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LANSING, Mich. -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm has nominated Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore as Michigan's entry in the upcoming series of new 25-cent coins. Pictured Rocks is known for its dramatic, colorful rock formations overlooking the Upper Peninsula's Lake Superior shoreline. Congress authorized the new quarter series in December. The coins will mark a national park or other significant historic or geographic location in each state. The U.S. Mint will issue one about every 10 weeks, starting in 2010. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to announce the chosen designs in September. Each state submitted one preferred and three alternate sites. http://www.wnem.com/news/19164167/detail.html |
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The Mint knows a cash cow when it sees one, obviously!
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The mint needs to get back to basics and get back to the regular issue quarters. Enough of the commemoratives already.
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Edited by Andrew289
04/13/2009 10:24 pm
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I have no problem with the new series. If they went back to a static design, consider the possibility that they might design something worse; something that we are stuck with for fifty years or more! That said, I hope they never return to the original Washington quarter design. I consider the " Washington quarter" series complete from 1932 to 1998.  |
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TOPEKA, KANS - (April 1) - Gov. Catrina Civilious has nominated the highest point in Kansas as Kansas' entry in the upcoming series of new 25-cent coins.
"This is it," she is quoted as saying while pointing at a steaming pile of buffalo dung somewhere in Rawlins County on the western edge of Kansas.
Western Kansas is best known for its vast expanses of unobscured ... sky.
Congress authorized the new quarter series in December.
The coins will mark a national park or other significant historic or geographic location in each state. The U.S. Mint will issue one about every 10 weeks, starting in 2010.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to announce the chosen designs in September.
Each state submitted one preferred and three alternate sites.
"Alternative site?" the Governor is quoted as saying after an aide whispered in her ear. Another aide whispered in the other ear, and she was said to have uttered some obscure Anglo-Saxon word that referred to the substance that formed the highest point in Kansas, and ..."You say we're not in Kansas any more, Toto? We're really in eastern Colorado? Well, that does it. I'm nominating the Capitol building as the alternative site and maybe the highest point in Kansas, anyway."
Atop the Capitol building stands a sculpture of a native American, named Ad Astra, clad only in a loin cloth and shooting a bow and arrow towards the North Star.
"Make sure that you take the publicity photo from the north, guys," the Gov ordered the publicity photographers, who were quietly moving away from the highest point in Kansas and holding their noses. "Otherwise people will discover why some people in Topeka call him Bad Astra!"
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Gov. Catrina Civilious has nominated the highest point in Kansas as Kansas' entry in the upcoming series of new 25-cent coins.  ......... PLS ......we must be "brothers from other mothers" !......... TOO FUNNY !..... I also hope you're kidding about that location being "our nominated entry design" though !.....  Flint Hills....Smokey Hills.....Ward Meade Park......Oregon Trail parks/historical sites (of which there are many) .....Underground Railroad Cabins.....Frontier Forts...Pioneer Parks....Pony Express Stations Museum/Parks.....Kansas River.....Historical River Toll Crossings....Cholera Cemetary Historical Parks.......Rock City near Minneapolis, Ks......
etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc....I could go on & on.......but......"the highest place in Kansas" WOULD NOT BE EVEN ON MY LIST ! Edited by eaglefoot
04/14/2009 2:58 pm
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Cholera Cemetery? Whoa - I didn't even know about that one! Man, I'd REALLY like to see a headstone on a coin! Okay, how about a skull and crossbones? Seriously (mostly) the lead editorial in this month's "Coinage" discussed the public's reaction to the reverse side designs on State Quarters. About all the editorialist proved is that very few people will agree on what is an effective committee-designed coin (although most would indeed place the Wisconsin quarter at the bottom of the list. (Sorry, cheeseheads and cow lovers). His top pick was the Connecticut quarter, which indeed is a nice design - but representative of the entire state? Don't think so. I'm not so sure that a buffalo, popular animal that it is on coins, is representative of a state, either (and certainly not TWO of them!). So what's representative of the Great State of Kansas? eaglefoot's excellent ideas aside, I believe that there's just too much that has happened in this state to be condensed into one representative item - buffalo, headstone, scenery, building, etc. Hey - I tried; I actually submitted a design for our State Quarter that probably would have competed with Florida's with too much going on in it, as I included a team of oxen, a grain elevator, and of course a sunflower in my crowded design; I'm still miffed that they chose a shaggy, smelly, ill-tempered beast as being more representative of our beloved state than my conception (okay, oxen can get smelly, too, after a full day of pulling a loaded wagon across the plains). How about this - George Washington on one side, a blank, unstruck planchet on the other. Would that not just be the ultimate representation of Kansas scenery? Think now - my favorite saying to Coloradoans is that their state would be nice if the mountains didn't keep getting in the way of the view! Okay, if a blank doesn't appeal to you, throw in a couple of thunderheads in the middle. Better? So - if a pile of dung or a blank don't grab your ultimate sense of design, how about a nice flower? Yep, I'm talking about that sunflower, although it doesn't smell all that wonderful. Someone with basic good design sense used it as the background for signs designating state highways, and maybe it should also be used on our next state coin, too, with something also representative of the state in the center - maybe the outline, maybe a buffalo head, maybe just the state motto ("Ad Astra per Aspera") in the center. Oh, and Mr. eaglefoot - if you are worried about whether or not I was serious - check out the release date of the story ... |
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Hmm, 50 more new quarters? I've had fun collecting the first 50 State Quarters but I think they should've waited a bit to release a 2nd set. IMHO, this makes the first set a little less special. Ten years from now there's going to be so many different quarters in circulation! Oh well, I'll still collect the next set too. =) |
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Ten years from now there's going to be so many different quarters in circulation!
The only thing that will stop this frenzy and craziness is a total economic collapse of our Govt. and society !......and we don't want that !.... But current troubles should at least halt some of these WILD mintage numbers in the BILLIONS and "new coin series" ideas.....YOU WOULD THINK HUH ?!.  But, on the other hand, MAYBE THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE WHERE THE GOVT. IS " ACTUALLY MAKING PROFITS"....!!.... |
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Yes I saw this at least a year ago also and thought oh no now here we go again where am I going to keep these.
I did not know there would be a 5ounce coin WOW they will cost not as much as gold though. Not sure if I will collect the silver 5 ounce have to see what it will cost for 5 of them each year allot I guess.
Just the cost of silver would be wound around $64.00 per coin so my guess is they will be $99.00 each or a little more.
But I am looking forward to the new series but not trying to get rolls again of both mints allot more trades coming up.
No changing my guess to $ 115.00 each
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04/16/2009 11:37 am
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My sister lives in Hutchinson........and Fort Riley is only about 55 minutes West !.....I know these places well Bio...Though, if indeed it is to be a "State Park Quarter", that is a little more difficult for Kansans. We have few to none in that arena. But we do have a lot of "neat little areas" .....and I know of quite a few "spots" that the general public doesn't even know about......kind of just forgotten about except by the immediate locals. Also, there are a lot of 1800's limestone rock old abandoned School houses and churches......in fact THESE ARE LITERED ACCROSS EASTERN KANSAS ! Those, or the limestone rock fences that we have still existing from the 1800's.....lots of stuff like this might look pretty neat on a Quarter... If it was just called the new " State Historical Quarter".......  Edited by eaglefoot
04/17/2009 1:30 pm
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I'll take a 5 oz. Silver coin for Yellowstone National Park with Old Faithful on it! One 'bummer' here is that I always thought that the Colorado Quarter should have had Pikes Peak on the reverse, with "America The Beautiful" letters. Katherine Lee Bates wrote "America The Beautiful" while on Pikes Peak. Unfortunately, Pikes Peak is NOT a National Park, it's maintained by the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado. So, no Pikes Peak "National Park" Quarter...  |
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i was born and raised in north western North Dakota. I wonder what N.D. reverse will be, a thermometer with -40 on it?
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04/17/2009 4:38 pm
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