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50 State quarters
1999: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut
Where the whole hobby started. The states came out five a year in the order they ratified the Constitution or joined the Union, which is why Delaware leads: Caesar Rodney on horseback, then Pennsylvania's Commonwealth statue and keystone, Washington crossing the Delaware for New Jersey, Georgia's peach framed by live oak sprigs, and Connecticut's Charter Oak. The 1999 coins were struck in smaller numbers than the 2000 issues, but every one of them still turns up in change and rolls.
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50 State quarters
2000: Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia
The peak year for output, and the easiest batch to complete from change. Massachusetts sets the Minute Man statue over the state outline, Maryland shows its State House dome between white oak branches, South Carolina packs in a Carolina wren, a palmetto and yellow jessamine, New Hampshire has the Old Man of the Mountain under nine stars, and Virginia sails the three ships of the 1607 Jamestown voyage. The 2000-P Virginia is the single largest mintage of the whole state series, at 943 million.
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50 State quarters
2001: New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Kentucky
New York puts the Statue of Liberty beside a state outline that traces the Hudson River and the Erie Canal. North Carolina claims the Wright Flyer, a claim Ohio answers the following year. Rhode Island races the yacht Reliance across Narragansett Bay, Vermont hangs sap buckets on maple trees below Camel's Hump, and Kentucky stands a thoroughbred in front of the Federal Hill mansion. Output fell back from 2000, with Kentucky the smallest of the five, yet all are still everyday finds.
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50 State quarters
2002: Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi
A year of music and motion. Tennessee groups musical instruments with sheet music under three stars, and Louisiana adds its own trumpet beside a brown pelican and the outline of the Louisiana Purchase. Ohio answers North Carolina with the Wright Flyer and an astronaut over the state outline, Indiana sends a racing car past 19 stars, and Mississippi keeps it simple with two magnolia blossoms. Pair the Ohio coin with the 2001 North Carolina for a neat two-state argument about who owns flight.
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50 State quarters
2003: Illinois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri, Arkansas
Mintages dropped to roughly 217 to 237 million per mint this year, so 2003 is where a change-only set starts to take a little patience. Illinois frames a young Lincoln inside the state outline with a farm and the Chicago skyline, Alabama honors Helen Keller with her name in Braille, Maine shows Pemaquid Point Lighthouse with a schooner offshore, Missouri sends Lewis, Clark and York down the river below the Gateway Arch, and Arkansas sets a diamond above rice stalks and a mallard.
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50 State quarters
2004: Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin
Michigan is the state outline ringed by the Great Lakes, Florida pairs a space shuttle with a Spanish galleon and cabbage palmettos, Texas sets a lone star inside its outline with a lasso along the rim, and Iowa shows a teacher and students planting a tree by a schoolhouse after Grant Wood. Wisconsin's cow, cheese wheel and ear of corn hide this list's best change find: on some Denver coins an extra leaf on the corn curves either high or low. Check every 2004-D Wisconsin; graded examples have sold for well over face value.
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50 State quarters
2005: California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia
A landscape year. California sets John Muir and a California condor below Half Dome, Minnesota floats a common loon beside anglers on a lake, Oregon is Crater Lake and nothing else, Kansas pairs an American bison with sunflowers, and West Virginia spans the New River Gorge Bridge. Output climbed back up from the 2003 and 2004 lows, with Oregon's Denver run passing 400 million, so these five are among the quickest to gather from a few weeks of change.
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50 State quarters
2006: Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota
The West arrives. Nevada runs three mustangs under a rising sun with sagebrush, Nebraska sends a covered wagon past Chimney Rock, Colorado shows Longs Peak above the forest, North Dakota grazes two bison in the badlands at sunrise, and South Dakota sets Mount Rushmore over a ring-necked pheasant and wheat. That Rushmore design is worth keeping next to the 2013 park quarter, which shows the carving still being finished.
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50 State quarters
2007: Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah
Montana's bison skull hangs over mountains and the Missouri River, Washington has a salmon leaping in front of Mount Rainier, Idaho's peregrine falcon looks over a state outline with Boise marked, Wyoming rides the bucking horse and rider, and Utah brings two trains together at the golden spike. Every one of the five ran to more than 240 million at each mint, so there is no trouble coin in this year; it is purely a matter of turning over enough quarters.
