Washington, D.C. State Quarter?

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• bohica268 Posts: 478 ✭

  May 27, 2004 9:47PM

  There has been discussion of "State" quarters for 5 U.S. Territories and D.C. So far nothing has come of it. I'm sure a real D.C. quarter would not look as nice as the one being offered.

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• fivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 27, 2004 9:48PM

  National mint is not a real US mint.
  The real US mint statehood quarter program will include a Washington district of Columbia quarter.

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• kranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭

  May 27, 2004 9:50PM

  These outfits always skirt the boundary between outright lies and merely confusing. In this case, ".999 Pure Silver clad" means there is a very thin (100 mil thick) coating of silver applied to a base metal coin.
  
  Nice design by board member dcarr, though.
  
  And isn't the term "State Quarter" a trademark of the US Mint?

  New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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• MadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭

  May 27, 2004 9:51PM

  National Collectors Mint, the same people who brought you the 1889-CC Proof Clad Dollar and the 1933 Plated $20 Gold coin!!!

  It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
  
  

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• Neptune Posts: 2,221

  May 27, 2004 9:58PM

  OK - IC ........ it's a clad coin coated with silver ........ and this statement isn't true:?
  
  In 2002, a bill was introduced in Congress to extend the Statehood Quarter Program to include a U.S. Quarter commemorating Washington, DC. But the bill was anonymously blocked in the Senate,
  
  I hadn't ever heard of these folks, so figured they were probably shady.

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• bohica268 Posts: 478 ✭

  May 27, 2004 10:00PM

  H.R. 5010—DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND U.S. TERRITORIES CIRCULATING QUARTER
  DOLLAR PROGRAM ACT
  
  THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2000
  
  
  "State Quarters" for: District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
  
  Not adding an 11th year to the SQ program is throwing money away. Page 5:
  
  ''Here is the deal. It costs 4 cents to make a quarter, and the Federal Reserve sells them for 25 cents to the bank. That is a 21-cent profit.'' It is really not profit. You just hold that until somebody turns them back in. But something unusual is happening here. Nobody is turning them back in."
  
  

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• Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  May 27, 2004 11:24PM

  The only real lie they make is in the description of the thickness of the silver plating. They call it 100 mil. Now a mil by definiton is "a thousandth". So in this case it would be a thousandth of an inch so 100 mil would be a tenth of an inch thick. Now a plating layer a tenth of an inch thick on each side would give you a coin thicker than a normal coin just from the silver plating. What they are doing is using mil to mean millionth of an inch r a thousand tmes tinner than what the word actually means. That gives you a silver plating layer of one ten thousandth of an inch thick. Half the thickness of the plating layer the mint uses on the Lincoln cent.
  
  I do agree that the design is better than you see on most of our state quarters. It's no surprise though since Daniel Carr has done some of the best designs I've seen submitted for the state quarter program and his design or an adaptation of his design has appeared on three of them so far. (RI, NY, & ME)

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