One of my reader asking me what is the best way to start coin collecting for your kid? He just want to give them a small budget to start coin collecting and wanted it to be fun and as a way to learn new thing, new hobby. I give him few suggestions and one of them is to start on United States 50 state quaters dollar. This hunting project for your kids will only cost around 50 to 100 ringgit and you don't need to start with that budget.
Last Saturday when I went to Thiru's numismatic & handicraft, I saw United States 50 state quaters dollar in his for sale collection. It is not in a mint collection but still a good coin collection to start with. I can found 41 state coin out of 50 for almost 1 hour and it only cost me RM1.20 a piece for that coin. A total of RM49.20 for 41 piece of coin. It should be helping your kids to fill almost half of their coin book, right? If you want to cut the time for searching that coin, you can called Uncle Thiru at +6012-6293913 but all the fun of hunting and searching for this coin will be gone.
United States 50 state quaters dollar come with five designs in a year starting from 1999 to 2008 with delaware as the 1st state quater coin. The quarters are released in the same order that the states joined the Union. Each quarter's reverse celebrated one of the 50 states with a design honoring its unique history, traditions and symbols, usually designed by a resident of that state and chosen by the state government.
United States 50 state quaters dollar come with five designs in a year starting from 1999 to 2008 with delaware as the 1st state quater coin. The quarters are released in the same order that the states joined the Union. Each quarter's reverse celebrated one of the 50 states with a design honoring its unique history, traditions and symbols, usually designed by a resident of that state and chosen by the state government.
US state quaters dollar-1999-Connecticut-Georgia-Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware
US state quaters dollar-2000-New Hampshire-South Carolina-Maryland-Massachusetts-Virginia
US state quaters dollar-2001-Kentucky-North Carolina-Vermont-Rhode Island-New York
US state quaters dollar-2002-Ohio-Indiana-Mississipi-Tennessee-Louisiana
US state quaters dollar-2003-Alabama-Maine-Illinois-Missouri-Arkansas
US state quaters dollar-2004-Texas-Michigan-Wisconsin-Iowa-Florida
US state quaters dollar-2005-California-Oregon-Kansas-West Virginia
US state quaters dollar-2006-Nebraska-North Dakota-Nevada-Colorado
US state quaters dollar-2007-Idaho-Wyoming-Montana
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This is some information about US state quaters dollar program that I can find in wikipedia:
A quarter dollar, commonly shortened to quarter, is a coin worth 1/4 of a United States dollar, or 25 cents. The quarter has been produced since 1796. The current regular issue coin is the George Washington quarter (showing George Washington) on the front. The reverse featured an eagle prior to the 1999 50 State Quarters Program. The Washington quarter was designed by John Flanagan. It was initially issued as a circulating commemorative, but was made a regular issue coin in 1934. In 1999, the 50 State Quarters program of circulating commemorative quarters began; these have a modified Washington obverse and a different reverse for each state, ending the former Washington quarter's production completely.
The 50 State Quarters program is the release of a series of commemorative coins by the United States Mint. Between 1999 and 2008, it featured each of the 50 individual U.S. states on unique designs for the reverse of the quarter. On January 23, 2007, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 392 extending the state quarter program one year to 2009, to include the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories large enough to merit non-voting Congressional representatives: Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The bill passed through the Senate and was signed into legislation by President Bush on December 27, 2007.
The program was conceived as a means of creating a new generation of coin collectors, and in that it succeeded. The 50 State Quarters program became the most successful numismatic program in history, with roughly half of the U.S. population collecting the coins, either in casual manner or as a serious pursuit. The U.S. federal government so far has made a profit of $4.6 billion from collectors taking the coins out of circulation. It was recently announced that a second round of minting would begin for the state quarters, under the National Sites Quarters, which will begin rolling out next year.
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If you want to learn more about this coin, you can browse in their Official site for the united states mint 50 state quaters program.
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18 comments:
We've been collecting these since they originally started coming out. We never purchased any, just gathered them as we got them back in change, etc.. We still have a few more to go to complete our collections, but it's been a great way for my daughter to learn the locations of the states!
Hi Lynne!
Yes. that should be an easy and fun way to collect them.
salam mat,
weh....napa x hapdet dah lama nih ?? sakit ke ?
Great information and well shown.
Thanks for visiting our blog.
Dorothy from grammology
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I had no idea there were coin collectors on ECard. My dad got me into collecting just before he died. I collect pennies, $2.00 bills and the new $1.00 coins. I love it!
Martha
ct kumpul duit syiling utk dobi kt hostel je.. hehe!!
This is a really nice collection. I can't help but to visit your site once in a while for the updates.
Its me Ron, hope to see you again in my blog.
Salam cikgu.
Sorry, memang sibuk sangat. Sibuk meeting, nak pindah pejabat. Sampai makan pun ikut mana yang sempat jer...
Terima kasih kerana masih sudi datang lagi dalam blog ni.
Hi Dorothy!
Thank you for your support.
Hi Martha!
I also have been thinking about starting a world pennies collection. Some of them is really nice but it hard to find a nice condition for pennies in Malaysia.
Hi [S]itie [B]Um [B]Um!
itu bukan kumpul, itu menabung namanya... ("p)
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Thanks for your support.
I enjoy my collection. Every payday I get $10.00 in $2.00 bills, $5.00 in $1.00 coins and $5.00 in pennies. I sort the pennies by year and mint and stash them back. The quality of the new pennies are so bad that they aren't lasting very long before pitting so I feel that in 20 years my new shiny ones will start to become rare. I also found a 2003 $2.00 bill with the 1st 3 #s in the serial number being 000. It's number made it #85,000 something. I've never found more than 1 zero in the front of the serial number.
Martha
Hi Martha!
Do you that since you start working? How many years you has been collecting your pennies?
Wish Malaysia sen got different design like your country have. It sure will be a great thing for collector like me.
Hi. I enjoyed the content on your blog, particularly the way you include kids. Coin collecting is such a great hobby, and it is good to encourage children to get involved in it. Thanks.
Hi Lyn!
Without involving kids in this hobby, we will have no future generation who love to do old hobbies like this. most of kids nowadays only love to play with console and computer games.
I don't formally collect coins, but I do have a collection of some older foreign coins that I have found or got as change, collection of Canadian mint coins. For Christmas last year I bought 4 pairs of old cufflinks made from old coins. The coins were not damaged because a hot glue gun was used in stead of sautering them together. 1 pair is an old late (i think) 1800 russian coin set, 2 are german 1876 & 1875 and one pair is old roman coins, very very old. I love them.THe roman ones are my favorite.
Hi Tricia. Why you don't start collecting? Russian Roubles is one of the good coin for investment. In US, you even can collect coin that you can find in your pocket or piggy jar. You have so many interesting coin to collect.
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