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Current denomination of Us currency

Quarter dollar
Obverse
The states
Value	0.25 U.South. Dollar
Mass	5.67 g
Diameter	24.26 mm (0.955 in)
Thickness	1.75 mm (0.069 in)
Border	119 reeds
Composition	From 1965: 91.67% Cu, eight.33% Ni 1932–1964: 6.25 grams, 90% Ag, 10% Cu
Years of minting	1796, 1804–1807, 1815–1828, 1831–1930, 1932, 1934–present

Blueprint	George Washington bust
Designer	Laura Gardin Fraser
Blueprint date	1931
Design used	2022–
Reverse
Blueprint	George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River
Designer	Benjamin Sowards
Blueprint date	2021

The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a Usa money worth 25 cents, ane-quarter of a dollar. The coin sports the profile of George Washington on its obverse, and after 1998 its reverse design has changed frequently. It has been produced on and off since 1796 and consistently since 1831.^[1]

It has a diameter of 0.955 inch (24.26 mm) and a thickness of 0.069 inch (1.75 mm). Its current version is composed of two layers of cupronickel (75% copper, 25% nickel) clad on a core of pure copper. ^[2] With the cupronickel layers comprising 1/3 of full weight, the money's overall composition is therefore 8.33% nickel, 91.67% copper. Its weight is 5.670 grams (0.1823 troy oz, or 0.2000 avoirdupois oz).

Designs before 1932 [edit]

The choice of a quarter-dollar every bit a denomination, as opposed to the 1⁄5 or the 20-cent piece that is more common elsewhere; it originated with the exercise of dividing Castilian milled dollars into 8 wedge-shaped segments, which gave ascension to the proper name "piece of eight" for that coin.^[3] "Two $.25" (that is, 2 eighths of a slice of 8) is a mutual nickname for a quarter.

From 1796 the quarter was minted with 6.739 g of 89.24% fine silver (six.014 grand fine silver), revised to 90% fine silver from 1838 to 1964. It weighed vi.682 g from 1838, 6.22 g from 1853, and half-dozen.25 yard from 1873 to 1964. Half-dozen designs, v regular and one commemorative, have been issued until 1930:

Draped Bust 1796–1807
- Draped Bust, Small-scale Eagle 1796^[4]
- Draped Bust, Heraldic Hawkeye 1804–1807^[5]
Capped Bust 1815–1838
- Capped Bust (Large Size), With Motto 1815–1828^[half-dozen]
- Capped Bust (Small-scale Size), No Motto 1831–1838^[7]
Seated Freedom 1838–1891
- Seated Freedom, No Motto 1838–1865^[8]
- Seated Liberty, With Motto 1866–1891^[9]
Barber 1892–1916^[ten]
Isabella quarter commemorative 1893
Standing Freedom 1916–1930^[11]
- Standing Liberty (Type one) 1916–1917 (featured an paradigm of Liberty with one of her breasts exposed^[12])
- Continuing Liberty (Blazon ii or Type 2a) 1917–1924
- Standing Liberty (Type three or Type 2b) 1925–1930

Capped Bust quarter, 1822
Liberty Seated quarter with arrows & rays, 1853
Hairdresser quarter, 1914
Type one Standing Liberty Quarter with blank chest, 1917
Standing Liberty quarter, 1924

Washington quarter [edit]

The original version of the Washington quarter issued from 1932 to 1998 was designed by sculptor John Flanagan. The obverse depicted George Washington facing left, with "Freedom" above the caput, the appointment below, and "In God We Trust" in the left field. The reverse depicted an eagle with wings outspread perches on a bundle of arrows framed below by 2 olive branches.

It was minted in half-dozen.25 1000 of 90% fine silver until 1964, when rising silver prices forced the change into the present-day cupronickel-clad-copper limerick, which was also called the "Johnson Sandwich" after then-president Lyndon B. Johnson. ^[13] As of 2011, it cost 11.14 cents to produce each coin. ^[14]

Regular issue Washington quarters:

Argent quarter, 1932–1964^[fifteen]
Clad limerick quarter, 1965–1998
50 State quarters, 1999–2008
Commune of Columbia and U.s. Territories quarters, 2009
America the Beautiful quarters, 2010–2021
Washington Crossing the Delaware, 2021
American Women quarters, 2022–2025^[16]
Semiquincentennial quarters, 2026^[xvi]
Youth Sports quarters, 2027–2030^[xvi]

