Commemorative Coins of the United States: Identification and Price Guide

By Anthony J. Swiatek

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944945376
• ISBN13: 9780944945377
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Coin World Almanac
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 6.0" x 0.8"

Customer Reviews

Your basic green Littleton coin folder for the 50 State Commemorative Quarters

This is your basic folder for collecting your state quarters. Since it is a Littleton Custom Coin Folder it comes in their standard dark green, with "Fifty States Commemorative Quarters 1999-2008" on the cover. Obviously if you are a serious coin collector then you want a folder that will match the rest of your sets, in which case there is a good chance that they are Littleton folders as well. Otherwise there are other folders that you can get that will give you a lot more information (some appear to be quite kid friendly), but I wanted the basic. To tell the truth, my father had green coin folders for his coin collection and so it had to be green as far as I was concerned. After all, green is the color of money. Not that coins are green, but they are money. Hey, childhood associations are strong, what do you want from me? There are four panels in the folder. The first describes the series, also known as the Statehood Quarter Program, and explains some of the changes made to the obverse and reverse of the quarter. The next panel contrasts the obverse of the Washington Quarter (1932-1998) with the obverse of the Fifty State Commemorative Quarter (1998-2008). There are slots for each of those (although I used the bicentennial quarter obverse just to be different), and for the set of five quarters for 1999 and 2000. Panel three has the quarters for 2001-2004, and panel four for 2005-2008. So you will end up with $13 worth of quarters. I just got picked up the Nevada quarter so I am current and up to date. Just be aware that if it has not already happened, finding your own state quarter could prove to be the most difficult (last year I found more Minnesota state quarters in Oregon than I did in Minnesota; irony abounds). Under each state name is listed the date it entered the union, except for the original 13 colonies, in which case the date is when it ratified the constitution. So the fifty quarters are arranged in chronological order, although since a state does not officially enter the union until the president signs the legislation. This is a trivial matter, but when the bills for statehood for both North and South Dakota, along with Montana and Washington, were passed on February 22, 1889, which was actually during the first administration of Grover Cleveland, it was Benjamin Harrison who got to sign the proclamations on November 2, 1889. However, the rivalry between the Dakotas was such that which ever territory was admitted first as a state could lord in over the other. So Harrison had Secretary of State James Blaine shuffle the papers and hide the text so that the president really did not know which one he signed first. However, the tradition was established to list North Dakota before South Dakota, but the chronology could be off here, at least they probably think so in South Dakota. However, that is something the rest of us can probably live with.