No playing with quarters

How likely is an ATL where American quarters still look like they did before 1998?
 
How likely is an ATL where American quarters still look like they did before 1998?

Very likely. Probably more quarters overall still in circulation. The US Mint always struck commerative coins, the most prevalent is probably the Bicentennial quarter.
 
How likely is an ATL where American quarters still look like they did before 1998?

Very likely. Just, in the name of tradition and coinage uniformity, shoot down the legislation authorizing the state quarter commemorative series.
 
not likely

the penny and nickle have been redesigned in recent years; it's likely the quarter would have gotten a face lift of some sorts too even without the wildly successful state quarter program

the quarter program began in 1999... which happened to be the 200th year since Washington's death... the mint and congress have been big in the last generation on either commerative coins or remodels on certain anniversaries; so it's likely the quarter was going to change in 1999 no matter what
 
IMHO, the quarters and other commemorative coins are to allow the government to put more money into circulation without the money actually getting circulated.
 
IMHO, the quarters and other commemorative coins are to allow the government to put more money into circulation without the money actually getting circulated.

That is absolutely true. Those professional coin collectors and the amateur ones collecting all the states' quarters, etc. are one audience the US Mint is minting for. The same is true for the US Postal Service. Yearly it prints all those Chinese New Year stamps and a huge portion of those are purchased by Chinese and Chinese-Americans.
 
As a coin collector, I love all of the circulating commemoratives - more variety in our pocket change. The Washington quarter was originally first issued in 1932, so it was ready for a change. Previous designs usually didn't last near as long. There were movements afoot to change our circulating coins as early as the 1980's, so it was bound to happen sometime.
 
Commemorative coins & stamps are a profit center for governments: they get purchased at a premium, but end up in a drawer somewhere, not actually used--& they aren't actually worth as much as collectibles as the price on them...:mad::rolleyes:
 
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