The new quarters that the Treasury Department is circulating are pretty cool. Seeing as they’re issuing one about every ten weeks, it looks like it’ll be ten years before we see Alaska & Hawaii’s final entries.
What is your state’s quarter going to look like? What agency within your state gummit gets final say on this? Did your governor appoint a special comission?
Here in Missouri, Governor Carnahan (or maybe it was someone else) asked schoolchildren to submit possible designs, but I think this was merely to get people interested in the idea, rather than a serious attempt to come up with possible designs.
I’d like to hear some Dopers’ ideas for quarters for their own states. Whimsical and serious ideas are welcome.
BTW, I think Missouri would best be represented by a Meth lab. (g)
Oh, and given the Federal Government’s attitudes toward New York City, I can assume the New York State quarter will feature either Niagara Falls or the Utica City Hall.
Actually, Ukester, each State gets to decide what goes on the back of the quarter, not the Feds. I assume, though, that the Feds have guidelines and veto power to prevent Kansas from sticking a Jesus fish back there or Minnesota’s governor from choosing a prostitute.
So I have to reword your statement. Given Albany’s attitudes toward New York City, I can assume the New York State quarter will feature either Niagara Falls or the Utica City Hall.
Personally, I’d vote for one of the old bullet tokens, back when the subway was a quarter. I think I’ve got a few lying around the apartment. http://www1.usmint.gov/50states/default.htm
I thought the Redskins paid for that stadium by themselves?
Have to put Camden Yards on that coin, as well. Damn, Maryland got a bad deal there, lets give the Orioles this great park, but not ask for anything from them. Yuck. I can’t belive that stuff happens so often.
I think the Skins paid for the stadium, but Maryland had to pay for the parking, the buses to get people there, the roads…grumble You’d think with all the money this area puts into sports facilities, we’d have a GOOD team once in a while! ::wanders off grumbling::
I grew up in NJ and that coin’s already out. Living in the empire state now for college, so I expect something either with the statue of liberty or the adirondacks.
I just want one state to be the wise-ass state and make its tails design identical to the new heads design!
“I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.”
–Wayne Knight
Falcon: I think the Skins paid for the stadium, but Maryland had to pay for the parking, the buses to get people there, the roads…grumble You’d think with all the money this area puts into sports facilities, we’d have a GOOD team once in a while! ::wanders off grumbling::
Not to mentiona @!?#!@ exit off of the Beltway that you can’t use except on game day!
Do you think Snyder wants his $800,000,000.00 back? Did the Skins come with a guarantee?
Well, in a more serious vein, I saw earlier this year that the five possible designs for New York’s quarter will be Henry Hudson’s ship, the Battle of Saratoga, Federal Hall (NYC, where Washington was inaugurated), the Statue of Liberty and the Erie Canal.
Which one gets the nod? I agree that Albany has something of an upstate bent; it’ll probably go with either Henry Hudson or the Battle of Saratoga.
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
