Quarters everywhere

I finally have 99% of the state quarter that I wanted. I have one complete set issued from the Philadelphia mint. I have 49 of a second set that I hope to trade somehow for a complete set of Denver mint quarters. (All I need is an Arizona (P) coin to complete the second set.) Along the way I've managed to pick up on my own 3-4 Denver mint examples.

Then late last year I encountered an American Samoa quarter, and learned that there was an additional set of six quarters for DC and five US territories. Checking just now I have two of those (including US Virgin Islands).

Now, over the weekend I encountered something else new: the obverse of the quarter reads "Hot Springs." I thought I had been gypped with some sort of token. But no: come to find out beginning this year there is a new set of 56 quarters commemorating National Parks and Historic Sites. One each from the 50 states, plus DC and plus the five US territories. It's a multi-year project, much like the state quarter series. NC will have its issued in 2015, noting the Blue Ridge Parkway.

State Quarters

We had been trying to gather all the state quarters in the series begun in 1999. My dad had helped us some, and even had given Eli a collecting book to help get him started. We were doing pretty well until we moved and then got behind. Every now and then we find a more recent quarter and are able to add it.

We actually have two collections going. The plan is to complete both and keep one, but trade the other (full of Philadelphia Mint coins) with someone who has a complete set of Denver Mint coins.

But then I happened across a US Virgin Islands quarter last week. No place for that in our folders! And today I had time to poke around and learned that this year (2009) there is a whole new mini-series of five "DC & US Territories Quarters." Yikes! In addition to the USVI coin I found there are already quarters for DC, Guam, American Samoa and the Marshall Islands.

Reckon we'd better get busy!