When you talk about change in Texas most folks aren’t in favor of it. Many Texans would prefer things stay exactly the way they are. When you clarify the conversation and explain to the Texas A&M graduate who over-thinks everything that you’re actually talking about pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and that kind of change. The light bulb eventually goes on. Dim though it may be.
Most Texans have change or coins in their hands every day. You buy a cup of coffee at The Hole in One in Lufkin, you get change back. You buy a brew at Little Woodrow’s in Beaumont, you get some coins back. If you sign Dak Prescott to a long-term deal to quarterback your football team, your fans will be screaming for change, but that’s another story for another time.
Today we are talking about quarters, that kind of change. Thousands of these quarters are circulating around the country and in Texas as we speak. And if you have one, you might feel like you’re a highly overpaid NFL quarterback.
Recent months have brought stories of pennies that are worth millions, $2 bills that could pay for college tuition, and other quirks in the creation of our cash that have resulted in ordinary money being valued ten, twenty, or hundreds of times more than its face value.
Numismatists across the country are now suggesting that we, the non-coin-collecting public be on the lookout for special quarters that are about 50 years old. The quarters in question are Bicentennial Quarters and if you were around in 1976 or have relatives who were living during our nation’s 200th birthday back then, they might have a collection of those quarters.
You could also find a Bicentennial Quarter in the change you get from a cash transaction. A lot of the quarters from that time in our nation’s history are still in circulation. Most of them are worth .25 cents. But thousands of the special quarters still in circulation today are worth quite a bit more…