The 50 State quarters (authorized by Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 105–124 (text) (PDF), 111 Stat. 2534, enacted December 1, 1997) was a series of circulating commemorativequarters released by the United States Mint. Minted from 1999 through 2008, they featured unique designs for each of the 50 US states on the reverse.
The 50 State Quarters program was initially inspired by a 1992 Royal Canadian Mint program, "Canada 125", marking the 125th anniversary of the country's Confederation with a series of commemorative 25-cent pieces representing each of its 12 (at the time) provinces and territories. The Canada 125 program sparked a revival of interest in coin collecting among Canadians, which led American numismatists to advocate for the United States Mint to create a similar series of coins representing U.S. states.[6][7]
In 1992, Congress passed the 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games Commemorative Coin Act. In addition to authorizing a series of commemorative coins marking the 1996 Summer Olympics, the law also established the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee (CCCAC) to consider ideas for future releases.[8] After Treasury SecretaryLloyd Bentsen appointed the committee in December 1993, several of its members, led by David Ganz, urged the committee to endorse a state quarters program. Initially, Ganz found support from only Charles Atherton, from the Federal Commission on Fine Arts, and Dan Hoffman, a young numismatist from South Carolina who also served on the CCCAC. However, by 1995, the CCCAC finally endorsed the idea. The committee then sought the support of Representative Michael Castle (R-Delaware), chairman of the House Banking subcommittee with jurisdiction over the nation's coinage. Castle's initial caution was resolved when Diehl suggested the coins be issued in the order the states entered the Union or ratified the Constitution. Delaware, Castle's home state, was the first state to ratify the Constitution, and would thus get to be the first state to have its quarter released. Castle subsequently held hearings and filed legislation to authorize the program.[9]
Despite the support of the director of the mint and the Treasury Secretary-appointed CCCAC, the Treasury Department opposed the 50 States Quarters Program, as commemorative coinage had come to be identified with abuses and excesses.[10] The Mint's economic models estimated the program would earn the government between $2.6 billion and $5.1 billion in additional seignorage and $110 million in additional numismatic profits. Diehl and Castle used these profit projections to urge the Treasury's support, but Treasury officials found the projections to lack credibility (at the program's conclusion, the Mint estimated the program had earned $3 billion in additional seignorage and $136.2 million in additional numismatic profits).[4]
Diehl worked with Castle behind the scenes to move legislation forward despite the Treasury's opposition to the program.[1][11] However, the Treasury suggested to Castle that the department should conduct a study to determine the feasibility of the program. With Diehl's advice, Castle accepted the Treasury's offer, and the agreement was codified in the United States Commemorative Coin Act of 1996.[12][13] The act also authorized the Secretary to proceed with the 50 States Quarters Program without further congressional action if the results of the feasibility study were favorable.
The Treasury Department engaged the consulting firm Coopers and Lybrand to conduct the study in 1997, which confirmed the Mint's demand, seignorage, and numismatic profit projections for the program.[10] Among other conclusions, the study found that 98 million Americans were likely to save one or more full sets of the quarters (at the program's conclusion, the Mint estimated that 147 million Americans collected the 50 state quarters). Nevertheless, the Treasury Department continued to oppose the program and declined to proceed with it without a congressional mandate to do so.[4]
In 1997, Congress issued that mandate in the form of S. 1228, the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act, which was signed into law by PresidentBill Clinton on December 1, 1997.
50 State Quarters Programedit
The 50 State quarters were released by the United States Mint every ten weeks, or five each year. They were released in the same order that the states ratified the Constitution or were admitted to the Union. Each quarter's reverse commemorated one of the 50 states with a design emblematic of its unique history, traditions, and symbols. Certain design elements, such as state flags, images of living persons, and head-and-shoulder images of deceased persons were prohibited.
The authorizing legislation and Mint procedures gave each state a substantial role and considerable discretion in determining the design that would represent their state. The majority of states followed a process by which the governor solicited the state's citizens to submit design concepts and appointed an advisory group to oversee the process. Governors submitted three to five finalist design concepts to the Secretary of the Treasury for approval. Approved designs were returned to the states for selection of a final design.
