What are State Quarters Worth?
What are State Quarters Worth? Saturday October 11, 2008 Despite each coin in the State Quarters series being minted in the hundreds of millions of coins, the venerable Statehood Quarters program is one of the most widely collected coin series in history. The U.S. Treasury Department occasionally states in press releases that 140 million Americans are collecting State Quarters. So, even if the average mintage of a circulating State Quarter is somewhere around 270 million coins of each date and mint mark, with 140 million people collecting them, that’s only about 2 coins per person, right? Actually, the Treasury Department’s estimate of 140 million State Quarter collectors seems suspect. This figure probably includes everybody who ever put away 1 coin from their own state or something, but the point is that State Quarte