Assume the new state quarters are issued on Jan 1, Mar 15, May 27, Aug 8, or Oct 20 of the year they are scheduled to be issued (beginning, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, and 4/5 of the way through the year). Answer the following trivia:
Which state will have the longest time period between their joining the Union and their quarter being issued?
Which state will have the shortest said time period?
Which state will be the first whose said time period is less than 200 years?
Which state will be the first whose said time period is less than 150 years?
Which state will be the first whose said time period is less than 100 years?
Which state will be the first whose said time period is less than 50 years?
The only trivia I’m concerned with is where is my Maryland quarter?
I’ve got my official fifty states quarters collectors board sitting there with five quarters in it and a big hole that says Maryland. Mrs. Pluto works retail so a lot of change passes through her hands. She keeps an eye out but we’ve drawn a blank. Whassup?
Then you’re missing two. So far, seven have been issued, with the eighth, South Carolina, due out at the end of May.
Do you have Massachusetts? It was issued 1/1/2000.
Maryland quarters are quite common here in Virginia. (Matter of fact, a cashier opened a roll of only Marylands to make change for me this morning.) I hesitate to say this, but… if you mail me the equivalent money & postage, I’ll send you the quarters you’re missing. (They’d be Philadelphia mint ones, if that’s a problem.)
For shortest period between admission and coin release only Alaska and Hawaii have any chance. I know Alaska was entered in January 1959 and Hawaii in August 1959. An 8 month difference, but Hawaii’s coin will only be 10 weeks behind Alaska’s.
Shortest period: Hawaii.
The only admission since 1899 have been Oklahoma (1905 I think), New Mexico and Arizona (both 1912). Oklahoma is too early as its coin should be released in 2008 so I would say New Mexico will be the first coin with a gap under 100 years.
The only two states, again, that could have a chance are Hawaii and Alaska. They will be the last two coins in 2008. Both less than 50 years. Alaska comes first so the answer is Alaska.
In case you can’t tell, I am practicing talking it through in case I am ever on WWTBAM?
Thanks for the offer, AWB, but I’ll wait for them to trickle down to me. I was just venting. The others all turned up right after they were released – the Washington State Patrol must be intercepting them or something.
And we do have the Massachusetts quarter – I was visualizing the board and there is one full row (1999) and only one in the 2000 row. So I guess we have six.