Searching quarters?

[Maineman750]

If I were searching quarters, I'd have over $25,000 FV waiting to be returned to the bank right now...that would be cool

[DCW]

As mentioned already, quarters can sure rack up the $. For 25 the fun, I'll stick with cents. Though, that 2009-D DC $.25 DDR is on my want list.
I may foray into Jefferson one day, keeping them all for their nickel content. (Boy my wife will love that.)

[AstroRaider]

I miss the days when casinos actually used coins.

Las Vegas is a 4 1/2 hour drive from my house. We (my wife and I) would sit at quarter machines (she liked blackjack machines and I liked Triple Jackpot machines) for long stretches.

But, we would have the payouts spit out the quarters continuously and would listen for the silver quarters. By the end of any evening, I would have a pocketful of them.

This way, you usually come out ahead.

[Jacob]

Theres a lot of nice die varieties in quarters. But the state quarters I hate and cant stand them for the life of me. The only Quarter Im after from 1999-now is the 2009 District of Columbia DDR. The rest I could give a rats a## about. Im not a fan of them mild DDRs at all. Theres to many unnecessary listings on the state Quarters just like the 2009 Lincoln years.

[Jacob]

I miss the days when casinos actually used coins.

Las Vegas is a 4 1/2 hour drive from my house. We (my wife and I) would sit at quarter machines (she liked blackjack machines and I liked Triple Jackpot machines) for long stretches.

But, we would have the payouts spit out the quarters continuously and would listen for the silver quarters. By the end of any evening, I would have a pocketful of them.

This way, you usually come out ahead.

I miss them slots too. The nickel and dime ones were nice too. To many people were cheating on them slots for it was easy to rig machines on them ones. So of course they upgrade machines to ticket and token payouts.

[admrose]

As mentioned already, quarters can sure rack up the $. For 25 the fun, I'll stick with cents. Though, that 2009-D DC $.25 DDR is on my want list.
I may foray into Jefferson one day, keeping them all for their nickel content. (Boy my wife will love that.)

Jeffersons are at 92% of their face value with regards to metal value so that may not be the worst idea.

[Gunnovice09]

That's a ton of varieties bob!

[mustbebob]

There are plenty of State Quarter varieties, and like other denominations, if you don't find anything, you take them back to the bank. You are only out of money if you don't put them back out there in one way or another. Since I was able to sell the doubled dies, I made some considerable money at the time and still have more to sell. I also managed to put together an almost complete set of all the known Minnesota Sate Quarter doubled dies. There are not a lot of people who can say that.
My passion has and will always be the Lincoln cent though. However, every one in a while, it is good to change things up.

[Gunnovice09]

Interesting bob, maybe I'll pick a couple rolls for fun.

[LincolnLawyer]

I just saw a really cool doubled die on a Washington, D.C. Quarter on another forum which makes me curious if quarters are worth searching for varieties. The first problem I run into when debating it is I HATE state quarters . . . .

Search for what you like. If there is a particular variety of quarter that interests you, purchase BU rolls or a BU bank bag of that specific quarter to search (assuming the price is feasible). You can also purchase boxes from a bank for face value, only examine the quarters that interest you, keep any varieties, and return the rest to the bank or spend them as you would paper money. This may sound heretical, but this is what I do with cents, I'm not trying to search for every possible variety (especially for the majority of newer cents).

In sum, find the cheapest way to look for ANY variety that interests you and don't stress about any varieties you don't find interesting that may slip through your fingers.

[Gunnovice09]

That's what I do when I search cents for varieties and other denominations for silver. I have a nice little string of pick up and dump banks set up.

[Magers]

I go through about $500-$1000 worth of quarters every month... Fortunately for me I work in a night club and get them in my bank bag to start my shift. I agree they can be rather boring to search so this is how I sort them:
Set aside all pre-1973 excluding 1967.
Set aside 1976 D and Wisconsin D mint.
I search for all the DDO, DDR and Rpm's listed in the CPG, different reverse types and extra leafs.
I've been pretty lucky, finding 2 extra leaf highs, some minor ddo, ddr and rpms.
I also found the coin featured in this article by John Wexler.

http://www.coinworld.com/articles/numismatic-potpourri

[admrose]

Here's how I used to search quarters:

1) Get $500 in quarters
2) Open first roll
3) Find nothing but state and ATB quarters
4) Open second roll
5) Repeat #3. Begin to wonder why I'm doing this.
6) Open next 10 rolls. Repeat #3. Stare angrily at quarter box.
7) Open next 10 rolls. Repeat #3. Take shot of alcohol.
8) Repeat #7. Cry.
9) Repeat #8. Tell wife to hide the guns for my own safety.
10) Open final eight rolls. Repeat #3. More alcohol. Cackle maniacally.
11) Open box of cents. Cry. Hug box of cents.


Now you see why I stopped doing that.

[VAB2013]

admrose that cracked me up, LOL I would hate to see how your turkey comes out at Thanksgiving

[Gunnovice09]

Magers, you have me motivated now!