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50 State quarters
2008: Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii
The final five close the map. Oklahoma's scissor-tailed flycatcher soars over Indian blanket flowers, New Mexico sets the Zia sun symbol on its outline, Arizona has the Grand Canyon at sunrise with a saguaro, Alaska's grizzly catches a salmon under a waterfall and the North Star, and Hawaii ends the series with the statue of Kamehameha I. The 2008-D Oklahoma is the only state quarter struck in fewer than 200 million, which makes it the likeliest last hole in a change-filled map.
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District of Columbia and United States Territories quarters
2009: District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands
A one-year bonus round of six. Duke Ellington is seated beside a grand piano for DC, Puerto Rico shows a sentry box at El Morro with a hibiscus, Guam has a flying proa and a latte stone, American Samoa an ava bowl, whisk and staff, the Virgin Islands a bananaquit over the three main islands, and the Northern Marianas a latte stone, canoe and seabirds. Mintages were generally lower than a typical state quarter's, so expect these six to take more searching than the 50 states did.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2010 park quarters: Hot Springs, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Mount Hood
The national park series opens with 56 sites, one for each state, DC and the five territories, released five a year. Arkansas's Hot Springs shows the park headquarters and a fountain, Wyoming's Yellowstone has Old Faithful with a bison in front, California's Yosemite is El Capitan, Arizona's Grand Canyon looks down Marble Canyon to the Colorado River, and Oregon's Mount Hood rises over Lost Lake. Note the overlap with the state series: Arizona's Grand Canyon appears on both.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2011 park quarters: Gettysburg, Glacier, Olympic, Vicksburg, Chickasaw
Two Civil War battlefields bracket this year. Pennsylvania's Gettysburg shows the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry monument, and Mississippi's Vicksburg the Union ironclad USS Cairo. In between, Montana's Glacier has a mountain goat below Mount Reynolds, Washington's Olympic sets a Roosevelt elk by a river under Mount Olympus, and Oklahoma's Chickasaw National Recreation Area shows the Lincoln Bridge. Park quarter mintages ran far below the state series, so a full 2011 set from change is a fair test of patience.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2012 park quarters: El Yunque, Chaco Culture, Acadia, Hawaii Volcanoes, Denali
The first territory in the park series leads off: Puerto Rico's El Yunque National Forest, with a parrot and a coqui frog in an epiphyte-covered tree. New Mexico's Chaco Culture shows elevated kivas against a canyon wall, Maine's Acadia the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse above the coast, Hawaii Volcanoes a lava eruption on Kilauea's east rift, and Alaska's Denali the mountain with a Dall sheep in front. The eruption coin is the one to show anyone who thinks quarters are dull.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2013 park quarters: White Mountain, Perry's Victory, Great Basin, Fort McHenry, Mount Rushmore
New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest shows Mount Chocorua over a lake and birches, Ohio's Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial stands Oliver Hazard Perry's statue before the memorial column, and Nevada's Great Basin has a bristlecone pine on a glacial moraine. Maryland's Fort McHenry flies the flag over fireworks, and South Dakota's Mount Rushmore shows workers still finishing Jefferson's face, a fine companion to the completed carving on the 2006 state quarter.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2014 park quarters: Great Smoky Mountains, Shenandoah, Arches, Great Sand Dunes, Everglades
Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains puts a hawk over a historic log cabin, and Virginia's Shenandoah shows a hiker resting on the summit of Little Stony Man. Utah's Arches frames Delicate Arch against the La Sal Mountains, Colorado's Great Sand Dunes has a father and son playing by a creek below the dunes, and Florida's Everglades pairs an anhinga with a roseate spoonbill. Two of the five put people in the scene, a habit the later park designs lean into more and more.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2015 park quarters: Homestead, Kisatchie, Blue Ridge Parkway, Bombay Hook, Saratoga
