Commemorative U.S. Quarter Dollars - 50 of 50

Finally, I have completed my coins through the generosity of my colleague who attended a training. I was hoping to collect these last two coins (CA & NE) personally but my I was sent to another continent…

It was a great day to start working after being gone for almost a month. She handed it to me this morning and I was just happy the whole day…

Though I’m more excited to go home early to see our kids and spend some playing time with them since arriving yesterday afternoon and back to work few hours after. I’m still feeling desynchronous but I have to go after spending a boring training yet enjoying one of our greatest vacations as a couple.

Sometimes, smile begins by seeing the number 50.

Commemorative U.S. Quarter Dollars - 8 More Less

After six years of collecting these coins, I’m glad to have collected 48 out of the 50 states. The remaining are the two illusive states of California and Nebraska. Plus 6 more territories which was released last year namely District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Northern Mariana Islands.

In 2004, Howell and I visited friends in L.A. and invited us to stay in Vegas for two days. While we’re playing the slot machines in Circus Circus, I have won a hundred dollar of quarters. When I’m counting the coins in our room before dinner, I’ve noticed different designs and sorted those and keep them in my bag while the rest I’ve squandered hoping to collect more commemorative quarters.

During my US travels in 2007 and 2008, I have collected several of them. And thanks to our friends Neil and Jacq who even now still sends me my missing ones.

According to Wikipedia, “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.”

I hope to complete them this year…