States usually employed one of two approaches in making this selection. In 33 states, the governor selected the final recommended design, often based on the recommendations of advisory groups and citizens. In the other 17 states, citizens selected the final design through online, telephone, mail, or other public votes. US Mint engravers applied all final design concepts approved by the Treasury Secretary. The media and public attention surrounding this process and the release of each state's quarter was intense and produced significant publicity for the program.[4][14]
The 50 State Quarters Program was the most popular commemorative coin program in United Stateshistory; the United States Mint has estimated that 147 million Americans have collected state quarters and 3.5 million participated in the selection of state quarter designs.[4]
By the end of 2008, all of the original 50 States quarters had been minted and released. The official total, according to the US Mint, was 34,797,600,000 coins. The average mintage was 695,952,000 coins per state, but ranged from Virginia's 1,594,616,000 to Oklahoma's 416,600,000. Demand was stronger for quarters issued early in the program. This was due to weakening economic conditions in later years and the waning of the initial surge of demand when the program was launched. Another factor was the reassertion of the Treasury Department's opposition to the program. When the director's term ended in 2000, the Treasury proceeded to reduce and finally terminate the most effective elements of the Mint's promotional program despite the high return on investment they earned.[citation needed]
Statue of Liberty, 11 stars (representing New York as the 11th state to join the Union), state outline with line tracing Hudson River and Erie Canal Caption: "Gateway to Freedom"
Young Abraham Lincoln; farm scene; Chicago skyline; state outline; 21 stars, 11 on left edge and 10 on right Captions: "Land of Lincoln;" "21st state/century"
Helen Keller, seated, longleaf pine (state tree) branch, magnolia blossoms Banner with text: "Spirit of Courage" Caption: "Helen Keller" in standard print and Braille
Schoolhouse, teacher and students planting a tree; based on the Grant Wood painting Arbor Day[19][20] Captions: "Foundation in Education", "Grant Wood"
Alabama: The Alabama state quarter is the first coin circulated in the US that features Braille writing.[22]
Arizona: The banner reading "Grand Canyon State" in the design is intended to split the quarter into two sections and indicate the Grand Canyon and the Saguaro Cactus are in two different Arizona scenes, as the saguaro cactus is not native to the area near the Grand Canyon.[23]
Connecticut: The Charter Oak on the back of the Connecticut quarter fell during a storm on August 21, 1856. It also appears on a 1936 half dollar commemorating the 300th anniversary of the state's settlement by Europeans.[24]
Georgia: The outline of the state of Georgia on the quarter appears to have accidentally left out Dade County, which is in the extreme northwestern part of the state. In 1860, Dade residents voted to secede from the United States and from the state of Georgia. The county's secession was never legally recognized, and Dade residents chose to "rejoin" the United States in 1945.[25]
Hawaii: The Hawaii quarter features a rendition of the statue of King Kamehameha I, who united the Hawaiian Islands in 1810, with the state outline and motto. This is the first business strike US coin to feature royalty or a monarch of any kind.
Illinois: The Illinois quarter is the only quarter to directly reference and portray an urban city, with a picture of the Chicagoskyline (the Missouri quarter indirectly references the city of St. Louis with its portrayal of the iconic Gateway Arch).
Indiana: The Indiana quarter—having a problem similar to Georgia's quarter—is missing part of its northwestern corner. Lake County is either partially or completely missing (where it borders with Lake Michigan). The error did not garner considerable notice.
Iowa: When Iowans were debating the design for its state quarter in 2002, there was a grassroots effort to use a design featuring the Sullivan brothers (to honor the five Waterloo siblings who died when the ship they were aboard—the USS Juneau (CL-52)—sank during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942). The effort was ultimately unsuccessful, and a Grant Wood design was used, but not before some copyright issues were resolved.[26][27]
Maryland: The Maryland Statehouse featured on the coin is the country's largest wooden dome built without nails.[28] Some residents complained that the quarter did not feature the state's famous blue crab.
Mississippi: The magnolia blossom design, while recognizable at the high levels of magnification at which it was presented for review, appears at production scale as an amorphous mass recognizable only when the accompanying state nickname inscription suggests the image's intended content to the viewer.
Missouri: The design contest winner for the Missouri quarter, Paul Jackson, has claimed that the Mint engraver needlessly redesigned Jackson's original submission. The Mint stated that Jackson's design was not coinable, but a private mint later demonstrated that it was. It emerged that Mint engravers may exercise discretion in the final design of US coinage, and the term "design contest" was dropped from solicitations for ideas for later state quarters.[29][30]
Nebraska: One of the final concepts for the Nebraska quarter was based on the Ponca leader Standing Bear, who, in a suit brought against the federal government, successfully argued that Native Americans were citizens entitled to rights under the US Constitution.
New Hampshire: The Old Man of the Mountain, featured on the back of the New Hampshire quarter, collapsed in 2003, less than three years after the quarter's release.
New Jersey. The first coin in history to ever depict George Washington on both sides.[31]
Rhode Island: With a mast height of 199 ft (61m) the yacht Reliance could not have sailed under the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge, which has a clearance below of 188 ft (57m), although the coin does not show the ship sailing under the bridge. This would also not have happened because Reliance was sold for scrap in 1913 and the Pell Bridge opened in 1969.
South Dakota: Although South Dakota has the second highest proportion of Native Americans of any state, the South Dakota quarter features three items that are the result of European settlement. These symbols are Mount Rushmore, which honors four U.S. presidents and is carved into the Black Hills which are seen as sacred by the Lakota, a ring-necked pheasant (an introduced species of Asian origin), and wheat, a Eurasian crop which has replaced much of the state's native grasslands.
Tennessee: There has also been some controversy over the Tennessee quarter. Some sources[32] claim that the details on the instruments depicted on the quarter are inaccurate, such as the number of strings on the guitar and the location of the tubing on the trumpet. The number of strings on the guitar-like instrument would be accurate if the instrument was a Mexican vihuela that influenced the country-and-western music prominent in Nashville culture and business.5 strings on the guitar on the Tennessee state quarter. The instrument, however, has six tuning pegs, so is, in fact, a guitar and not a vihuela.
West Virginia: During the submission process for the design of the West Virginia quarter, there was an apparent movement to put the famous Mothman on the final design.[33]
A number of the Wisconsin quarters featured a small mint error: the ear of corn features an extra leaf. Some of the affected coins feature a "low leaf", others feature a "high leaf". All of these "error coins" were minted at the Denver mint. It is unclear whether the error was deliberate or accidental, but the error generated considerable initial interest. Sets of the flawed coins once sold on eBay for up to $2,800, although the 2013 edition of R.S. Yeoman's A Guide Book of United States Coins lists considerably lower prices for uncirculated specimens.[34][35]
Wyoming: Some Wyoming quarters were released in 2007 with indications of improper quality control. Many persons, upon first seeing the same cowboy outline design used on the state's automobile license plates, have mistakenly believed that the lack of detail is itself a flaw, the result of an incomplete striking. However, evidence of cracks in the die and subsequent hasty repairs have been observed in a few circulation specimens.[36]
Year mapedit
The following map shows the years each state, federal district, or territory was released as a state quarter.
