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50 State quarters1999: 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…0 - 2
50 State quarters2000: 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…0 - 3
50 State quarters2001: 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…0 - 4
50 State quarters2002: 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…0 - 5
50 State quarters2003: 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…0 - 6
50 State quarters2004: 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…0 - 7
50 State quarters2005: 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…0 - 8
50 State quarters2006: 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…0 - 9
50 State quarters2007: 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…0 - 10
50 State quarters2008: 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…0