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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 209783, member: 669&quot;]C&#039;mon guys - you&#039;re really beating a dead horse on the issue of &quot;State Quarters&quot; designation for territories and possessions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am unaware of any pending bill which expressly calls for additional quarters to be part of the &quot;State Quarters&quot; program.&nbsp; None of the bills, or potential bills, I&#039;ve seen mentioned include any reference to the State Quarter program, and it&#039;s the journalists writing about them who make the link.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to the <a href="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/" rel="nofollow">CIA World Factbook</a>: <ul> <li>Puerto Rico is a territory of the US &quot;with Commonwealth status&quot;.</li> <li>American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, Navassa Island, Wake Island and Guam are ordinary territories.</li> <li>Midway Island, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Palmyra Atoll, Kingman Reef and Johnston Atoll are all territories, jointly comprising the United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges.</li> <li>The Federated States of Micronesia, however is a former UN Trust Territory under US administration, which attained independence under a &quot;Compact of Free Association with the US&quot;,&nbsp; it has a different status entirely.</li> <li>Under their unique relationship to the US, the Northern Mariana Islands also have a non-territory status.</li> </ul><p></p><p>And, of course, the District of Colombia is a federal &quot;district&quot;, not a territory.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Other US Entity Quarters&quot; is a rather cumbersome name for a Mint program, but I can&#039;t think of any other completely accurate designation.&nbsp; Perhaps &quot;State Quarter Extension Program&quot; would be appropriate for a program to mint quarters for some, or all, of those 16 varied entities. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Or, how about calling it the &quot;District and Territory Quarters Program&quot;, and excluding what used to be lumped together as the Pacific Trust Territories - the Micronesian States and Marianas?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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