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50 State Quarters / Silver State Quarters
The 50 State Quarters program (Pub.L. 105-124, 111 Stat. 2534, enacted December 1, 1997) is the release of a series of commemorative coins by the United States Mint. Between 1999 and 2008, it featured each of the 50 individual U.S. states on unique designs for the reverse of the quarter.
The state quarter program
During the program, a new statehood quarter was released by the United States Mint every quintile, or 1/5th of a year (73 days, or ten weeks), meaning that five designs were released each year. Each quarter's reverse celebrated one of the 50 states with a design honoring its unique history, traditions and symbols, usually designed by a resident of that state and chosen by the state government.
The quarters are released in the same order that the states joined the Union. The obverse of each quarter is a slight redesign of the previous design of the quarter.
The statehood quarters program has become one of the most popular commemorative coin programs in United States history; the United States Mint has estimated that over one hundred million individuals have collected state quarters, either formally or informally.
By the end of 2008, all of the original 50 states quarters had been minted and released. The official total, according to the U.S. Mint, was 34,797,600,000 coins. The average per state design was 695,952,000 coins, but ranged all the way from Virginia's 1,594,616,000 to Oklahoma's 416,600,000, a difference by a factor of about 3.83. The average was skewed higher by a few states with very large mintage numbers, while the median state had a total of 580,500,000 coins. Only two states had a very close number of minted coins, Missouri and Wisconsin each with about 453,200,000 coins.
Mintage quantities
| State |
Denver |
Philadelphia |
Total |
| 1999 |
| Delaware |
401,424,000 |
373,400,000 |
774,824,000 |
| Pennsylvania |
358,332,000 |
349,000,000 |
707,332,000 |
| New Jersey |
299,028,000 |
363,200,000 |
662,228,000 |
| Georgia |
488,744,000 |
451,188,000 |
939,932,000 |
| Connecticut |
657,880,000 |
688,744,000 |
1,346,624,000 |
| 1999 Totals |
|
|
4,430,940,000 |
| 2000 |
| Massachusetts |
535,184,000 |
628,600,000 |
1,163,784,000 |
| Maryland |
556,532,000 |
678,200,000 |
1,234,732,000 |
| South Carolina |
566,208,000 |
742,576,000 |
1,308,784,000 |
| New Hampshire |
495,976,000 |
673,040,000 |
1,169,016,000 |
| Virginia |
651,616,000 |
943,000,000 |
1,594,616,000 |
| 2000 Totals |
|
|
6,470,932,000 |
| 2001 |
| New York |
619,640,000 |
655,400,000 |
1,275,040,000 |
| North Carolina |
427,876,000 |
627,600,000 |
1,055,476,000 |
| Rhode Island |
447,100,000 |
423,000,000 |
870,100,000 |
| Vermont |
459,404,000 |
423,400,000 |
882,804,000 |
| Kentucky |
370,564,000 |
353,000,000 |
723,564,000 |
| 2001 Totals |
|
|
4,806,984,000 |
| 2002 |
| Tennessee |
286,468,000 |
361,600,000 |
648,068,000 |
| Ohio |
414,832,000 |
217,200,000 |
632,032,000 |
| Louisiana |
402,204,000 |
362,000,000 |
764,204,000 |
| Indiana |
327,200,000 |
362,600,000 |
689,800,000 |
| Mississippi |
289,600,000 |
290,000,000 |
579,600,000 |
| 2002 Totals |
|
|
3,313,704,000 |
| 2003 |
| Illinois |
237,400,000 |
225,800,000 |
463,200,000 |
| Alabama |
232,400,000 |
225,000,000 |
457,400,000 |
| Maine |
231,400,000 |
217,400,000 |
448,800,000 |
| Missouri |
228,200,000 |
225,000,000 |
453,200,000 |
| Arkansas |
229,800,000 |
228,000,000 |
457,800,000 |
| 2003 Totals |
|
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2,280,400,000 |
| 2004 |
| Michigan |
225,800,000 |
233,800,000 |
459,600,000 |
| Florida |
241,600,000 |
240,200,000 |
481,800,000 |
| Texas |
263,000,000 |
278,800,000 |
541,800,000 |
| Iowa |
251,400,000 |
213,800,000 |
465,200,000 |
| Wisconsin |
226,800,000 |
226,400,000 |
453,200,000 |
| 2004 Totals |
|
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2,401,600,000 |
| 2005 |
| California |
263,200,000 |
257,200,000 |
520,400,000 |
| Minnesota |
248,400,000 |
239,600,000 |
488,000,000 |
| Oregon |
404,000,000 |
316,200,000 |
720,200,000 |
| Kansas |
300,000,000 |
264,400,000 |
563,400,000 |
| West Virginia |
356,200,000 |
365,400,000 |
721,600,000 |
| 2005 Totals |
|
|
3,013,600,000 |
| 2006 |
| Nevada |
312,800,000 |
277,000,000 |
589,800,000 |
| Nebraska |
273,000,000 |
318,000,000 |
591,000,000 |
| Colorado |
294,200,000 |
274,800,000 |
569,000,000 |
| North Dakota |
359,000,000 |
305,800,000 |
664,800,000 |
| South Dakota |
265,800,000 |
245,000,000 |
510,800,000 |
| 2006 Totals |
|
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2,925,400,000 |
| 2007 |
| Montana |
256,240,000 |
257,000,000 |
513,240,000 |
| Washington |
280,000,000 |
265,200,000 |
545,200,000 |
| Idaho |
286,800,000 |
294,600,000 |
581,400,000 |
| Wyoming |
320,800,000 |
243,600,000 |
564,400,000 |
| Utah |
253,200,000 |
255,000,000 |
508,200,000 |
| 2007 Totals |
|
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2,712,440,000 |
| 2008 |
| Oklahoma |
194,600,000 |
222,000,000 |
416,600,000 |
| New Mexico |
244,400,000 |
244,200,000 |
488,600,000 |
| Arizona |
265,000,000 |
244,600,000 |
509,600,000 |
| Alaska |
254,000,000 |
251,800,000 |
505,800,000 |
| Hawaii |
263,600,000 |
254,000,000 |
517,600,000 |
| 2008 Totals |
|
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2,438,200,000 |
| 2009 |
| District of Columbia |
88,800,000 |
83,600,000 |
172,400,000 |
| Puerto Rico |
53,000,000 |
86,000,000 |
139,000,000 |
| Guam |
42,600,000 |
45,000,000 |
87,600,000 |
| American Samoa |
39,600,000 |
42,600,000 |
82,200,000 |
| US Virgin Islands |
41,000,000 |
41,000,000 |
82,000,000 |
| Northern Mariana Islands |
37,600,000 |
35,200,000 |
72,800,000 |
| 2009 Totals |
|
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636,200,000 |
State Quarters Value
Are State Quarters Worth More Than Face-Value?
Only if they are mint/proof sets that might be worth more than face value in the future. But for regular and circulated coins they have face value only.
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