1 more time for state quarters
OKLAHOMA CITY - Collected quarters from all 50 states?
Now you'll have the chance to do it all again.
Beginning in 2010, the U.S. Mint will begin producing quarters showing a national site from each of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia and each U.S. territory Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. George Washington's image will be on the other side.
Governors are being asked to recommend sites for representation on the quarter. The U.S. Treasury will make the final decision on designs, which are to be announced later this month.
The new program, created under "America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008" will also release five new quarters per year. They will be issued in the order in which each site was first established as a national site.
