Draped Bust Quarters
The Coinage Act of 1792 authorized the quarter dollar, but the denomination did not appear until 1796, four years after the Mint began operations. When it did arrive, it carried the Draped Bust…
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Quarter Dollars
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Washington Quarters
The coin that eventually became the Washington quarter started as a proposal for a commemorative half dollar to mark the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth. Congress altered the plan:…
Washington Quarters (Statehood & Territories)
Public Law 105-124, signed December 1, 1997, authorized the United States Mint to issue five new quarter reverses per year from 1999 through 2008, one for each state, in the order each state ratified…
Seated Liberty Quarters
The Seated Liberty quarter that appeared in 1838 carried a design Christian Gobrecht had been developing since at least 1835, first applied to the pattern silver dollars of 1836 and then adapted for…
Washington Quarters (America the Beautiful)
The America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-456, signed December 23, 2008) authorized a 56-coin quarter program running from 2010 through 2021, honoring one…
Standing Liberty Quarters
When Mint Director Robert W. Woolley invited three sculptors to submit designs for the quarter in 1915 and 1916, he was responding to the same broad campaign for coinage reform that had produced…
Washington Quarters (American Women)
The obverse of every American Women Quarter carries a portrait of George Washington facing right, originally composed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser in 1931 as her submission for the 1932…
Barber Quarters (Liberty Head)
Charles Barber designed the quarter, dime, and half dollar simultaneously in 1891 and 1892, producing a set of denominations that shared an obverse Liberty portrait while each denomination carried…
Capped Bust Quarters
The Capped Bust quarter appeared in 1815 as the first quarter struck since 1807, repeating the denomination's established pattern of prolonged absences. The quarter had disappeared once before, from…
Twenty Cent Pieces
Nevada Senator John Percival Jones introduced the twenty-cent piece to Congress in 1874 on practical grounds: the Coinage Act of 1873 had abolished the silver trime, the half dime, and the standard…