PASS THE BUCKS: Campaign on to collect presidential coins
Can a dollar be as cool as a quarter?
The upcoming holiday shopping season will determine whether new $1 presidential coins will catch fire with the collecting public the way state quarters have for the past nine years. So far, so good.
“Our customers are already collecting for Christmas,” says Sylvia Penn, head teller at the Comerica Bank on Mack Avenue on Detroit’s east side. “They especially want John Adams real bad. Right now I don’t think I have any. People keep asking, ‘Can you get them? Please, can you get them?’ ”
Next year, the last of the 50 state quarters will roll off the U.S. Mint production line. Since 1999, 140 million Americans have been rummaging through loose change to find and collect quarters that represent every state. Next year’s Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii quarters will be last in the series. It costs the mint just 5 cents to manufacture a state quarter, so it makes 20 cents off every one. Read Full Story
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