I’ve always been a fan of picture quarters. I have all the Canadian picture quarters, but of course I had to make it very difficult on myself and collect the 50 American state quarters. I’ve never once visited the States so I have been pretty much depending on friends and Family who visit the states, random American quarters that end up in my change, and the till at work!

I’ve been collecting these quarters since at least 1999 when the US mint came out with them. It wasn’t until about 2 years ago that Ive gotten seriously into collecting the quarters.

For Christmas 2008, My uncle, who had recently been to Texas, gave me two books for displaying my quarters in. Now these books informed me that there are actually two copies of every single quarter! One from the Denver (D) Mint and another from the Philadelphia (P) Mint. So naturally I have to have them all! Soo collecting 50 quickly jumped to 100!! (the P’s and D’s can be found on the reverse side of the quarter for those of you who don’t know).

As of right now I’m only missing 14 of the 100!
Those being:
- Pennsylvania P
- Ohio P
- Indiana D
- Mississippi P
- Maine P
- Missouri P
- Missouri D
- Michigan P
- Texas P
- South Dakota D
- Washington P
- Idaho P
- New Mexico P
- Hawaii D

I’ve also found District of Columbia P & D from 2009!!