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Coin Information The Lincoln Commemorative Silver Dollar was authorized under H.R. 2808 Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Coin Act. It authorizes the production of up to 500,000 commemorative silver dollars featuring Abraham Lincoln. This is one of two commemorative coin programs for 2009. The obverse of the coin was designed by Justin Kunz and sculpted by Don [...]

Coin Information The Hawaii State Quarter was released on November 3, 2008. This was the 50th coin in the State Quarter series, continuing the final year of the series. A launch ceremony was held at Bishop’s Square in downtown Honolulu. The obverse of the coin was designed by William Cousins, based on the original Washington [...]

Coin Information The Alaska State Quarter was released on August 25, 2008. This was the 49th coin in the State Quarter series, continuing the final year of the series. A launch ceremony was held on the Colony Stage at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer. The obverse of the coin was designed by William Cousins, [...]

Coin Information The Arizona State Quarter was released on June 2, 2008. This was the 48th coin in the State Quarter series, continuing the final year of the series. A launch ceremony was held on the State Capitol Senate Lawn. The obverse of the coin was designed by William Cousins, based on the original Washington [...]

Coin Information The New Mexico State Quarter was released on April 7, 2008. This was the 47th coin in the State Quarter series, continuing final year of the series. A launch ceremony was held in the Capitol Rotunda in Santa Fe. The obverse of the coin was designed by William Cousins, based on the original [...]

Coin Information The Oklahoma State Quarter was released on January 28, 2008. This was the 46th coin in the State Quarter series. It also started the final year of the State Quarter series. A launch ceremony was held at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City. The obverse of the coin was designed by William [...]

So far, the United States Mint has produced an astounding 34 billion quarters during the course of the 50 State Quarters series. Production peaked in 2001 when nearly 1.6 billion Virginia Quarters were produced. Although recent production numbers have not regained these initial lofty numbers, they have remained very high. The tables below present the [...]

Coin Series The 50 State Quarters series was authorized by Public Law 105-124, the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act.  This was signed into law on December 1, 1997. The Act authorized the design and issuance of a circulating commemorative quarter dollar coin for each of the 50 States. For the new series, the obverse [...]

The Eisenhower Dollar series was produced from 1971 to 1978. Coins issued for circulation were minted at the Philadelphia and Denver Mints. The highest mintage year was 1976, which was the year of the Bicentennial reverse design. Also notably, coins minted in 1975 were dated 1976. The smallest mintage year was 1973. This year, the [...]

Coin Series The Eisenhower Dollar coin series was introduced in 1971. This marked the return of the large sized dollar coin after a pause of nearly 30 years. The series was only issued until 1978 when it was replaced by the smaller sized Susan B. Anthony Dollar. Even though the series only encompassed eight years, [...]