What's On Your State Quarter?

Oklahoma - 1st coin to be released next year. They just finished tallying the votes and this reverse at the top won. It was definitely the best of the rest IMHO.

http://www.quarterdesigns.com/propo...klahoma.html


The state bird is a scissor-tail flycatcher. Really neat birds when you see them flying because of the long tail.

The flower (which is actually a wildflower)is called the Indian Blanket.

Here is a website that tells more about the state I was born and live in.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/us...es/oklahoma/

Mine has a space shuttle and some palm trees on the beach. It has a pirate ship too. My state is awesome.

My state is Pennsylvania:


Here is a description from the US Mint website about the design on the reverse:
The Pennsylvania quarter, the second coin in the 50 State Quarters® Program, depicts the statue "Commonwealth," an outline of the state, the state motto, and a keystone. This design was chosen to further help educate people about the origins of our second state, founded on December 12, 1787.

The statue "Commonwealth," designed by New York sculptor Roland Hinton Perry, is a bronze-gilded 14' 6" high female form that has topped Pennsylvania's state capitol dome in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania since May 25, 1905. Her right arm extends in kindness and her left arm grasps a ribbon mace to symbolize justice. The image of the keystone honors the states nickname, "The Keystone State." At a Jefferson Republican victory rally in October 1802, Pennsylvania was toasted as "the keystone in the federal union." The modern persistence of this designation is justified in view of the key position of Pennsylvania in the economic, social, and political development of the United States

~christina

My State is New York. (Another from the U.S. mint website.)

Designed by Daniel Carr


The New York quarter's reverse features the Statue of Liberty, the state outline, the words, "Gateway to Freedom", and 11 stars representing the number of states when it entered the union.

The New York quarter, the first quarter of the 2001 series, features the Statue of Liberty superimposed over an outline of the state along with the inscription "Gateway to Freedom." Also incorporated into the state outline is a line tracing the Hudson River and the route of the Erie Canal.

This final New York design celebrates the "Empire State" as a point of entry for millions of immigrants seeking the political freedom and democracy that American citizenship provides. President Grover Cleveland accepted the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, on behalf of the United States on October 28, 1886. Lady Liberty was designated a National Monument on October 15, 1924 and underwent extensive restoration for her remarkable centennial on July 4, 1986. Governor George E. Pataki asked the United States Mint to add the line tracing the Hudson River and the route of the Erie Canal because of the vital developmental role of the waterways.

Governor Pataki's office requested design ideas from the residents of New York and received hundreds of suggestions from school children, history buffs, graphic artists and coin collectors across the state. On June 19, 2000, Governor Pataki unveiled five candidate designs. They included Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon; a rendering of the historic painting, "Battle of Saratoga"; the Statue of Liberty; and the New York Federal Building. New Yorkers were encouraged to write or email Pataki's office to vote for their favorite design. Capturing 76% of the vote, the Statue of Liberty design was officially selected by Governor Pataki to adorn the reverse of the New York quarter.

mila_

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Hey, Mila cent,
You forgot to add that Daniel Carr did the NY State Quarter design.

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Thank you for pointing that out, edix. My apoligies to Mr. Carr So sorry -- What was I thinking

mila_

I'm from Massachusetts. The "minuteman" on our State Quarter represents the every-day people that rose up during the revolutionary war to fight the British. The coin design resulted from a contest of elementry school children.

Massachusetts is also known for it's colleges (Harvard, MIT, etc.) cutting edge helathcare and high-tech/biotech industry. President John F Kennedy (who is on the Kennedy half dollar) was from my state, but now all the politicians we turn out are crazy, liberal whack-jobs.

I'm from California:

Colorado.

Colorado is basically a rectangle in shape, divided into three zones.

The eastern one-third is flat, with open range. Farming, ranching, and empty, wide open spaces.

The middle third is mountains. The Rockies have many peaks at 14,000 plus elevation. Many picturesque towns. Lots of recreation such as camping, hunting, fishing, boating, snowmobiling, skiing. Leadville is a good-sized town situated at 10,000 feet. The western one-third, where I live, is known as the Western Slope. It includes mountains, hills and mesas. Our area is not heavily populated. The largest town is Grand Junction at about 60,000 people. Most people live on the "front range," which is where the plains end and the mountains begin -- Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, and Pueblo. Two-thirds of the state is very scenic. Beautiful mountains, waterfalls, deep canyons. Wildlife is abundant, including deer, elk, pronghorn antelope, bison, mountain lion, lynx, bobcats, hawks, eagles, moose (recently re-introduced), rabbits, fox, mountain sheep, ground hogs, bison, turtles, frogs, chipmunks -- and the list goes on, and on. Our population is growing (not necessarily a good thing) thanks mainly to immigrants from Mexico, and people drawn here by new industries and a desire to get away from big city life.

All in all, a pretty neat place to live.

Mila_,

No problem ... even the US Mint "forgot" to mention on their web site that I designed the NY and RI State Quarters.

In the case of NY, I would say it wasn't really "designing", but more like "arranging the furniture".

The US Mint's web page about the Rhode Island State Quarter left out an important fact http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs...cfm?state=RI
The ship is the "Reliance", which was built in RI and won the America's Cup race in 1903.

And regarding the Colorado quarter ...
The Governor said that he chose the design because it was a "generic" mountain scene and didn't show any particular place. But the mountain shown on the coin is definitely Long's Peak - I can see it from my window :)