The following table has the quarters grouped by year.
In 1997, Congress passed the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act, which instructed the creation of the 50 State quarters series to "honor the unique Federal Republic of 50 States that comprise the United States; and to promote the diffusion of knowledge among the youth of the United States about the individual states, their history and geography, and the rich diversity of the national heritage...", and to encourage "young people and their families to collect memorable tokens of all of the States for the face value of the coins."[37]
Coin with partially rubbed off "In God We Trust" motto
While mintage totals of the various designs vary widely—Virginia quarters are almost 20 times as abundant as the Northern Marianas quarters—none of the regular circulating issues are rare enough to become a valuable investment.
There was, however, a measure of collector interest over die errors in the Wisconsin quarter. Some designs from the Denver mint feature corn without a smaller leaf, others feature a small leaf pointing upwards, and still others have the leaf bending down.[38] A set of all three quarters sold on eBay in February 2005 for $300 and initially saw significant increases, such as $1500 for individual coins, but as of February 2020 PCGS lists the value of MS-62 specimens from $92 to $130 each.[39]
Another die cast error ran with the first Delaware quarters. Being the first model of state quarter made, the mint gave it a disproportionate weight causing vending machines to not accept it. The quarter die was quickly fixed. Some Delaware quarters appeared without the last E, now saying, "THE FIRST STAT".
A major error occurred in 2000 when the reverse die of a Sacagawea dollar was combined with the obverse die of a state quarter on dollar-coin planchets to form what is known as a "mule". As of August 2019, only 19 of these specimens, produced on dollar planchets, are known to have escaped from the Mint.[40][41][42]
A 2005 Minnesota double die quarter, as well as a 2005 Minnesota quarter with extra trees (another die error), have both triggered numismatic interest. An unusual die break on some 2005 Kansas quarters created a humpback bison.[43] Relatively more common are Kansas quarters bearing the motto "IN GOD WE RUST."[44]
The United States produces proof coinage in circulating base metal and, since 1992, in separately sold sets with the dimes, quarters, and half-dollars in silver. For the silver issues, the 1999 set is the most valuable, being the first year of the series and with a relatively small mintage, although prices have significantly decreased since the 50 State Quarters Program ended. The set in base metal, of this or any other year, is worth only a fraction as much. The silver proof sets of later years, while having some intrinsic and collector worth, are also priced far lower. The public is cautioned to research prices before buying advertised state quarter year or proof sets.
In general, the program increased interest in quarter and general coin collecting.[45] Large numbers of ads, quarter products and quarter information were available during the years the program ran. Home Shopping Network, Franklin Mint, and Littleton Coin Company were among the most prominent in ad space.
Since the 50 State Quarters Program was expected to increase public demand for quarters which would be collected and taken out of circulation, the Mint used economic models to estimate the additional seigniorage the program would produce. These estimates established a range of $2.6 billion to $5.1 billion. (At the end of the program, the Mint estimated the actual increase in seigniorage to be $3 billion.) The Mint also estimated the program would earn $110 million in additional numismatic profits. (The final, post-program estimate was $136.2 million.) The Mint used these estimates to support the proposed program, and the legislation enacting the 50 States Quarters program cited these estimates.[4]
Satireedit
On July 25, 2001, The Onion ran a satirical news story titled "Collecting All 50 State Quarters Senior's Only Reason To Remain Alive".[46] On May 4, 2005, it ran a further story titled "U.S. Mint Gears Up To Issue Commemorative County Pennies".[47]
Sculptor Daniel Carr, whose designs were used for the New York and Rhode Island state quarters and whose concept was adapted for the Maine state quarter, has created a series of parody quarters making light of the state quarter concept.[54]
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For the quarters issued in 2009 see District of Columbia and United States Territories quarters For the quarters issued from 2010 to 2021 see America the Beautiful quarters The 50 State quarters authorized by Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 105 124 text PDF 111 Stat 2534 enacted December 1 1997 was a series of circulating commemorative quarters released by the United States Mint Minted from 1999 through 2008 they featured unique designs for each of the 50 US states on the reverse 50 State quarterUnited StatesValue0 25 US DollarMass6 25 Ag 5 67 Cu Ni gDiameter24 26 mm 0 955 in Thickness1 75 mm 0 069 in Edge119 reedsComposition91 67 Cu 8 33 Ni standard 90 Ag 10 Cu proof only Years of minting1999 2008Mint marksP D S proof only ObverseDesignGeorge WashingtonDesignerJohn Flanagan 1932 version from a 1786 bust by Houdon William Cousins modification to Flanagan s design Design date1999ReverseDesignvarious five designs per year latest shown DesignervariousDesign date2008The 50 State Quarters Program was started to support a new generation of coin collectors 1 2 and it became the most successful numismatic program in US history with roughly half of the US population collecting the coins either in a casual manner or as a serious pursuit 3 The US federal government so far has made additional profits of 3 billion from collectors taking the coins out of circulation 4 In 2009 the US Mint began issuing quarters under the 2009 District of Columbia and US Territories Program The Territories Quarter Program was authorized by the passage