In case you hadn't heard, I collect North Dakota state quarters. I do this because they are the most beautiful piece of currency I have ever seen. Let's look at one.
Look at that. The bison. The plateau in the background. The sunrise or sunset. This is what America is about. I love it. I want to go to there. Or to there.
You know, I've looked at most of the other ones. Connecticut with the flower. Virginia with the ships. Washington with the fish. New Mexico with the outline of New Mexico. Alaska with the mama grizzly. Alabama with Helen Keller. This is totally the best one.
I felt compelled to blog about them this weekend, when my friend Jeremy who works at a bank dropped off a particularly excellent haul. Most of my friends just kind of look for them now and give them to me when they find them, asking nothing in return because it's kind of a marginal cost, right? Well, I'm now up to 82. Eighty-two quarters. That's $20.50. That's an entire Cheeseboard pizza with three bonus slices. At the old Hotsy Totsy, that would have gotten me six gin and tonics. That's a lot of money.
And so I'm kind of in a quandary because, yo, this is kind of getting to be an expensive collection. Even when my collection was at 18, people were like "holy crap that's a lot of North Dakota state quarters." Perhaps one day many years from now I will be blogging from a room in my house where all the furniture is constructed from North Dakota state quarters and laughing at how pitiful a number 82 was.
So now I've been wondering what to do with them. Originally I thought that I would buy a trip to North Dakota using only North Dakota state quarters and blog about it, but that's a little too much like extorting money from all of my friends for personal gain.
So now I think that my goal is to collect all of the North Dakota state quarters. All of them. And then many years from now, when people are collecting all 50 state quarters, I can charge an exorbitant amount of money for them, because I will own all of the original North Dakota state quarters. Thus will I be financially secure for the rest of my life.
I feel kind of like a Bond villain.
8 comments:
Quarter furniture!
*prepares glue gun*
Hey, I think it's "jumps" not "jumped"...
Mitra: I thought that too at first, but if you change it to "jumps" the sentence no longer contains the letter "e." I feel like my whole childhood was a lie. Thanks, Sam.
Laura -- yes it does... "The"?
I'm going to agree with Mitra on this one.
What about the Oklahoma quarter??
http://www.kendallcorner.com/2008/02/scissortail-flycatcher.html
I loooove the scissor-tailed flycatcher!! It is an awesome bird! (I collect Oklahoma quarters. I haven't decided what to do with them yet either. I was thinking party favors or gifts of some sort ... maybe I'll make a necklace out of all of them ;-))
Also the "e" in "over"
This is really random, but I just happened to read this.
So I'm a small-scale coin dealer of sorts, and one of the things I do when I don't have too many psets and stuff is I will go exchange $100 worth of quarters at Bank of America (yes. that's 400 quarters).
Aftewards, I'll come home and sort through the quarters, and try to make complete 50-state collections from the quarters that aren't in terrible condition. Of course, I have to polish them up with some metal polish and stuff, but I've been obsessed with money collecting since I was 7, so this whole process is actually pretty enjoyable.
Oh, and I sell the sets for $25-$30 on ebay. It's surprisingly good business since most coin companies sell a complete set in their stores for $30-50. After polishing the coins, most look uncirculated, which is again a big plus.
(haha ok it's a weird hobby but anyways...)
The ND quarter does look good, but my favorites are OK, VT and RI.
The ugliest? By far, KS.
-chrissu from MIT blogs.
I think, actually, the dog is supposed to be plural. A fox jumping over one solitary dog is hardly type-test worthy, after all. Jumping over a puddle of dogs, though... Now we're on to something...
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