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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 5132365, member: 101855"][ATTACH=full]1204268[/ATTACH] The 1999 Delaware State Quarter was the first of the State Quarter series. Five coin were issued per year for ten years. The State Quarter and America the Beautiful Programs, 1999 to Present       In 1999 the mint introduced the State Quarter Program. The State Quarters were issued, five per year, over a ten year period in the order that each state had joined the Union. Delaware, the first state, began the program. Hawaii, the 50th state ended it. Collectors, rookie and veteran, anticipated each new coin, and the program encouraged a great many people to get involved in coin collecting.       In 2009, the program was extended to include the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories. The territories were Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. These new designs failed to generate as much collector interest as there had been for the State Quarter Program.       Two thousand ten marked the beginning of the America the Beautiful Quarter Program, which is scheduled to run until 2021. The purpose of this program is to honor sites which have “natural or historic significance.” Like the territories, the American the Beautiful Program has been greeted with much less enthusiasm than the State Quarter Program. As the public’s buying habits change and inflation eats away its value, collectors might wonder about what the future holds for coins in general and the quarter in particular. Coins have been a part of the economy since ancient times, but one has to wonder if someday our money might be no more than an electronic marker in the financial system instead of a physical presence in our wallets, purses and pockets. [/QUOTE]

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