of a newer legislative act H R 2764 This program features the District of Columbia Puerto Rico American Samoa Guam the United States Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands 5 Contents 1 Origins 2 50 State Quarters Program 3 Designs 3 1 District of Columbia and United States Territories release 4 Additional notes on individual designs 5 Year map 6 Collectible value 7 Seigniorage 8 Satire 9 See also 10 References 11 Bibliography 12 External linksOrigins editThe 50 State Quarters program was initially inspired by a 1992 Royal Canadian Mint program Canada 125 marking the 125th anniversary of the country s Confederation with a series of commemorative 25 cent pieces representing each of its 12 at the time provinces and territories The Canada 125 program sparked a revival of interest in coin collecting among Canadians which led American numismatists to advocate for the United States Mint to create a similar series of coins representing U S states 6 7 In 1992 Congress passed the 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games Commemorative Coin Act In addition to authorizing a series of commemorative coins marking the 1996 Summer Olympics the law also established the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee CCCAC to consider ideas for future releases 8 After Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen appointed the committee in December 1993 several of its members led by David Ganz urged the committee to endorse a state quarters program Initially Ganz found support from only Charles Atherton from the Federal Commission on Fine Arts and Dan Hoffman a young numismatist from South Carolina who also served on the CCCAC However by 1995 the CCCAC finally endorsed the idea The committee then sought the support of Representative Michael Castle R Delaware chairman of the House Banking subcommittee with jurisdiction over the nation s coinage Castle s initial caution was resolved when Diehl suggested the coins be issued in the order the states entered the Union or ratified the Constitution Delaware Castle s home state was the first state to ratify the Constitution and would thus get to be the first state to have its quarter released Castle subsequently held hearings and filed legislation to authorize the program 9 Despite the support of the director of the mint and the Treasury Secretary appointed CCCAC the Treasury Department opposed the 50 States Quarters Program as commemorative coinage had come to be identified with abuses and excesses 10 The Mint s economic models estimated the program would earn the government between 2 6 billion and 5 1 billion in additional seignorage and 110 million in additional numismatic profits Diehl and Castle used these profit projections to urge the Treasury s support but Treasury officials found the projections to lack credibility at the program s conclusion the Mint estimated the program had earned 3 billion in additional seignorage and 136 2 million in additional numismatic profits 4 Diehl worked with Castle behind the scenes to move legislation forward despite the Treasury s opposition to the program 1 11 However the Treasury suggested to Castle that the department should conduct a study to determine the feasibility of the program With Diehl s advice Castle accepted the Treasury s offer and the agreement was codified in the United States Commemorative Coin Act of 1996 12 13 The act also authorized the Secretary to proceed with the 50 States Quarters Program without further congressional action if the results of the feasibility study were favorable The Treasury Department engaged the consulting firm Coopers and Lybrand to conduct the study in 1997 which confirmed the Mint s demand seignorage and numismatic profit projections for the program 10 Among other conclusions the study found that 98 million Americans were likely to save one or more full sets of the quarters at the program s conclusion the Mint estimated that 147 million Americans collected the 50 state quarters Nevertheless the Treasury Department continued to oppose the program and declined to proceed with it without a congressional mandate to do so 4 In 1997 Congress issued that mandate in the form of S 1228 the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on December 1 1997 50 State Quarters Program editThe 50 State quarters were released by the United States Mint every ten weeks or five each year They were released in the same order that the states ratified the Constitution or were admitted to the Union Each quarter s reverse commemorated one of the 50 states with a design emblematic of its unique history traditions and symbols Certain design elements such as state flags images of living persons and head and shoulder images of deceased persons were prohibited The authorizing legislation and Mint procedures gave each state a substantial role and considerable discretion in determining the design that would represent their state The majority of states followed a process by which the governor solicited the state s citizens to submit design concepts and appointed an advisory group to oversee the process Governors submitted three to five finalist design concepts to the Secretary of the Treasury for approval Approved designs were returned to the states for selection of a final design States usually employed one of two approaches in making this selection In 33 states the governor selected the final recommended design often based on the recommendations of advisory groups and citizens In the other 17 states citizens selected the final design through online telephone mail or other public votes US Mint engravers applied all final design concepts approved by the Treasury Secretary The media and public attention surrounding this process and the release of each state s quarter was intense and produced significant publicity for the program 4 14 The 50 State Quarters Program was the most popular commemorative coin program in United States history the United States Mint has estimated that 147 million Americans have collected state quarters and 3 5 million participated in the selection of state quarter designs 4 By