This may be knowledge that's common to everyone but me, but does anyone know what's gonna happen to the quarter after the States series is completed? Kevin NC
There is talk about having one more year of honoring the territories (Guam, Micronesia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands,and, I think, American Samoa) but I haven't seen the legislation for that. Barring that, we return to Washington on the obverse and the spread eagle on the reverse.
The District of Columbia is also trying to get one, although you're right. No legislation has gone through. I think the term you're looking for is "heraldic eagle." "Spread eagle" just makes me chuckle (and shiver - SBA).
I knew the term was heraldic eagle but it is so tired and 'worn out' that I went with spread eagle. And I don't think the presidents will go on the reverse of the quarter. First of all, we would then have two-headed coins and I think they are going to do a dollar with the presidents.
I hope they completely redesign it. I think the Washington quarter is the most tired, lame looking coin design we have today.
I agree 100%. They are the most boring series we've had to endure. Once the states are done I'd like to see something entirely new. They are so dull I go to sleep every time I go through my collection of them.
The mint should do something where they bring back all the old designs for a year or two. Like all the quarters will be standing liberty but made of clad, and all dimes will be clad mercury dimes with the date 2010 or whatever. That would be sweetness.
I disagree. We should go with new designs. Bringing back one old design (e.g. the Standing Lib) to replace another (Washington with heraldic eagle) is no improvement. The pre-war designs would never come off as they did before. This Mint is too enamored of low relief designs, and would destroy the design we all love and remember. The problem we're going to have with the quarter is that it will require Congressional action to change the design. One design must be used for 25 years before the Treasury Secretary can change it one his own authority. The state quarter design(s) will be either 10 years or just over 10 weeks old in 2009. Even if the law as it stands presently dictates a return to the old Washington design, changing it then is troublesome. Remember that it was last minted in 1998, 22 years after the last coin change (the bicentennial reverse). And remember that no politician is going to want a change on a coin as important as the quarter without having his/her favorite issue (civil rights, victory over Communism, etc.) remembered on the coin. As the old saying goes - and our coinage has proven since the 1960s - "no solution is so permanent as a temporary one."
I remember reading that the 1932 Washington quarter was supposed to be a commemorative for only one year anyhow. Don't remember what it commemerates though, anybody else?
It commemorated the 200th anniversary of Washingtons birth. The real problem with changing the quater is: What politician want to go on record calling for the removal of George Washington from the coinage?
That is the dollar coin. Europeans know what to do with large value coins, but most Americans refuse to use them.
I am surprised that no one suggested Reagan. They seem to want to put his face everywhere and name everything after him.
They could have a Reagan coins like the Ike coins with two profiles. A profile of Reagan superimposed on a profile of Bonzo. I'd even collect that.
