The photo's not the best, but I wanted to celebrate right away! I got the Hawaii Quarter the other day, and now my state quarters collection is complete.
It's been an interesting 10 years, learning about each state and the picture it chose to represent itself in the series. When I started, Daughter was 5 and Son was 10. Keeping an eye out for the new quarters became such a part of my life, I was astounded to see how much time has elapsed - it's 2/3 of Daughter's entire life!
I found each quarter in "working" money. That is, I never went to the bank to buy the new quarters, but waited for them to show up in change as I bought things. So there was a little leapfrogging going on as I acquired newer quarters while still waiting for previous issues to turn up.
Now I'm collecting the presidential dollars. This will be harder, as I think the only place I know I can get dollar coins in change is at the post office's stamp vending machines. So far, I have one dollar of about 8 that have already been issued. This may take 2/3 of my life to complete!
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Found James Monroe in change at the Library last week. Now I have two Presidential dollars.
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