the end of 2008 all of the original 50 States quarters had been minted and released The official total according to the US Mint was 34 797 600 000 coins The average mintage was 695 952 000 coins per state but ranged from Virginia s 1 594 616 000 to Oklahoma s 416 600 000 Demand was stronger for quarters issued early in the program This was due to weakening economic conditions in later years and the waning of the initial surge of demand when the program was launched Another factor was the reassertion of the Treasury Department s opposition to the program When the director s term ended in 2000 the Treasury proceeded to reduce and finally terminate the most effective elements of the Mint s promotional program despite the high return on investment they earned citation needed Designs editYear No State Release date statehood date 15 Mintage 16 Design Elements depicted Engraver1999 1 Delaware January 4 1999 December 7 1787 774 824 000 nbsp Caesar Rodney on horsebackCaptions The First State Caesar Rodney William Cousins2 Pennsylvania March 8 1999 December 12 1787 707 332 000 nbsp Commonwealth statue state outline keystoneCaption Virtue Liberty Independence John Mercanti3 New Jersey May 17 1999 December 18 1787 662 228 000 nbsp Washington Crossing the Delaware which includes George Washington standing and James Monroe holding the flag Caption Crossroads of the Revolution Alfred Maletsky4 Georgia July 19 1999 January 2 1788 939 932 000 nbsp Peach live oak state tree sprigs state outlineBanner with text Wisdom Justice Moderation the state motto T James Ferrell5 Connecticut October 12 1999 January 9 1788 1 346 624 000 nbsp Charter OakCaption The Charter Oak T James Ferrell2000 6 Massachusetts January 3 2000 February 6 1788 1 163 784 000 nbsp The Minute Man statue state outlineCaption The Bay State Thomas D Rodgers7 Maryland March 13 2000 April 28 1788 1 234 732 000 nbsp Dome of the Maryland State House white oak state tree clustersCaption The Old Line State Thomas D Rodgers8 South Carolina May 22 2000 May 23 1788 1 308 784 000 nbsp Carolina wren state bird yellow jessamine state flower cabbage palmetto state tree state outlineCaption The Palmetto State Thomas D Rodgers9 New Hampshire August 7 2000 June 21 1788 1 169 016 000 nbsp Old Man of the Mountain nine stars representing New Hampshire as the 9th state to join the Union Captions Old Man of the Mountain Live Free or Die William Cousins10 Virginia October 16 2000 June 25 1788 1 594 616 000 nbsp Ships Susan Constant Godspeed Discovery Captions Jamestown 1607 2007 Quadricentennial Edgar Z Steever2001 11 New York January 2 2001 July 26 1788 1 275 040 000 nbsp Statue of Liberty 11 stars representing New York as the 11th state to join the Union state outline with line tracing Hudson River and Erie CanalCaption Gateway to Freedom Alfred Maletsky12 North Carolina March 12 2001 November 21 1789 1 055 476 000 nbsp Wright Flyer John T Daniels s iconic photo of the Wright brothersCaption First Flight John Mercanti13 Rhode Island May 21 2001 May 29 1790 870 100 000 nbsp America s Cup yacht Reliance on Narragansett Bay Claiborne Pell Newport BridgeCaption The Ocean State Thomas D Rodgers14 Vermont August 6 2001 March 4 1791 882 804 000 nbsp Maple trees with sap buckets Camel s Hump MountainCaption Freedom and Unity T James Ferrell15 Kentucky October 15 2001 June 1 1792 723 564 000 nbsp Thoroughbred racehorse behind fence Bardstown mansion Federal Hill Caption My Old Kentucky Home T James Ferrell2002 16 Tennessee January 2 2002 June 1 1796 648 068 000 nbsp Fiddle trumpet guitar musical score three starsBanner with text Musical Heritage Donna Weaver17 Ohio March 11 2002 March 1 1803 632 032 000 nbsp Wright Flyer III built by the Wright Brothers who were from Dayton astronaut state outlineCaption Birthplace of Aviation Pioneers Donna Weaver18 Louisiana May 20 2002 April 30 1812 764 204 000 nbsp Brown pelican state bird trumpet with musical notes outline of Louisiana Purchase on map of USCaption Louisiana Purchase John Mercanti19 Indiana August 2 2002 December 11 1816 689 800 000 nbsp IndyCar state outline 19 stars representing Indiana as the 19th state to join the Union Caption Crossroads of America Donna Weaver20 Mississippi October 15 2002 December 10 1817 579 600 000 nbsp Two magnolia blossoms state flower Caption The Magnolia State Donna Weaver2003 21 Illinois January 2 2003 December 3 1818 463 200 000 nbsp Young Abraham Lincoln farm scene Chicago skyline state outline 21 stars 11 on left edge and 10 on rightCaptions Land of Lincoln 21st state century Donna Weaver22 Alabama March 17 2003 December 14 1819 457 400 000 nbsp Helen Keller seated longleaf pine state tree branch magnolia blossomsBanner with text Spirit of Courage Caption Helen Keller in standard print and Braille Norman E Nemeth23 Maine June 2 2003 March 15 1820 448 800 000 nbsp Pemaquid Point Lighthouse the schooner Victory Chimes 17 at sea Donna Weaver24 Missouri August 4 2003 August 10 1821 453 200 000 nbsp Gateway Arch Lewis and Clark and York 18 returning down Missouri RiverCaption Corps of Discovery 1804 2004 Alfred Maletsky25 Arkansas October 20 2003 June 15 1836 457 800 000 nbsp Diamond state gem rice stalks mallard flying above a lake John Mercanti2004 26 Michigan January 26 2004 January 26 1837 459 600 000 nbsp State outline outline of Great Lakes systemCaption Great Lakes State Donna Weaver27 Florida March 29 2004 March 3 1845 481 800 000 nbsp Spanish galleon Sabal palmetto state tree Space ShuttleCaption Gateway to Discovery T James Ferrell28 Texas June 1 2004 December 29 1845 541 800 000 nbsp State outline star lariatCaption The Lone Star State Norman E Nemeth29 Iowa August 30 2004 December 28 1846 465 200 000 nbsp Schoolhouse teacher and students planting a tree based on the Grant Wood painting Arbor Day 19 20 Captions Foundation in Education Grant Wood John Mercanti30 Wisconsin October 25 2004 May 29 1848 453 200 000 nbsp Head of a cow round of cheese and ear of corn state grain Banner with text Forward Alfred Maletsky2005 31 California January 31 2005 September 9 1850 520 400 000 nbsp John Muir California condor Half Dome