What's an effective way to find older Philadelphia and Denver mint Fifty State Quarters without ordering them?

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What's an effective way to find older Philadelphia and Denver mint Fifty State Quarters without ordering them?
Hi. I'm a coin dealer in the Midwest. To an extent, the quarters are distributed through the banks in a regional fashion...that is, the banks in your area will tend to get coins from one mint over another depending on where you are located. Roughly from the Ohio River and west, you'll tend to find more D (Denver) coins; east of that, it's primarily "P" (Philadelphia) issues. There are a few exceptions occasionally when one mint lags behind in production, etc. but that is the case in general.



The best way for you to find these out of circulation is to go to your local bank and buy rolls of quarters. You may have to try a couple different banks, and rotate around so you don't end up getting your own stuff back. Pick the banks that give you the best coins as the "buy from" banks, and the others as the "cash in" banks.



Hope this helped a bit.
Reply:answerman63 is exactly right.



Take some money and exchange it for quarters at the bank and start searching worse comes to worse you can always just change the quarters back or use them at a store.
Reply:The web being what it is, I'm sure you can find a numismatic web page where collectors will exchange coins for others in return. You can also visit your local numismatic dealer and talk to them about resources to get them. They sometimes have bags full of coins that aren't too valuable yet that you can get at cost or only slightly higher than cost. Just do some research to make sure they are reputable and that the cost is around the true value. I would also try to find a coin collectors blog that can always garner more results. These are effective in that they don't require too much monetary or time investment and should yield pretty fair results.