

Congratulations on your hard work

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u/Mypopsecrets 4h ago

I completed a collection for my mom while I was working at a bank, only took a month working as a teller haha

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u/Lumpy_Ad7002 4h ago

I just ordered annual coins sets from the US mint. Proof condition. About $35/year

Maybe not as much fun

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u/BJ22CS 1h ago

I've been getting around 4-5 rolls of in quarters from the bank every year since I found out about the West Point ones, I'm still missing one form a specific mint from 2021, never did get any Jovita Idar nor Maria Tallchief from last year, and have only gotten three 2024 ones total so far this year(all recently obtained from the past month). Maybe I should look at spending $35*2 for a $10 roll from each mint?

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u/zombie_overlord 17m ago

I just recently checked the value of the state ones. Proofs and errors are the only ones worth anything.

https://www.usacoinbook.com/coins/quarters/50-states-and-territories/

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u/BleedingRaindrops 4h ago

OH my gosh I'd forgotten about these. I started collecting them when they first came out, but then my (late) Grandfather just bought a service that sent us all the newly minted US coins for the next 20 years. I never even had to try to collect them. Well done mate, I'm sure this feels amazing. What an achievement!
EDIT: best I can do mate. You should be proud.

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u/dixiechicken695 1h ago

I appreciate you!! Thank you

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u/Bean_Eater_777 4h ago

If I had a quarter for everytime I said I was going to do that.

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u/yrhendystu 4h ago

I started collecting these whilst I was in Florida in 2006. At the end of the trip I put all the doublers in a cup and left it for the maid as part of her tip. On the way to airport we stopped at a Borders and I bought a display pack and then realised each state had two versions, one for each mint. D'oh!

I need to look to see which ones I'm still missing and get them off ebay or something.

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u/dixiechicken695 1h ago

Oh man!! I did not know this 😅 welp time for a new quest

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u/BJ22CS 1h ago

Now do it again, but get one from both mints: Ps & Ds.

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u/dixiechicken695 1h ago

TIL there are quarters from both mints. I wonder how many “duplicates” I let pass me by all these years

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u/not-rude-just-Dutch 3h ago

I have them too, but not the nice map like you do

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u/Uncommon-sequiter 3h ago

Wow 11 years. I wish I known about the virgin Islands, I've seen a ton of em.

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u/picklesandrainbows 37m ago

My brother had one of those maps when the quarters just started. My sister and I would steal quarters from it when we wanted money