Re: 2023 Second Half Quarterly Report

Snidely blurted out:
> On Sunday, Snidely queried:
>> On Sunday or thereabouts, Boron Elgar declared ...
>>> On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:20:57 -0800, Snidely <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Our intrepid data logger last posted an update on quarters in 2022, as 
>>>> the Prominent American Women began circulating his way.  A mid-year 
>>>> report was planned for 2023, but is still mooted but tabled.
>>>> 
>>>> Like many of you, OIDL tends to wave plastic ever more often these days,, 
>>>> and the apartment laundry uses bluetooth, but in the 2nd Half of 2023, 
>>>> managed to acquire $9.75 worth of quarters.  Within that, $2.25 
>>>> represents 2022 and 2023 issues, with 3 visages from each year.  To wit:
>>>> 
>>>> 2022 Nina Otero-Warren  d  1
>>>> 2022 Sally Ride         dd 2
>>>> 2022 Wilma Mankiller    d  1
>>>> 2023 Bessie Coleman     dd 2
>>>> 2023 Edith Kanakaole    dd 2
>>>> 2023 Maria Tallchief    d  1
>>>> 
>>>> For the rest, the good ol' eagle had 6 spots from 5 years, Blue Ridge 
>>>> Parkway showed up 3 times, George's boatride twice, and 12 of the park 
>>>> series and 7 states tolled in at 1 each.  Maya Angelou was hiding after 
>>>> an appearance in August of 2022.
>>>> 
>>>> That's as far as my numismatic nerdiness goes at the moment, and I'm even 
>>>> less serious about stamp collecting, so you are free to return to 
>>>> tracking stars and artists born before your 50th birthday.
>>>> 
>>>> /dps
>>>
>>> That is a great collection of Lady-Quarters.
>>
>> Gotta catch them all!
>>
>> But I plan on saving 2 samples each and keeping them and the parks 
>> cireculating.
>>
>> /dps
>
> Since then, I seem to have another Tallchief and a Maya Angelou (my second 
> overall, the previous was further in the past than this thread).
>
> But I've also gotten some less common quarters, including El Yunque (2012) 
> and the states of Alaska and Hawaii.  And Chickasaw, which was common 5 years 
> ago, but not in my palm since.

The day after I posted this, I picked up my first 2024 quarter:
The Reverand Dr Pauli Murray (d).

> (Consider, though, that 5 years ago I was using the coin changer at the 
> laundomatique, which recirculates a lot of coins.  Not captive or closed 
> loop, but a lot of feedback.)
>

Thanks to my landlord's laundry remodel project, this week I visited a 
coin laundry (one I used frequently several years ago).  The results 
completed my 2023 list with Eleanor Roosevelt and Jovita Idar.  The 
returns on $10 was as follows:

Year    State   Other                   Mint    Count
-----------------------------------------------------
1968                                    x       1
1981                                    d       1
1987                                    dp      2
1988                                    p       1
1990                                    d       1
1992                                    d       1
1995                                    dd      2
1998                                    dp      2
1999    DE                              d       1
2000    MA                              d       1
2000    MD                              p       1
2000    NH                              p       1
2004    WI                              d       1
2006    CO                              d       1
2008    NM                              p       1
2010            Mount Hood              d       1
2014            Great Sand Dunes        d       1
2014            Great Smokey Mountains  d       1
2015            Blue Ridge Parkway      d       1
2015            Kisatchie               d       1
2016            Cumberland Gap          d       1
2016            Theodore Roosevelt      d       1
2017            Ellis Island            p       1
2017            Frederick Douglass      d       1
2017            George Rogers Clark     dp      2
2018            Cumberland Island       d       1
2018            Voyageurs               d       1
2020            Salt River Bay          d       1
2020            Tallgrass Prairie       d       1
2021            Crossing the Delaware   d       1
2022            Sally Ride              p       1
2022            Wilma Mankiller         d       1
2023            Eleanor Roosevelt       ddd     3
2023            Jovita Idar             d       1

I was a bit surprised by the number of Phillie Mint flavored quarters
 and pleased to see a Mt Hood.

/dps "not always with my heads up"

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