Suppose we did quarters, but rather than states, they did major cities. What would the iconic images/landmarks of large cities.
New York: Statue of Liberty
Los Angeles: Hollywood sign
Chicago: Hancock (more iconic than Sears, IMHO)
Philadelphia: Independence Hall
Boston: Old State House
Detroit: Renaissance Center
San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge
Seattle: Space Needle
St Louis: Geee, I wonder…
And my city:
Honolulu: Diamond Head
Nashville: Ryman Auditorium or the “Batman Building” (Bell South Building) or the Parthenon. It would depend greatly on who was in charge of the choice, their age, their attitude towards “Music City” and how they regarded “tradition.”
I’d use the Empire State Building, or the Manhattan skyline, rather than the Statue of Liberty for New York City, my home town.
Other cities:
Minneapolis/St. Paul - Mall of America
Houston - Space Center
San Antonio - the Alamo
Orlando - “Spaceship Earth” at Epcot
Baltimore - Fort McHenry
Cleveland - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Louisville - Churchill Downs
Indianapolis - Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Nashville - Grand Ole Opry
Memphis - Graceland
Salt Lake City - Mormon Tabernacle
Orlando - Mickey Mouse Ears
Miami - Hardbodies along South Beach
Clearwater - Fort Harrison Hotel
Tampa - the Mons Venus
St Petersburg - A pair of octogenarians, wandering along the beach at sunset – one of them has a metal detector – they have Canadian tags on their car.
Without a doubt, West Lafayette, Indiana would have this classic view of University Hall (the new version–with only one pointy cupola):
Hmm Denver is harder than I thought. The only big building easily reconizable is the Cash-register, but I never considered it iconic with Denver. The capitol looks like a million other capitols, and there are no easily identifiable mountains I actually associate with Denver.
Red Rocks is about the most Denver-ish thing I can think of, but pretty outside the city.
I guess the new pointy Airport is the best I can come up with,
Champaign-Urbana=Giant space mushroom!
Does that even have a recognizable profile? Would a Skyway map fit on a coin instead?
San Jose: uuuhhhhhhhh… we could put… no. Umm. Suburban sprawl?
Richmond: How about: people shooting at the cops?
More likely would be San Francisco with the Golden Gate Bridge prominently displayed.
What about that gorgeous Richmond-San Rafael Bridge? 
The town I live in (Portsmouth) - probably a crackhouse…heh…
Well, actually I would say the new bridge over the Ohio River.
My hometown? a pizza shop. there is nothing else there…
Brendon
What about Dallas? The grassy knoll?
Lexington: either Memorial Coliseum, the 5/3 building or cars sitting at a red light.
I would have thought Southfork Ranch.
Of the three cities I’ve lived in last:
Minot, ND: Nothing. Just a blank reverse with the following words engraved: “IN GOD WE TRUST, BUT IN THE WIND, WE KNOW”
Great Falls, MT: I’d say the Lewie & Clark thing, but it’s been overdone. I’d suggest a picture of the dam they made put up that make the formerly Great Falls into the now Kinda Okay Falls.
Central Georgia: I don’t know yet. Give me a little more time. . .
Tripler
Yeah, that’s all I got.
Reunion Tower?
Madison: Probably a Badger. As in Bucky. Or the Capitol, but capitol buildings are all kind of genereic looking on coins.
Milwaukee: Beer mug
Chattanooga: a train, probably. Or possibly the Tennessee Aquarium.
Could be worse, they could put the godawful Monona Terror or the Overblown Center on it.
Or a brat. Or both.
