# The best state quarter design ever, rejected... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203 "2007-04-22T20:32:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/21 "2007-04-23T16:51:08Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] I mean, what’s cooler than a tyrannosaur? Well, a tyrannosaur in an F-14, of course, but other than that. [/QUOTE] Yes, I suppose no self-respecting T-Rex would be caught dead in an F-22. ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/22 "2007-04-23T17:02:16Z")
Hey, it’s all good. Nevada. We’re known for several things, but here are the top three: Legalized gambling, legalized prostitution, and legal access to liquor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week…for free in some places. What’s on our quarter? A fucking “[wild horse](http://quarterdesigns.com/winners/nv_winner.html)”. I put “wild horse” in quotation marks because by definition, these horses are not wild but feral, and I dislike anything commemorating something that’s, to most of the people of Nevada, a nuisance. They keep running into roads and getting hit, or running into roads and getting avoided and causing accidents between cars. [These were the proposed designs](http://quarterdesigns.com/proposed/nevada.html). The state actually passed a resolution saying that there would be nothing about gambling or prostitution in the quarter design. WTF? Those are two of the things that define Nevada today. No one gives a shit about our mineral wealth or our ranching history or our fucking horses. Does anyone come to Las Vegas to catch a wild horse or learn about the Comstock Lode? No. They come here to play roulette and possibly make it with a high-end prostitute. I think it shoulda been one singular card. Anyone, although I personally would root for the ace of spades. ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/23 "2007-04-23T18:13:24Z")
I think we got one of the cooler ones. [http://www.usmint.gov/mint\_programs/50sq\_program/states/index.cfm?state=tn&CFID=8604991&CFTOKEN=34053597](http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/50sq_program/states/index.cfm?state=tn&CFID=8604991&CFTOKEN=34053597) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/24 "2007-04-23T18:17:19Z")
That Nevada one with the miner reminds me of _American Gothic_ for some reason. Which could have been on [Iowa’s](http://www.quarterdesigns.com/proposed/iowa/GW_americangothic_72.jpg) coin, but they went with a lesser-known [Grant Wood](http://webs.cedar-rapids.net/kwradio/arborday.html) painting [instead.](http://www.quarterdesigns.com/proposed/iowa/IA_4_full.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/25 "2007-04-23T18:21:34Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] I mean, what’s cooler than a tyrannosaur? Well, a tyrannosaur in an F-14, of course, but other than that. [/QUOTE] Thanks for the _Calvin & Hobbes_ flashback. Best laugh I’ve had today. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/26 "2007-04-23T18:22:59Z")
[QUOTE=tashabot] Hey, it’s all good. Nevada. We’re known for several things, but here are the top three: Legalized gambling, legalized prostitution, and legal access to liquor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week…for free in some places. What’s on our quarter? A fucking “[wild horse](http://quarterdesigns.com/winners/nv_winner.html)”. I put “wild horse” in quotation marks because by definition, these horses are not wild but feral, and I dislike anything commemorating something that’s, to most of the people of Nevada, a nuisance. They keep running into roads and getting hit, or running into roads and getting avoided and causing accidents between cars. [/QUOTE] Not to mention some anatomically unlikely horses. Who drew those, Napoleon Dynamite? The horse in back has exactly no legs supporting him, and a broken ankle, it appears. And is the middle one swimming? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/27 "2007-04-23T18:25:47Z")
[QUOTE=tashabot] I think it shoulda been one singular card. Anyone, although I personally would root for the ace of spades.~Tasha [/QUOTE] They should have made it look like a poker chip. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/28 "2007-04-23T18:37:27Z")
[QUOTE=tashabot] A fucking “[wild horse](http://quarterdesigns.com/winners/nv_winner.html)”. \ Does anyone come to Las Vegas to catch a wild horse or learn about the Comstock Lode? No. They come here to play roulette and possibly make it with a high-end prostitute. [/QUOTE] Err… at the _Mustang_ Ranch? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/29 "2007-04-23T19:01:02Z")
Like most people in my state, I was disappointed by the design chosen for [Idaho](http://quarterdesigns.com/proposed/idaho.html). I would have rather seen the design in the middle on the bottom become our state’s quarter. The one on the right is okay, too. Oh well, at least they didn’t go with the obvious and put a potato on the quarter. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/30 "2007-04-23T19:28:53Z")
I still think Washington State should have used a profile of [their state’s namesake.](http://www.coinfacts.com/quarter_dollars/50_states_quarters/50_states_quarter_obv_large.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/31 "2007-04-23T19:39:23Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Err… at the _Mustang_ Ranch? 😉 [/QUOTE] Well, considering it’s now called something like “The World Famous Brothel” and it’s owned by someone else… Then again, we coulda just had a leg in a garter to commemorate our illustrious career of ho’s. ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/32 "2007-04-23T20:48:17Z")
[QUOTE=Gentle Robot] Come on. That mushroom cloud looks like like a wilting mushroom, a tree, or a molten pile of shit. [/QUOTE] Or a very badly eroded buttplug. Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/33 "2007-04-23T22:24:32Z")
[QUOTE=Brynda] I think we got one of the cooler ones. [http://www.usmint.gov/mint\_programs/50sq\_program/states/index.cfm?state=tn&CFID=8604991&CFTOKEN=34053597](http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/50sq_program/states/index.cfm?state=tn&CFID=8604991&CFTOKEN=34053597) [/QUOTE] You sure did! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203/34 "2007-04-23T23:53:58Z")
If they’d gone with the mushroom cloud, they should have used the motto: _e pluribus uranium_ 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-state-quarter-design-ever-rejected/401203.md?page=1)