Maybe there's hope for California's quarter design

SDCollector · June 10, 2003 3:30PM

Are we allowed to talk about state quarters?

I'm not a state quarter collector since most of the designs have been disappointing to me, but as a Californian I'm curious about the design of our future state quarter. I just saw one of the California finalist designs on page 2 in the June 16th CW and I really like it. It has all of the design elements that I like:

1. One theme (i.e. not a bunch of different images crammed into every space).
2. An interesting image (Yomesite Valley) that draws you into the picture.
3. No state outline!

My favorite is still Rhode Island. But maybe there's hope for California's design.

Mrpawn · June 10, 2003 3:38PM

Yosemite is undoubtly one of California's greatest atributes and would be a great choice as a theme for the CA state quarter.

jom · June 10, 2003 3:41PM

They are actually considering the Yosemite! YAY!!!! I thought for sure we'd get stuck will some ordinary crap like the Golden Gate <yawn>

jom

carterhaines · June 10, 2003 4:09PM

I think of both Silicon Valley and Hollywood when thinking of major things in California. Unfortunately, neither would be that great of a coin design.

Conder101 · June 10, 2003 11:38PM

It doesn't matter what the finalist designs look like. After they have to give a written description of them (no pictures) to the mint engravers who knows what they will come back looking like. Until they actually let the competition winners actually BE the designs I've pretty much written off the state quarter program. the designs are going to be whatever the mint decides they are going to be so why fuss with it.