A Montana City Name is Inscribed on a 2020 US Quarter
I m not a coin collector but when I was a kid my grandmother would give us rolls of wheat pennies and pre-1964 nickels for our birthdays. My mom told us they were more valuable than normal change, because the old pennies were actually made with real copper and the old nickels contained mostly nickel.
Current coins in production contain very small amounts of precious metal. In fact, nickels and pennies cost more to make than their face value. CoinNews.net reported that a penny cost 1.76 cents to make in 2020 and a nickel cost 7.42 cents to make. Seems like a perfect example of government fiscal ineptitude, doesn t it? Anyway, by habit, I always look at my change to see if maybe I ll score something pre-1964 or other randomly interesting coins.
American women who shaped history are coming soon to quarters, just like George Washington
Up to five quarters a year will depict female leaders, from the suffrage and civil rights movements to government and the arts, starting in 2022.
Debra Fischer and Catherine Cortez Masto
Opinion contributors
When we buy something at the grocery store and the cashier gives us our change, we see two things on the quarters they give us. On one side, we see the face of George Washington. On the other, most quarters bear an eagle, a symbol of one of the 50 states, or an image of one of America’s stunning national parks.
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George Washington and his Continental Army forces crossed the
Delaware River to stage a surprise attack on British-aligned
Hessian soldiers, the
2021 Washington quarter. It features a design that honors Washington’s historic yet often mythologized 300-yard voyage.
Given that we are fast approaching the end of the year, I would not be surprised to find out that the new design was already in production.
Assuming my math is correct, this will be the 114th reverse that has been married to some version of
John Flanagan’s Washington quarter obverse. The
Heraldic Eagle, the Washington quarter’s original backside, appeared uninterrupted from 1932 to 1974.