Quarter 42

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You've heard of the Washington dollar. Here's the Washingtom quarter. 

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Peter


Two-bit party for new Washington coin
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

SEATTLE -- The state is holding a two-bit party for a new coin.

The Washington quarter is being launched this afternoon in a ceremony with Gov. Gregoire at the Seattle Center.

Some children will receive the coins free and the public can buy ten-dollar rolls of the coins stamped with Mount Rainier and a salmon.

The U.S. Mint is producing more than 500 million of the quarters in the program that honors states in the order they entered the Union.

Washington is the 42nd state. The next one will be Idaho.

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And here is another Washington quarter.   This time it's Washington DC ...

The quarter dedicated to the District of Columbia will be the first one in the 2009 series of six territorial quarters. Now that the 50 states are "done", the capital district and five territories will be honored. So expect this one to be issued in late January or early February. It features the jazz musician Duke Ellington who was born in Washington DC.


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Note that the US Mint refused the originally planned motto "Taxation without Representation" which refers to the special status of the federal district. After the DC Quarter, the following quarter dollars will be issued, one every two months: Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands.

Oh, in case you think that was it -- forget it. After the state quaters and the territorial quarters, expect to see a whole new series (2010-) of National Park Quarters. Both houses of the US Congress voted for it, so the signature of a lame duck is all that is now needed ...

Christian

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What is the connection between justice for all and Duke Ellington?

Peter

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What is the connection between justice for all and Duke Ellington?

Peter

Erm, they appear on the same coin?

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That motto replaced the original "Taxation ..." statement on all three designs (Duke Ellington, Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Banneker) for the DC quarter. So no matter which design had won the contest, the motto would always have been "Justice for All".

Guess they had to come up with an alternative fairly fast, and thus picked the justice motto. Not bad actually - in the US you cannot really go wrong with words from the Pledge of Allegiance.

Christian