Commemorative and bullion result Washington quarters:

United States Bicentennial coinage quarter in clad & forty% silver, 1975–1976 (all were dated 1776–1976)
Argent proof set quarter, 1992–1998
America the Beautiful silver bullion coins in 5-ounce argent, 2010–2021

Obverse and reverse of Washington quarter, 1983 (clad composition)
Opposite of bicentennial quarter, 1976

US states and territories quarters, 1999–2009 [edit]

In 1999, the 50 Land quarters program of circulating commemorative quarters began. These have a modified Washington obverse and a different reverse for each country, ending the quondam Washington quarter's product completely.^[17] On January 23, 2007, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 392 extending the state quarter plan one twelvemonth to 2009, to include the District of Columbia and the five inhabited Us territories: Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.s.a. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The nib passed through the Senate, and was signed into legislation by President George W. Bush as part of Pub.Fifty. 110–161: the Consolidated Appropriations Act (text) (PDF), on December 27, 2007.^[18] ^[19] The typeface used in the state quarter series varies a scrap from ane state to some other, simply is generally derived from Albertus.^{[ citation needed ]}

America the Beautiful quarters, 2010–2021 [edit]

On June 4, 2008, the America'southward Cute National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008, H.R. 6184, was introduced to the Firm of Representatives. On December 23, 2008, President Bush signed the beak into police as Pub.L. 110–456 (text) (PDF). The America the Cute quarters plan began in 2010 and ended in 2021, lasting 12 years and depicting a natural or celebrated site for each state and territory.^[20]

2021: Return of the original obverse, new legislation [edit]

Post-obit the conclusion of the America the Cute quarter serial in 2021, Treasury Secretarial assistant Steven Mnuchin had the option of ordering a 2nd round of 56 quarters, but did not do so past the end of 2018 as required in the 2008 legislation.

The quarter'due south blueprint for 2021 therefore reverted to Flanagan'southward original obverse design, paired with a new contrary rendition of Washington crossing the Delaware River on the dark of December 25, 1776. In Oct 2019, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) met to consider designs, with the final choice made by Mnuchin.^[21] On Dec 25, 2020, the Mint announced the successful design, past Benjamin Sowards as sculpted past Michael Gaudioso. This quarter was released into circulation on April v, 2021, and was minted until the end of 2021.^[22]

The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 (Pub.Fifty. 116–330 (text) (PDF)) established 3 new serial of quarters for the side by side decade. From 2022 to 2025, the Mint may produce up to five coins each year featuring prominent American women, with a new obverse design of Washington. In 2026, there will be upwardly to five designs representing the Us Semiquincentennial. From 2027 to 2030, the Mint may produce up to five coins each year featuring youth sports. The obverse will as well be redesigned in 2027, and even afterwards 2030 is nevertheless to describe Washington.^[23]

American Women Quarters [edit]

The American Women Quarters Programme will upshot up to v new reverse designs each year from 2022 to 2025 featuring the accomplishments and contributions made in diverse fields past women to American history and development. The obverse features Laura Gardin Fraser's portrait of George Washington originally intended for the first Washington quarter in 1932.^[24]

Collecting silvery Washington quarters [edit]

The "silvery series" of Washington quarters spans from 1932 to 1964; during many years in the series information technology will appear that certain mints did not mint Washington quarters for that year. No known examples of quarters were made in 1933, San Francisco abstained in 1934 and 1949, and stopped after 1955, until information technology resumed in 1968 by fashion of making proofs. Denver did not make quarters in 1938. Proof examples from 1936 to 1942 and 1950 to 1967 were struck at the Philadelphia Mint; in 1968, proof production was shifted to the San Francisco Mint. The current rarities for the Washington quarter "silver series" are:

Co-operative mintmarks are D = Denver, S = San Francisco. Coins without mintmarks were all made at the main Mint in Philadelphia. This listing is for concern strikes, non proofs:

1932-D
1932-Due south
1934 – with Doubled Die Obverse (DDO)
1935-D
1936-D
1937 – with Doubled Die Obverse (DDO)
1937-S
1938-Southward
1939-S
1940-D
1942-D – with Doubled Dice Obverse (DDO)
1943 – with Doubled Die Obverse (DDO)
1943-S – with Doubled Die Obverse (DDO)
1950-D/S Over mintmark (coin is a 1950-D, with underlying Southward mintmark)
1950-S/D Over mintmark (coin is a 1950-S, with underlying D mintmark)