Nebraska's Homestead National Monument shows a homestead cabin with corn and water, Louisiana's Kisatchie National Forest a wild turkey taking off beside a longleaf pine, and North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway a curving mountain road through a tunnel with dogwood blossoms. Delaware's Bombay Hook pairs a great blue heron with a great egret, and New York's Saratoga closes the year with Burgoyne surrendering his sword to Gates, a Revolutionary War scene that pairs well with the 2026 quarters.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2016 park quarters: Shawnee, Cumberland Gap, Harpers Ferry, Theodore Roosevelt, Fort Moultrie
Illinois's Shawnee National Forest has a red-tailed hawk by Camel Rock, Kentucky's Cumberland Gap a frontiersman gazing west under the words Doorway to the West, and West Virginia's Harpers Ferry the building known as John Brown's Fort. North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt shows the future president on horseback near the Little Missouri River, and South Carolina's Fort Moultrie has Sgt. William Jasper raising the fort's flag under attack. Three of the five are people and history rather than scenery, a sign of where the series was heading.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2017 park quarters: Effigy Mounds, Frederick Douglass, Ozark Riverways, Ellis Island, George Rogers Clark
Iowa's Effigy Mounds is an aerial view of the Marching Bear Group, and DC's Frederick Douglass National Historic Site shows Douglass at his writing desk with his home behind him. Missouri's Ozark National Scenic Riverways has a historic steel roller mill, New Jersey's Ellis Island an immigrant family arriving with the hospital building behind them, and Indiana's George Rogers Clark leads his men through flooded plains toward Fort Sackville. The Effigy Mounds bird's-eye view is the oddest composition of the whole series and easy to spot in a handful.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2018 park quarters: Pictured Rocks, Apostle Islands, Voyageurs, Cumberland Island, Block Island
A Great Lakes and coastline year. Michigan's Pictured Rocks shows Chapel Rock with the pine growing on top, Wisconsin's Apostle Islands a kayaker by sea caves and a lighthouse, and Minnesota's Voyageurs a common loon below a rock cliff. Georgia's Cumberland Island has a snowy egret spreading its wings over the salt marsh, and Rhode Island's Block Island a black-crowned night-heron above the beach. Three of the five are birds, so read the state name to keep them straight.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2019 park quarters: Lowell, American Memorial Park, War in the Pacific, San Antonio Missions, Frank Church River of No Return
Massachusetts's Lowell shows a mill girl at a power loom, the Northern Marianas' American Memorial Park a young woman in traditional dress before the Flag Circle, Guam's War in the Pacific American forces landing at Asan Bay, Texas's San Antonio Missions Spanish colonial coin motifs within a cross, and Idaho's Frank Church Wilderness a drift boat on a wild river. This is the year to check mint marks: West Point struck 2 million of each with a W, the first W on a circulating coin, and mixed them into ordinary bags.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2020 park quarters: National Park of American Samoa, Weir Farm, Salt River Bay, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller, Tallgrass Prairie
American Samoa's park shows a Samoan fruit bat mother and pup, Connecticut's Weir Farm a painter at work outdoors, the Virgin Islands' Salt River Bay a red mangrove seedling, Vermont's Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller a girl planting a Norway spruce, and Kansas's Tallgrass Prairie a regal fritillary butterfly over the grasses. West Point again struck 2 million of each with a W, and these 2020-W coins also carry a small V75 mark on the front for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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America the Beautiful quarters
2021 park quarter: Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
The 56th and last park quarter stands alone for Alabama: a Tuskegee Airmen pilot suiting up for World War II. The series closed with this single coin early in 2021, so it is the one park design with no year-mates, and the rest of that year's quarters carried the Crossing the Delaware design instead. Expect only P and D; the W quarters were a 2019 and 2020 experiment.
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Washington quarter
2021: General George Washington Crossing the Delaware
The quiet one-year design that is easy to forget on a checklist. After the park series ended, the Mint put Washington leading his troops across the Delaware before the Battle of Trenton on the back of the quarter for the rest of 2021, struck at Philadelphia and Denver. In 2022 the American Women series replaced it, so this design exists only with a 2021 date. It is also the second time the crossing appears here, after the 1999 New Jersey state quarter.
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