Captions John Muir Yosemite Valley Don Everhart32 Minnesota April 4 2005 May 11 1858 488 000 000 nbsp Common loon state bird fishing state outlineCaption Land of 10 000 Lakes Charles L Vickers33 Oregon June 6 2005 February 14 1859 720 200 000 nbsp Crater Lake National ParkCaption Crater Lake Donna Weaver34 Kansas August 29 2005 January 29 1861 563 400 000 nbsp American bison state mammal sunflowers state flower Norman E Nemeth35 West Virginia October 14 2005 June 20 1863 721 600 000 nbsp New River Gorge BridgeCaption New River Gorge John Mercanti2006 36 Nevada January 31 2006 October 31 1864 589 800 000 nbsp Mustangs mountains rising sun sagebrush state flower Banner with text The Silver State Don Everhart37 Nebraska April 3 2006 March 1 1867 594 400 000 nbsp Chimney Rock National Historic Site Conestoga wagonCaption Chimney Rock Charles L Vickers38 Colorado June 14 2006 August 1 1876 569 000 000 nbsp Longs PeakBanner with text Colorful Colorado Norman E Nemeth39 North Dakota August 28 2006 November 2 1889 664 800 000 nbsp American bison badlands Donna Weaver40 South Dakota November 6 2006 November 2 1889 510 800 000 nbsp South Dakota Quarter Mount Rushmore ring necked pheasant state bird wheat state grass John Mercanti2007 41 Montana January 29 2007 November 8 1889 513 240 000 nbsp American bison skull in the center with mountains and the Missouri River in the background Caption Big Sky Country Don Everhart42 Washington April 2 2007 November 11 1889 545 200 000 nbsp Salmon leaping in front of Mount RainierCaption The Evergreen State Charles L Vickers43 Idaho June 4 2007 21 July 3 1890 581 400 000 nbsp Peregrine falcon state outline with star indicating location of state capital Boise IdahoCaption Esto Perpetua Don Everhart44 Wyoming September 4 2007 July 10 1890 564 400 000 nbsp Bucking Horse and Rider Caption The Equality State Norman E Nemeth45 Utah November 5 2007 January 4 1896 508 200 000 nbsp Golden spike Locomotives Jupiter No 119 and the completion of the Transcontinental RailroadCaption Crossroads of the West Joseph F Menna2008 46 Oklahoma January 28 2008 November 16 1907 416 600 000 nbsp Scissor tailed flycatcher state bird with Indian blankets state wildflower in background Phebe Hemphill47 New Mexico April 7 2008 January 6 1912 488 600 000 nbsp State outline with relief Zia sun symbol from flag Caption Land of Enchantment Don Everhart48 Arizona June 2 2008 February 14 1912 509 600 000 nbsp Grand Canyon saguaro cactus closeup Banner with text Grand Canyon State Joseph F Menna49 Alaska August 25 2008 January 3 1959 505 800 000 nbsp Grizzly bear with salmon state fish and North StarCaption The Great Land Charles L Vickers50 Hawaii November 3 2008 August 21 1959 517 600 000 nbsp Statue of Kamehameha I with state outline and mottoCaption Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻAina i ka Pono Don EverhartDistrict of Columbia and United States Territories release edit Main article District of Columbia and United States Territories quartersAdditional notes on individual designs editAlabama The Alabama state quarter is the first coin circulated in the US that features Braille writing 22 Arizona The banner reading Grand Canyon State in the design is intended to split the quarter into two sections and indicate the Grand Canyon and the Saguaro Cactus are in two different Arizona scenes as the saguaro cactus is not native to the area near the Grand Canyon 23 Connecticut The Charter Oak on the back of the Connecticut quarter fell during a storm on August 21 1856 It also appears on a 1936 half dollar commemorating the 300th anniversary of the state s settlement by Europeans 24 Georgia The outline of the state of Georgia on the quarter appears to have accidentally left out Dade County which is in the extreme northwestern part of the state In 1860 Dade residents voted to secede from the United States and from the state of Georgia The county s secession was never legally recognized and Dade residents chose to rejoin the United States in 1945 25 Hawaii The Hawaii quarter features a rendition of the statue of King Kamehameha I who united the Hawaiian Islands in 1810 with the state outline and motto This is the first business strike US coin to feature royalty or a monarch of any kind Illinois The Illinois quarter is the only quarter to directly reference and portray an urban city with a picture of the Chicago skyline the Missouri quarter indirectly references the city of St Louis with its portrayal of the iconic Gateway Arch Indiana The Indiana quarter having a problem similar to Georgia s quarter is missing part of its northwestern corner Lake County is either partially or completely missing where it borders with Lake Michigan The error did not garner considerable notice Iowa When Iowans were debating the design for its state quarter in 2002 there was a grassroots effort to use a design featuring the Sullivan brothers to honor the five Waterloo siblings who died when the ship they were aboard the USS Juneau CL 52 sank during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 1942 The effort was ultimately unsuccessful and a Grant Wood design was used but not before some copyright issues were resolved 26 27 Maryland The Maryland Statehouse featured on the coin is the country s largest wooden dome built without nails 28 Some residents complained that the quarter did not feature the state s famous blue crab Mississippi The magnolia blossom design while recognizable at the high levels of magnification at which it was presented for review appears at production scale as an amorphous mass recognizable only when the accompanying state nickname inscription suggests the image s intended content to the viewer Missouri The design contest winner for the Missouri quarter Paul Jackson has claimed that the Mint engraver needlessly redesigned Jackson s original submission The Mint stated that Jackson s design was not coinable but a private mint later demonstrated that it was It emerged that Mint engravers may exercise discretion in the final design of US coinage and the term design contest was dropped from solicitations for ideas for later state