The 1940-D, 1936-D and the 1935-D coins, also as many others in the series, are considerably more than valuable than other quarters. This is not due to their mintages, only rather because they are harder to notice in high grades (a situation referred to as "status rarity"). Many of these coins are worth only melt value in low grades. Other coins in the in a higher place list are expensive because of their extremely low mintages, such as the 1932 Denver and San Francisco bug. The overstruck mintmark issues are as well scarce and expensive, especially in the higher grades; fifty-fifty so they may not have the same popularity as overdates institute in pre-Washington quarter series.

The 1934 Philadelphia strike appears in two versions: one with a light motto [for "In God We Trust"], which is the same as that used on the 1932 strikings, and the other a heavy motto seen later the dies were reworked. Except in the highest grades, the difference in value betwixt the two is minor.

The mint mark on the coin is located on the opposite beneath the wreath on which the eagle is perched, and will either carry the mint marker "D" for the Denver Mint, "S" for the San Francisco Mint, or be blank if minted at the Philadelphia Mint.

Collecting clad Washington quarters [edit]

The copper-nickel clad Washington quarter was kickoff issued in 1965 and as function of the switch, the Denver mintmark was added in 1968, which did not reappear on any U.s.a. money denomination until 1968. For the outset three years of clad product, in lieu of proof sets, specimen sets were specially sold as "Special Mint Sets" minted at the San Francisco mint in 1965, 1966, and 1967 (Deep Cameo versions of these coins are highly valued because of their rarity).

Currently, there are few examples in the clad serial that are valued every bit highly as the silver series but at that place are certain extraordinary dates or variations. The deep cameo versions of proofs from 1965 to 1971 and 1981 Type ii are highly valued because of their scarcity, high form examples of quarters from certain years of the 1980s (such every bit 1981–1987) considering of scarcity in loftier grades due to loftier circulation and in 1982 and 1983 no mint sets were produced making information technology harder to find mint state examples, and any coin from 1981–1994 graded in MS67 is worth upwards of $1000.

The mint mark on the coin is currently located on the obverse at the lesser right hemisphere under the supposed engagement. In 1965–1967 cupro-nickel coins diameter no mint mark; quarters minted in 1968–1979 were stamped with a "D" for the Denver mint, an "S" for the San Francisco mint (proof coins only), or blank for Philadelphia. Starting in 1980, the Philadelphia mint was allowed to add its mint mark to all coins except the one-cent piece. 20-five-cent pieces minted from 1980 onwards are stamped with "P" for the Philadelphia mint, "D" for the Denver mint, or "South" for San Francisco mint.

Until 2012 the "South" mint marker was used merely on proof coins, only beginning with the El Yunque (Puerto Rico) design in the America the Beautiful quarters program, the US Mint began selling (at a premium) uncirculated 40-coin rolls and 100-money numberless of quarters with the San Francisco mint mark. These coins were non included in the 2012 or later uncirculated sets or the three-coin ATB quarter sets (which consisted of an uncirculated "P" and "D" and proof "S" specimen) and no "South" mint-marked quarters are being released into circulation, so that mintages will be determined solely by straight demand for the "Southward" mint-marked coins.

In 2019, the Due west Indicate Mint released two 1000000 of each of the five designs that twelvemonth with a "West" mint mark for full general circulation, in a move intended to spur coin collecting.^[25] This was continued in 2020,^[26] which turned out to be the final year of the "W" mint marked quarters as no quarters with the mint marker have been produced since.

See besides [edit]

50 State quarters (1999–2008)
America the Beautiful quarters (2010–2021)
America the Beautiful silvery bullion coins, 5 troy ounce silver bullion coins based on America the Beautiful quarters
DC & United states of america Territories quarters (2009)
Quarter (Canadian money)
United States Mint coin product
United States Bicentennial coinage (1975–1976)
United States quarter mintage figures
Washington quarter

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

Official specifications Archived November eleven, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
http://world wide web.usmint.gov/faqs/circulating_coins/index.cfm?activeness=faq_circulating_coin Archived May 30, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20040813033020/http://acoin.com/regularissue/regular25c.htm
US Quarters by yr and blazon. Histories, photos, and more than.