Re: 2023 Second Half Quarterly Report

On Tue, 28 May 2024 18:51:55 -0700
Snidely <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, Snidely exclaimed wildly:
> > 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
> >>>>> 

They sound like peoples names

> >>>>> 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.)
> 
> At the laundry I'm using now, I've seen a basketload* of quarters being 
> hauled off to the bank (by the staff).  I don't know how many times a 
> day the machines are emptied.  It looks like only a fraction of the 
> machines are needed to refill the change machine.
> 
> >>
> >
> > 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:
> >
> [...]
> > 2010            Mount Hood              d       1

From Stingray I've heard of 'The Hood', I trust nothing weird is going on
there.

> [...]
> > 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.
> 
> In May, I've had 1 more 2010 (Yellowstone), and 3 2012 (Denali, Denali, 
> and now Hawaii Volcanoes).  Earlier in the year, a 2011 (Chickasaw),
> and another 2012 (El Yunque).
> 
> My first 2024 quarter came via drive-thru activity:
> 
> 2024            The Reverand Dr Pauli Murray    d       1
> 
> Here are the gory details of finally getting the last missing quarter 
> from 2022, via the coin changer a couple of weeks ago:
> 
> 1976            Bicentennial            d       1
> 1979                                    x       1
> 1983                                    d       1
> 1985                                    p       1
> 1986                                    d       1
> 1987                                    dd      2
> 1990                                    d       1
> 1992                                    d       1
> 1993                                    p       1
> 1994                                    p       1
> 1995                                    d       1
> 1996                                    p       1
> 1999    CT                              d       1
> 2000    MA                              p       1
> 2000    SC                              d       1
> 2003    MO                              d       1
> 2006    SD                              p       1
> 2010            Yellowstone             d       1
> 2012            Denali                  d       1
> 2013            Ft McHenry              d       1
> 2013            White Mountain          d       1
> 2014            Shenandoah              d       1
> 2015            Blue Ridge Parkway      d       1
> 2015            Bombay Hook             d       1
> 2016            Shawnee                 d       1
> 2017            Ozark Riverways         d       1
> 2018            Block Island            d       1
> 2019            American Memorial Park  d       1
> 2020            National Park American Samoa    d       1
> 2020            Salt Bay                dd      2
> 2021            Crossing the Delaware   dd      2
> 2022            Anna May Wong           d       1
> 2022            Maya Angelou            d       1
> 2022            Sally Ride              d       1
> 2022            Wilma Mankiller         ddd     3
> 

Again, onlty some of those sound like people.  

PS Aren't there only 4 quarters??? and pshurely 2 to a second half?

(All we get is some new Charley chap cropping up on our recent coins).

Yrs a non-leftpondian. 

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