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Since the first Mint Act of 1792, the US treasury has directed the US Mint to produce various designs for the quarter. As recently as October 1996, the US Congress passed the Commemorative Coin Act, authorizing the US Mint to strike a commemorative coin, honoring each of the 50 states of the union.

In January 1999, the US Mint released the first commemorative state quarter, honoring Delaware, into circulation.

Five different designs were issued each year from 1999 through 2008. States were commemorated in order of their entrance into statehood.

Those are legal tender coins of standard weight and composition. The obverse side depicting President George Washington has been modified to include some of the wording previously used on the reverse. The modification was authorized by special legislation, and carried out by Mint sculptor-engraver William Cousins, whose initials have been added to the truncation of Washington's neck adjacent to those of the original designer, John Flanagan.

Each state theme was proposed and approved by the governor of the state. Final designs were created by Mint personnel. Circulation coins were made at the Philadelphia and Denver mints. Proof coins were made in San Francisco.

•   Weight; 5.67 grams
•   Composition; outer layers of copper-nickel (0.750 copper, 0.250 nickel) bonded to inner core of pure copper.
•   Diameter; 24.3 mm
•   Reeded edge
•   Silver Proof—Pre-1965 standards.

Some state quarters were accidentally made with "dis-oriented" dies and are valued higher than ordinary pieces. Normal United States coins have dies oriented in "coin alignment", such that the reverse appears upside down when the coin is rotated from right to left. Values for the rotated-die quarters vary according to the amount of shifting. The most valuable are those that are shifted 180 degrees, so that both sides appear upright when the coin is turned over (called medal alignment).

Manufacturing varieties showing die doubling or other minor, unintentional characteristics are of interest to collectors and are often worth premium prices.

Please share with your
 
High grades
Best designs you like
Errors and varieties
Latest find in circulation
And whatever you have on this series


Thanks  :)

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My Statehood quarter set (missing 4 coins)

1999 P&D  :)

2000 P&D  :)

2001 P&D  :)

2002 P&D  :)

2003 P&D  :)

2004 P&D  :)

2005 P&D  :)

2006 P&D  :)

2007 P&D  :)

2008 P&D  :) (missing 4 coins)  :(  but i have them in the mint sets  :D

The highest grades i have are in a 2008 P mint set  :)

(http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10385/State_Quarter_2008P_mint_O.jpg)



(http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10385/State_Quarter_2008P_mint_R.jpg)

and in a 2008 D mint set   :)



(http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10385/State_Quarter_2008D_mint_O.jpg)


(http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10385/State_Quarter_2008D_mint_R.jpg)

The best designs I like are Nevada, N. Dakota and Kansas

(http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10385/nevada.jpg)



(http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10385/n_dakota.jpg)



(http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10385/kansas.jpg)
 

Looks like I'm with Joe. I don't collect the State quarters but when Alaska and Hawaii came out, I went to a few banks to get 2 rolls of each. They are the only ones I like. I guess there were too many committees making too many wrongful decisions in "suggesting" changes to be made on submitted quarter designs. The Minnesota quarter: The boat shouldn't have a motor on it (it does). The fisherman shouldn't be standing in a boat (He is). We should enlarge the fishermen to show that they are wearing lifejackets (They didn't). And one wonders why those quarters, at least to me, were junk.

It's a beautiful animal, that was about to extint  :)  plus I am a National Geographic and Animal Planet addict   ;D

One of my favourites is Colorado...
(http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10048/2006_%28D%29_Colorado_Quarter_Rev.JPG)

My vote for the worst one would be Connecticut.
Is a tree all they have to offer?
(http://www.coincommunity.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10048/1999_%28P%29_U_S_A__Connecticut_Quarter.JPG)

 

Which coins are you missing?  I'm sure we should be able to come up with the ones you need. 

An idea to help you avoid paying the import fees your country imposes, if anyone here can assist with supplying the 4 coins you need, PM them the address of your friend in the US, coins get sent to the friend who I believe will be visiting you later this year, and hopefully no import fees involved!

2008 D New Mexico
2008 P Alaska
2008 D/P Hawaii

Thanks Nancy for your concern, and i hope i will be able to find them before my Aunt come in November :)

Do you collect this series, if yes what is your favourite designs and what coins do you have in higher grades?  :)

Very nice coin Steve, thanks for sharing  :)

I agree about the Connecticut coin design, it is not very impressive.

templar and Goose: Do you have any high grades for the Alaska and Hawaii coins  ;)

EG, some how I be sensing that you be likin' Statehood Quarters......I be likin' 'em too....

EG, yes, I have Unc of both the Alaskan and Hawaii quarters.

any pics to share  :)

Thats great, whats your favourites? pics....pics...pics  :) :) :)

EG, I have Unc rolls of the Alaskan and Hawaii state quarters. Surely there must be a 'Winner' in the rolls. Sadly, I'm a little illiterate in picture taking and posting of pics on the net. I am now being taught by a computer 'geek' from a state college where I live......he's a student and when he sometimes informed his teacher how to do things, the college hired him part time to solve the college's computer problems.  Goose

 :D

Hello EgCollector:

Nice collection and wonderful preservation.   Have you collected P or D mint-wise
or
both combined???
The Statehood brought in many coin collectors, back into this hobby
George

Thanks Sir George, this set is for P&D mint, a total of 50 states and 100 coins  :)