quarters 29 30 Nebraska One of the final concepts for the Nebraska quarter was based on the Ponca leader Standing Bear who in a suit brought against the federal government successfully argued that Native Americans were citizens entitled to rights under the US Constitution New Hampshire The Old Man of the Mountain featured on the back of the New Hampshire quarter collapsed in 2003 less than three years after the quarter s release New Jersey The first coin in history to ever depict George Washington on both sides 31 Ohio Astronauts John Glenn Neil Armstrong James Lovell and Judith Resnik were all natives of Ohio as were the Wright Brothers Oregon Oregon s design features a scene of Crater Lake and Wizard Island This design was chosen by the Oregon Commemorative Quarter Commission The Quarter Commission was made up of 18 members including Governor Ted Kulongoski State Treasurer Randall Edwards Columbia Sportswear Chairperson Gert Boyle numismatist Monte Mensing and Beaverton High School student Laura Davis along with state legislators Charles Starr Joan Dukes Betsy Johnson and Betsy Close among others The Quarter Commission chose the Crater Lake design from three other finalists a jumping salmon the Oregon Trail and Mount Hood Rhode Island With a mast height of 199 ft 61m the yacht Reliance could not have sailed under the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge which has a clearance below of 188 ft 57m although the coin does not show the ship sailing under the bridge This would also not have happened because Reliance was sold for scrap in 1913 and the Pell Bridge opened in 1969 South Dakota Although South Dakota has the second highest proportion of Native Americans of any state the South Dakota quarter features three items that are the result of European settlement These symbols are Mount Rushmore which honors four U S presidents and is carved into the Black Hills which are seen as sacred by the Lakota a ring necked pheasant an introduced species of Asian origin and wheat a Eurasian crop which has replaced much of the state s native grasslands Tennessee There has also been some controversy over the Tennessee quarter Some sources 32 claim that the details on the instruments depicted on the quarter are inaccurate such as the number of strings on the guitar and the location of the tubing on the trumpet The number of strings on the guitar like instrument would be accurate if the instrument was a Mexican vihuela that influenced the country and western music prominent in Nashville culture and business nbsp 5 strings on the guitar on the Tennessee state quarter The instrument however has six tuning pegs so is in fact a guitar and not a vihuela West Virginia During the submission process for the design of the West Virginia quarter there was an apparent movement to put the famous Mothman on the final design 33 Wisconsin Main article 2004 Wisconsin state quarter misprintA number of the Wisconsin quarters featured a small mint error the ear of corn features an extra leaf Some of the affected coins feature a low leaf others feature a high leaf All of these error coins were minted at the Denver mint It is unclear whether the error was deliberate or accidental but the error generated considerable initial interest Sets of the flawed coins once sold on eBay for up to 2 800 although the 2013 edition of R S Yeoman s A Guide Book of United States Coins lists considerably lower prices for uncirculated specimens 34 35 Wyoming Some Wyoming quarters were released in 2007 with indications of improper quality control Many persons upon first seeing the same cowboy outline design used on the state s automobile license plates have mistakenly believed that the lack of detail is itself a flaw the result of an incomplete striking However evidence of cracks in the die and subsequent hasty repairs have been observed in a few circulation specimens 36 Year map editThe following map shows the years each state federal district or territory was released as a state quarter nbsp The following table has the quarters grouped by year Color Year 1st release 2nd release 3rd release 4th release 5th release 6th release 1999 Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey Georgia Connecticut 2000 Massachusetts Maryland South Carolina New Hampshire Virginia 2001 New York North Carolina Rhode Island Vermont Kentucky 2002 Tennessee Ohio Louisiana Indiana Mississippi 2003 Illinois Alabama Maine Missouri Arkansas 2004 Michigan Florida Texas Iowa Wisconsin 2005 California Minnesota Oregon Kansas West Virginia 2006 Nevada Nebraska Colorado North Dakota South Dakota 2007 Montana Washington Idaho Wyoming Utah 2008 Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona Alaska Hawaii 2009 District of Columbia Puerto Rico Guam American Samoa US Virgin Islands Northern Mariana IslandsCollectible value editIn 1997 Congress passed the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act which instructed the creation of the 50 State quarters series to honor the unique Federal Republic of 50 States that comprise the United States and to promote the diffusion of knowledge among the youth of the United States about the individual states their history and geography and the rich diversity of the national heritage and to encourage young people and their families to collect memorable tokens of all of the States for the face value of the coins 37 nbsp Coin with partially rubbed off In God We Trust mottoWhile mintage totals of the various designs vary widely Virginia quarters are almost 20 times as abundant as the Northern Marianas quarters none of the regular circulating issues are rare enough to become a valuable investment There was however a measure of collector interest over die errors in the Wisconsin quarter Some designs from the Denver mint feature corn without a smaller leaf others feature a small leaf pointing upwards and still others have the leaf bending down 38 A set of all three quarters sold on eBay in February 2005 for 300 and initially saw significant increases such as 1500 for individual coins but as of February 2020 PCGS lists the value of MS 62 specimens from 