The size, weight, and Compositions of U.S. coins are listed.
The quarter is a United States coin worth 25 cents.It has a diameter of 24.26 and a thickness of 0.069.The reverse design of the coin has changed frequently.It has been produced continuously since 1831.[2]
There is a choice of a quarter-dollar as a denominations."Two bits" is a common nickname for a quarter.There is a citation needed.
The current clad version has two layers of cupronickel, 75% copper and 25% nickel on a core of pure copper.The total composition of the coin is nickel and copper.The weight is 0.2000 avoirdupois oz, 1/6 of a pound, and 0.1823 troy oz.The width is 1.75 inches and the diameter is 24.26 inches.The coin has a reeded edge.It was sometimes called a "Johnson Sandwich" after Lyndon B. Johnson, the US President at the time.It cost 11.14 cents to produce each coin in 2011.The U.S. Mint began producing silver quarters again in 1992.The early quarters were larger in diameter and thinner than the current coin.
The Washington quarter is the current regular issue coin.The eagle was on the reverse prior to the 50 State Quarters Program.John Flanagan designed the Washington quarter.It was made a regular issue coin in 1934.
The 50 State quarters program began in 1999.The former Washington quarter has a different reverse for each state.On January 23, 2007, the House of Representatives passed H.R.The state quarter program will be extended to include the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.The bill was signed into law by President George W. Bush as part of Pub.L.On December 27, 2007, the Consolidated Appropriations Act was enacted.Albertus is the type used in the state quarter series, but it varies from state to state.
The bill was titled America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coins Act of 2008.The House of Representatives was introduced to 6184.The bill was signed by President Bush on December 23, 2008.The text is in a PDF.The America the Beautiful quarters program lasted for 12 years.10
It will appear that certain mints did not mint Washington quarters for that year in the "silver series" of quarters.No known examples of quarters were made in 1933, San Francisco abstained in 1934 and 1949, and stopped after 1955, until it resumed in 1968.Denver didn't make quarters in 1938.Proof examples from 1936 to 1942 and 1950 to 1967 were struck at the Philadelphia Mint, but in 1968 proof production was moved to the San Francisco Mint.
Silver quarters are composed of 90% silver, 10% copper and have a total silver weight of 0.1808479 troy ounce pure silver.They were issued from 1932 to 1964.
Denver and San Francisco have branch mintmarks.The main Mint in Philadelphia makes coins without mintmarks.Business strikes are not proof.
The 1936-D coins, as well as many others in the series, are more valuable than other quarters.It's not due to their mintages, but because they are harder to find in high grades.Many of these coins are not worth much.The 1932 Denver and San Francisco issues are two of the most expensive coins in the above list.The overstruck mintmark issues are not as popular as the overdates found in the pre-Washington quarter series.
There are two versions of the 1934 Philadelphia strike, one with a light motto and the other a heavy one.The difference in value between the two is insignificant.
The mint mark on the coin is located beneath the wreath on which the eagle is perched, and can either be found at the Denver Mint, the San Francisco Mint or the Philadelphia Mint.