Posted on 09/11/2009 1:50:38 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The U.S. Mint, which makes a mint from collectors buying new coins way beyond face value, announced that it's coming out with a whole bunch of new different quarter designs in coming years.
There will be 56 new quarters, in fact.
They will commemorate a national park, forest or historic site in each state and then some.
A quarter won't even pay the federal tax on a gallon of gas now. And by the time they're done issuing these new coins -- in 2021 -- Joe Biden will still be talking about shovel-ready jobs saved and Sarah Palin will be in her second White House term.
Of course, by 2021, a quarter won't be worth a dime.
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New quarters, their year of release and date of site founding:
2010
Arkansas, Hot Springs National Park, 1832
Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, 1872
California, Yosemite National Park, 1890
Arizona, Grand Canyon National Park, 1893
Oregon, Mt. Hood National Forest, 1893
2011
Pennsylvania, Gettysburg National Military Park, 1895
Montana, Glacier National Park, 1897
Washington, Olympic National Park, 1897
Mississippi, Vicksburg National Military Park, 1899
Oklahoma, Chickasaw National Recreation Area, 1902
2012
Puerto Rico, El Yunque National Forest, 1903
New Mexico, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, 1907
Maine, Acadia National Park, 1916
Hawaii, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, 1916
Alaska, Denali National Park, 1917
2013
New Hampshire, White Mountain National Forest, 1918
Ohio, Perrys Victory and International Peace Memorial, 1919
Nevada, Great Basin National Park, 1922
Maryland, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, 1925
South Dakota, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 1925
2014
Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1926
Virginia, Shenandoah National Park, 1926
Utah, Arches National Park, 1929
Colorado, Great Sand Dunes National Park, 1932
Florida, Everglades National Park, 1934
2015
Nebraska, Homestead National Monument of America, 1936
Louisiana, Kisatchie National Forest, 1936
North Carolina, Blue Ridge Parkway, 1936
Delaware, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, 1937
New York, Saratoga National Historical Park, 1938
2016
Illinois, Shawnee National Forest, 1939
Kentucky, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, 1940
West Virginia, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, 1944
North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, 1946
South Carolina, Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument), 1948
2017
Iowa, Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1949
District of Columbia, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, 1962
Missouri, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, 1964
New Jersey, Ellis Island National Monument (Statue of Liberty), 1965
Indiana, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, 1966
2018
Michigan, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, 1966
Wisconsin, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, 1970
Minnesota, Voyageurs National Park, 1971
Georgia, Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1972
Rhode Island, Block Island National Wildlife Refuge, 1973
2019
Massachusetts, Lowell National Historical Park, 1978
Northern Mariana Islands, American Memorial Park, 1978
Guam, War in the Pacific National Historical Park, 1978
Texas, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, 1978
Idaho, Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, 1980
2020
American Samoa, National Park of American Samoa, 1988
Connecticut, Weir Farm National Historic Site, 1990
U.S. Virgin Islands, Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve, 1992
Vermont, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, 1992
Kansas, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, 1996
2021
Alabama, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, 1998.
All I can say is: baseball cards.
Years ago they were fun to collect. Then everybody and their brother got into the business, flooded the market, and sales went down because it all became too much to keep track of.
One quarter will have 0bama’s birth certificate on it.
So they are leaving out one of the states?
I bet it's Rhode Island-- it doesn't amount to much anyway.
“There will be 56 new quarters, in fact.”
Hey, they’re gonna miss one of the 57 states!!!
By 2021 you will need shovels to load up pocket change.
0bama: “56 new coins? why don’t we add one more so every state can have one?”
Kenya doesn't use dollars.
57 of Obama’s states..
They minted so many of the state quarters that they will never be rare. Only rarity or precious metal content brings any gain in coin value. A lot of unsophisticated suckers paid a premium for the state quarters. I doubt the new ones will be any different.
I recall thirty years ago when a magnet would stick to an Italian coin.
We will soon be there.
Nope. Federal gasoline tax is 18.4¢ per gallon.
43 states have highter taxes than that. Ohio is at 28¢.
> And by the time they’re done issuing these new coins — in 2021 — Joe Biden will still be talking about shovel-ready jobs saved and Sarah Palin will be in her second White House term.
Palin’s 2nd term in 2021? Yeah, right. She will be retired before 2021 after 2 terms bec Teleprompter boy is a 1 term jackass.
Kenya doesn't use dollars.
Sure they do. 0bama's brother uses $12 of them to live on every month.
Maybe one quarter will have George and his hut on it.
I remember as a kid picking out the silver coins ,The mint is scamming the public now.
It wasn’t me that said that.
No, dude. I was describing the article, not you.
Found a Guam quarter today.
No offense, but Guam?
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