92 to 130 each 39 Another die cast error ran with the first Delaware quarters Being the first model of state quarter made the mint gave it a disproportionate weight causing vending machines to not accept it The quarter die was quickly fixed Some Delaware quarters appeared without the last E now saying THE FIRST STAT A major error occurred in 2000 when the reverse die of a Sacagawea dollar was combined with the obverse die of a state quarter on dollar coin planchets to form what is known as a mule As of August 2019 only 19 of these specimens produced on dollar planchets are known to have escaped from the Mint 40 41 42 A 2005 Minnesota double die quarter as well as a 2005 Minnesota quarter with extra trees another die error have both triggered numismatic interest An unusual die break on some 2005 Kansas quarters created a humpback bison 43 Relatively more common are Kansas quarters bearing the motto IN GOD WE RUST 44 The United States produces proof coinage in circulating base metal and since 1992 in separately sold sets with the dimes quarters and half dollars in silver For the silver issues the 1999 set is the most valuable being the first year of the series and with a relatively small mintage although prices have significantly decreased since the 50 State Quarters Program ended The set in base metal of this or any other year is worth only a fraction as much The silver proof sets of later years while having some intrinsic and collector worth are also priced far lower The public is cautioned to research prices before buying advertised state quarter year or proof sets In general the program increased interest in quarter and general coin collecting 45 Large numbers of ads quarter products and quarter information were available during the years the program ran Home Shopping Network Franklin Mint and Littleton Coin Company were among the most prominent in ad space Seigniorage editFurther information Seigniorage Since the 50 State Quarters Program was expected to increase public demand for quarters which would be collected and taken out of circulation the Mint used economic models to estimate the additional seigniorage the program would produce These estimates established a range of 2 6 billion to 5 1 billion At the end of the program the Mint estimated the actual increase in seigniorage to be 3 billion The Mint also estimated the program would earn 110 million in additional numismatic profits The final post program estimate was 136 2 million The Mint used these estimates to support the proposed program and the legislation enacting the 50 States Quarters program cited these estimates 4 Satire editOn July 25 2001 The Onion ran a satirical news story titled Collecting All 50 State Quarters Senior s Only Reason To Remain Alive 46 On May 4 2005 it ran a further story titled U S Mint Gears Up To Issue Commemorative County Pennies 47 The Late Night with Conan O Brien television show aired several segments about fictional satirical designs for new state quarters 48 49 50 51 52 53 Sculptor Daniel Carr whose designs were used for the New York and Rhode Island state quarters and whose concept was adapted for the Maine state quarter has created a series of parody quarters making light of the state quarter concept 54 See also edit nbsp Money portal nbsp Numismatics portal nbsp United States portal50 State quarter mintage figures District of Columbia and United States Territories quarters America the Beautiful quarters Westward Journey Nickel Series Presidential dollar coins American Innovation dollars United States Bicentennial coinage German Bundeslander 2 coins Canadian 125th Anniversary provincial quarters 60th Anniversary of Enforcement of the Local Autonomy Law 500 yen commemorative coinsReferences edit a b Muoio Anna 1999 11 30 Mint Condition Archived May 25 2017 at the Wayback Machine Fast Company Retrieved 2011 01 16 David L Ganz The Official Guidebook to America s State Quarters Random House 2000 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dominates field Quad City Times August 23 2002 Retrieved February 3 2007 Maryland Usmint gov U S Mint Archived from the original on January 14 2009 Quartergate PDF Archived PDF from the original on December 24 2006 Retrieved February 3 2007 50 State Quarters Credit Where Credit Is Due Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society Retrieved February 3 2007 New Jersey State Quarter Coin Collecting Guide website Top Stories Photos AP Yahoo News AP Archived from the original on March 20 2002 Retrieved June 23 2017 Pick a coin Mountains a bridge or Mothman Star News Online June 15 2003 Retrieved July 12 2015 Hagenbaugh Barbara February 10 2005 Coin collectors flip rumors fly after quarters sprout extra leaf USA Today Retrieved February 3 2007 Hagenbaugh Barbara January 20 2006 State quarter s extra leaf grew out of lunch break USA Today Retrieved February 3 2007 United States 2007 P Wyoming 50 State Quarter Coin Week LLC Archived from the original on September 26 2022 Retrieved July 13 2022 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Wikinews nbsp Quotations from Wikiquote nbsp Texts from Wikisource nbsp Textbooks from Wikibooks nbsp Resources from Wikiversity The 50 State Quarters Program of the United States Mint Official Website Archived January 31 2017 at the Wayback Machine The District of Columbia and United States Territories Program of the United States Mint Official Website Archived February 25 2011 at the Wayback Machine 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act Archived April 10 2020 at the Wayback Machine State Quarter Designs Archived April 15 2021 at the Wayback Machine The curse of the quarter State Quarter Mintage California Quarter Design Project 2002 2004 California State Library California History Room State Quarter Dollar Coin Type from United StatesPreceded byWashington quarter 50 State quarters 1999 2008 Succeeded byDistrict of Columbia and United States Territories quarters Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 50 State quarters amp oldid 1205000930, wikipedia, wiki, book, 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