Tags State Quarters

It’s March 2020, and if you’re like me, you’ve been told to stay home until further notice. The world is going through a pandemic that hasn’t been seen in our lifetime. States are closing borders and people are getting sick and losing their jobs. I’ve been lucky so far as […]

Coin Collector Stuck At Home

April 1, 2020 in Coin Sets / My Collection tagged America the Beautiful Quarters / Coin Folders / Jefferson Nickels / Lincoln Cents / State Quarters by Kevin

A while back, I wrote about going through some cent and nickel rolls to see what I would find. Going through 10 cent rolls, I did not find one Lincoln Wheat Cent, not one. The earliest date that I discovered was a 1959 Lincoln Memorial Cent. Now I know people […]

Coin Roll Hunters 2

June 9, 2019 in Coin Sets / New Coins tagged America the Beautiful Quarters / Coin Rolls / State Quarters / Washington Quarters by Kevin

Coin Collecting can be fun as well as a learning experience for kids. I think there were more kids collecting back when I was a kid than today. My Personal Coin Collecting Beginnings Back in the late 1970s, I was in my teens and was looking through my older brother’s […]

Coin Collecting Kids

March 6, 2018 in Coin Sets / My Collection tagged America the Beautiful Quarters / Coins for Kids / Jefferson Nickels / Lincoln Cents / State Quarters by Kevin

It’s been 15 years since I bought anything directly from the mint. I think the last purchase I made was a 2001 proof set. Granted, I had to stop collecting for awhile, but haven’t seen anything recently to buy from them. Let’s see what they have released in the past […]

Is the US Mint thinking about the Collector?

March 8, 2017 in Coin Sets / New Coins tagged Presidential Dollars / Reverse Proofs / State Quarters / US Commemoratives by Kevin

You go through a roll of Washington Quarters and you’ll see them in there, State Quarters. Every year between 1999 and 2008, there would be five state designs released and billions of quarters minted. They would come out in order that they entered the union from Delaware(which entered in 1787) […]

What’s Your Favorite State Quarter?

September 30, 2016 in Coin Sets / My Collection tagged State Quarters / Washington Quarters by Kevin

I get asked this question a lot. Though I do both, I think I’m more of a collector. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to make some money for my collection, but I have more fun collecting coins. Here are a couple of examples of my collector side: Washington State Quarters When […]

Am I a Collector or an Investor?

August 2, 2016 in My Collection tagged collecting / National Park Quarters / State Quarters by Kevin