State Quarter Challenge

Foragist · Oct 1, 2018

I've often wondered how long it would take me to collect all 50 state quarters strictly from detecting finds. Just for fun; to give myself a little challenge, I picked up this board for $1.99 at Goodwill today. I'm going to go through my finds since July 4th this year, to see how far I've gotten. I know I have many of them, but have no idea how hard it will be to get all 50. They won't be mint state or high grade coins, but should make for a good MD display.

Anybody else do this?

OutlawDetectors · Oct 2, 2018

Great idea!!! I might have to try this!!! Sounds like a blast

CopyTech99 · Oct 2, 2018

I have found 48 total..... and do not want to cheat, and purchase the remaining two.

GLASSHOPPER1955 · Oct 2, 2018

Wow! My 2000th Post!

Pretty cool! Let us know how it turns out.

diggin4clad · Oct 2, 2018

Foragist said:
I've often wondered how long it would take me to collect all 50 state quarters strictly from detecting finds. Just for fun; to give myself a little challenge, I picked up this board for $1.99 at Goodwill today. I'm going to go through my finds since July 4th this year, to see how far I've gotten. I know I have many of them, but have no idea how hard it will be to get all 50. They won't be mint state or high grade coins, but should make for a good MD display.

Anybody else do this?

I've been doing it for the last 7-8 years and it's actually pretty easy. I haven't tried the new series of quarters though.

Lil Worm6 · Oct 2, 2018

I have never thought about it. It's always just been yep that's a quarter, and into the pouch it goes. I shall start myself.

Mike1961 · Oct 2, 2018

No Alaska and Hawaii?

needler420 · Oct 2, 2018

You can do this coin roll hunting and probably have a whole set in one day.

L0S3R · Oct 2, 2018

Killer idea

Bounty hunter - treasure hunter - cabelas
Best find to date - 15g platinum ring

pryan67 · Oct 3, 2018

Dang...I should have done that before cashing in my clad...that would have been fun.

Foragist · Oct 8, 2018

OutlawDetectors said:
Great idea!!! I might have to try this!!! Sounds like a blast

CopyTech99 said:
I have found 48 total..... and do not want to cheat, and purchase the remaining two.

GLASSHOPPER1955 said:
Pretty cool! Let us know how it turns out.

diggin4clad said:
I've been doing it for the last 7-8 years and it's actually pretty easy. I haven't tried the new series of quarters though.

Lil Worm6 said:
I have never thought about it. It's always just been yep that's a quarter, and into the pouch it goes. I shall start myself.

Mike1961 said:
No Alaska and Hawaii?

needler420 said:
You can do this coin roll hunting and probably have a whole set in one day.

L0S3R said:
Killer idea

Bounty hunter - treasure hunter - cabelas
Best find to date - 15g platinum ring

pryan67 said:
Dang...I should have done that before cashing in my clad...that would have been fun.

Rainy day today, so I sorted my tumbled change, and started plugging the slots. There are 50 holes in the board, but not in geographically correct order, so it's a challenge to fill it in in any kind of order.
Here's the update: Using only detected/dug quarters, I have 42 states so far. Oddly enough, Wisconsin is one of the eight I am missing. I have more dirty change to clean and check another day. This is a fun challenge!

GLASSHOPPER1955 · Oct 8, 2018

Foragist said:
Rainy day today, so I sorted my tumbled change, and started plugging the slots. There are 50 holes in the board, but not in geographically correct order, so it's a challenge to fill it in in any kind of order.
Here's the update: Using only detected/dug quarters, I have 42 states so far. Oddly enough, Wisconsin is one of the eight I am missing. I have more dirty change to clean and check another day. This is a fun challenge!

Looks like you're most of the way done. :yes:

dirtydog · Oct 8, 2018

Neat idea. you'll have it finished before long.

Foragist · Oct 8, 2018

GLASSHOPPER1955 said:
Looks like you're most of the way done.

dirtydog said:
Neat idea. you'll have it finished before long.

Thanks. I get the feeling it'll be like copytech99's experience. Probably get hung up on the last 2 for a while. No matter. It's good to have attainable goals.

Magicmantx · Oct 8, 2018

I've kept mine separate too. I've got 39. Also no wisconsin.

Wolf-Dog · Oct 9, 2018

Neat idea! :good:

I have been doing this the last few years, except using circulation finds and through doing a few quarter rolls CRHing. I have found 88 out of 112, but that is counting both mint marks and the DC & territorial quarters.

A few have been from MDing, but I'm only keeping them if they are shiny. :grin:

Foragist · Jan 9, 2019

Foragist said:
Thanks. I get the feeling it'll be like copytech99's experience. Probably get hung up on the last 2 for a while. No matter. It's good to have attainable goals.

My prediction was accurate. After tumbling the last of my 2018 clad finds, I filled 6 more slots, but still missing 2; Texas and South Dakota. I might have dug them earlier in the year, but I cashed in $100 worth before I started this. Now I am adding "SD and TX quarters" to my 2019 goals.

Also, in my tumbled clad, I found a worn buffalo nickel, a Portugese 10 Escudos coin(size of a quarter), and a no cash value token, plus one zinc penny corroded down to the size of a dime. Tumbling my pennies now. Wonder what else I missed...

pryan67 · Jan 9, 2019

My detecting partner got me one of these for Christmas...I only have 12 so far, since I cashed in my clad prior to getting it...but this year I hope to get the rest of them

Skippy SH13 · Jan 9, 2019

Foragist said:
I've often wondered how long it would take me to collect all 50 state quarters strictly from detecting finds. Just for fun; to give myself a little challenge, I picked up this board for $1.99 at Goodwill today. I'm going to go through my finds since July 4th this year, to see how far I've gotten. I know I have many of them, but have no idea how hard it will be to get all 50. They won't be mint state or high grade coins, but should make for a good MD display.

Anybody else do this?

That's a freaking cool board!!

AirmetTango · Jan 9, 2019

Cool idea! I've yet to cash in any of my clad - it's still all sitting in a big bale jar. It might be a fun evening project with my daughters to see how many states we can find among my clad. I've only got about $80 worth total, and maybe only half or so of that is quarters, so I doubt we'll find a full set...but it'll be fun to see how far we get!

Skippy SH13 said:
That's a freaking cool board!!

As a side hobby that grew out of my affinity for craft beers, I've spent the last 10 years or so collecting the crown caps for the various brews that I've tried. Anyway, a while back I found a similar board that I use to display some of my caps - they fit perfectly! Kind of ironic now that I've taken up detecting - crown caps are basically the bane of my existence while swinging in the field, but at the same time I've immortalized dozens of them on my wall and dozens more in display albums! :lol:

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