Friday, February 18, 2000
Collect quarters, one state at a time
Here's a collection that could cost you and your kids as little as $1.25 a year for the next 10 years.
The 50 State Quarters Program is inspiring a new generation of coin collectors. Prior to the program's inception last year, only 26 percent of Americans collected coins. The state quarters collection has led more than 60 percent of Americans to take up the hobby.
The U.S. Mint will honor the 50 states, in the order they obtained statehood, by producing five quarters each year from 1999 to 2008. Reverse designs honor each state's heritage.
More than 76 million people have begun their own state quarter collection, leading the mint to more than double its usual quarter production to ensure an adequate supply of quarters in circulation. Some 15 million kids are collecting the quarters, according to a mint survey.
Here is the sequence in which the quarters will be issued:
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.
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