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Final Coin in United States Mint’s 50 State Quarters® Program Available November 3 - Hawaii

GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,910 ✭✭✭✭✭
Hey folks, it's the last state quarter....are you impressed???? image


Final Coin in United States Mint’s 50 State Quarters® Program Available November 3

Hawaii Quarter Signals the End of the Most Successful Coin Program in U.S. History

WASHINGTON - The United States Mint closes the book on one of the most successful coin programs in U.S. history on November 3, 2008, when the final commemorative quarter-dollar coin in the 50 State Quarters® Program, honoring Hawaii, is released into circulation. At noon Eastern Time the same day, customers can begin ordering coin options featuring the Hawaii quarter-dollar that include a two-roll set priced at $32.95, and 100- and 1,000-coin bags priced at $32.95 and $309.95, respectively.

The reverse (tails) design of the Hawaii quarter, by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Don Everhart, features Hawaiian monarch King Kamehameha I with his right hand extended toward the eight major Hawaiian Islands. Inscriptions include the State motto, "UA MAU KE EA O KA ‘?INA I KA PONO" ("The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness"), "Hawaii" and "1959."

The coins contained in the bags and rolls were struck on the main production floors of the United States Mint at Denver and Philadelphia for use in general circulation. The two-roll set includes one roll each of 40 coins-bearing the "D" and "P" mint marks-wrapped in distinctive packaging displaying the 50 State Quarters logo, the mint of origin, the official state abbreviation and the dollar value of the contents. Each canvas bag has a tag denoting the mint of origin and the state abbreviation.

The Hawaii quarter will be launched in a ceremony at Bishop Square in downtown Honolulu at noon (Hawaii Standard Time) on November 10, 2008.

Customers can purchase the bags and two-roll sets of Hawaii quarters at the United States Mint's secure Web site, www.usmint.gov, or by calling 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468). Hearing- and speech-impaired customers may order by calling 1-888-321-MINT (6468). Domestic orders include a $4.95 fee per order for shipping and handling. Quarter bags of 1,000 coins will have an additional charge of $7.95 per bag because of their weight and size.

The United States Mint launched the multi-year 50 State Quarters Program in 1999. Approximately 147 million Americans collect the 50 State Quarters coins. In 2009, the United States Mint will launch a new coin program to honor the District of Columbia and the U.S. Territories, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

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  • ttownttown Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭
    They should have killed it this year, but now it's not finial since we've got an extension for a new group. image
  • CasmanCasman Posts: 3,935 ✭✭
    I'm glad at least the 50 states are done after piling up the $25 minibags for the last 10 years space is becoming an issue...I realize most will be worth little but once I started that I just had to finish it...image
  • omigod it's the Big Kahuna!
  • Whoop-de-doo !
  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>They should have killed it this year, but now it's not finial since we've got an extension for a new group. image >>



    There are only 50 states, so it will be done this year. Next year is a new program that I have no interest in.

    After 10 years, I am down to 2 holes in my P&D Dansco Album, and 2 slots in the last blue PCGS box for my registry set.

    It will be strange completing a set of current coins. I wonder when I will be able to do this with my Jefferson's.
    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,010 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Aren't they going to do 5 additional coins for D.C. and the territories?
    When in doubt, don't.
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    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The state quarter program is finished... anything else is just an addendum - and they are NOT states. Cheers, RickO
  • heavymetalheavymetal Posts: 630 ✭✭✭✭
    I have the State Quarters Program to thank for my entering into serious coin collecting. Once I contracted the coin bug, it spread. I trust that on some future date, my sons will be exceedingly thankful that the US Mint ( and Congress), long ago, changed one of it's long struck designs, thereby creating hundreds of new coin collectors. HM


  • << <i>The state quarter program is finished... anything else is just an addendum - and they are NOT states. Cheers, RickO >>



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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kinda looks like he just blew chunks image
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Kinda looks like he just blew chunks " image Good one Broadstruck.... Cheers, RickO

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