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About This Quiz
We bet you thought that quarters were for purchasing products or testing your luck out at the vending machines. But, state quarters had another idea in mind when the State Quarters Program was enacted in 1997. While the focus of the mint is on producing coinage, they also try to keep the popularity of coin collecting growing and the newest revitalization of the hobby, state quarters, was designed to bring in the new generation of coin collectors. And boy did it work! Nearly half of the U.S. population collects the coins for fun or a serious collection, which has created an additional $3-billion for the U.S. government by collectors taking the coins out of circulation.
Each state quarter is unique to the others. While some focus on heroes in the state's history, others display landmarks, animals, and plants that bring the history and culture of the state to life. Other coins feature characteristics never before found on U.S. coinage such as Alabama's quarter which is the first U.S. coin to feature Braille writing and the Charter Oak on the Connecticut coin that fell in an 1856 storm, yet can also be found on the 1936 half-dollar.
State quarters are some of the most interesting coins a numismatist can collect, both new and experienced. Let's see how well you know your state quarters by identifying them from an image!
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South Dakota
Vermont
Louisiana
Texas
Texas became a state on December 29, 1845. Its coin is framed by a lariat to commemorate Texas' cattle and cowboy history and its frontier spirit.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Vermont
Vermont became a state on March 4, 1791. Its coin shows Camel's Hump Mountain behind a person collecting sap buckets from maple trees.
Florida
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Nevada
Illinois
Wisconsin
Louisiana
Louisiana became a state on April 30, 1812. Its coin commemorates the Louisiana Purchase by showing an outline of the Purchase territory along with a trumpet, musical notes, and the state bird, the pelican.
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Iowa
New Mexico
Alaska
Kentucky
Kentucky became a state on June 1, 1792. Its coin shows Federal Hill and a thoroughbred racehorse.
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New York
New York became a state on July 26, 1788. Its coin features the Statue of Liberty and eleven stars, because it was the eleventh state in the Union.
California
Arkansas
Missouri
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Which state does the back of this quarter honor?
Missouri
Florida
Florida became a state on March 3, 1845. Its coin, dubbed "Gateway to Discovery," features a 16th-century Spanish galleon, a space shuttle, and a strip of land with Sabal palm trees.
South Carolina
Michigan
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Florida
Washington
Arizona
Tennessee
Tennessee became a state on June 1, 1796. Its coin commemorates the state's connection to music with an image of a fiddle, a trumpet, and a guitar.
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Missouri
Indiana
Indiana became a state on December 11, 1816. Its coin commemorates the Indianapolis 500 with a racecar and its admittance into the union with nineteen stars.
Virginia
South Dakota
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Kentucky
South Dakota
South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. Its coin features a Chinese ring-necked pheasant (the state bird) flying over Mount Rushmore.
Idaho
Oklahoma
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Arkansas
Kansas
Texas
Colorado
Colorado's state flower is the Rocky Mountain columbine. It's nickname is the "Centennial State."
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire became a state on June 21, 1788. Its coin commemorates the rock formation, The Old Man of the Mountain.
Iowa
Georgia
Illinois
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Alaska
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Minnesota became a state on May 11, 1858. Its coin commemorates its nickname, "Land of 1,000 Lakes," with a picture of two people fishing in a tree-lined lake, while a loon watches them from the water.
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Virginia
North Dakota
Wisconsin
North Carolina
North Carolina became a state on November 21, 1789. Its coin commemorates the first flight that took place in Kill Devil Hills.
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Georgia
South Carolina
South Carolina became a state on May 23, 1788. Its coin features three state symbols: the Palmetto tree, the Carolina Wren, and the Yellow Jessamine.
Michigan
Kansas
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Which state does the back of this quarter honor?
Tennessee
Arkansas
Michigan
Michigan became a state on January 26, 1837. Its coin commemorates its status as the Great Lakes state; its border touches four of the five Great Lakes.
Wisconsin
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Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Kentucky
Nebraska
Nebraska became a state on March 1, 1867. Its coin features pioneers in an ox-drawn covered wagon with Chimney Rock in the background.
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Montana
New Hampshire
Arkansas
Arkansas became a state on June 15, 1836. It has seventy-five counties and one national park.
Delaware
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Utah
Kentucky
Nevada
Nevada became a state on October 31, 1864. Its coin shows three wild stallions, snow-capped mountains, and the sun.
Connecticut
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Alabama
Montana
Montana became a state in 1889. Its coin is dubbed "Big Sky Country" and features a bison skull above the state's landscape.
Wisconsin
Alaska
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Missouri
Louisiana
Connecticut
Connecticut became a state on January 8, 1788. Its coin commemorates The Charter Oak tree, where the state's original Constitution was hidden.
Massachusetts
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Maine
Alaska
Maryland
New Jersey
New Jersey became a state on December 18, 1787. Its coin commemorates General George Washington crossing the Delaware.
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Utah
Utah became a state on January 4, 1896. Its coin commemorates the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads with the Golden Spike.
Missouri
Arizona
Maryland
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Montana
Rhode Island
Michigan
Virginia
Virginia became a state on June 25, 1788. Its coin commemorates the three ships that carried the first English settlers to Jamestown: the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery.
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New Hampshire
North Carolina
New Mexico
West Virginia
West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863. Its coin features the New River and the New River Gorge Bridge.
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Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Maine
Maine became a state on March 15, 1820. Its coin commemorates the Permaquid Point Light.
Michigan
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Delaware
Delaware became a state on December 7, 1787. Its coin commemorates Caesar Rodney's horseback ride of 1776.
Maryland
Hawaii
Missouri
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma became a state in 1907. Its coin shows the state bird, the Scissortail Flycatcher, flying over the state's wildflower, the Indian Blanket.
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Nevada
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Maryland
Maryland became a state on April 28, 1788. Its coin features the Maryland Statehouse and is framed with White Oak leaf clusters.
Connecticut
Florida
Hawaii
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North Dakota
Illinois
Utah
Alabama
Alabama became a state on December 14, 1819. It has 67 counties, but no national parks.
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Oregon
Colorado
Mississippi
Mississippi became a state on December 10, 1817. Its coin commemorates its state flower by combining the blossoms and leaves of two magnolias.
Illinois
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Maine
Michigan
Alaska
Missouri
Missouri became a state on August 10, 1821. Its coin commemorates Lewis and Clark's return to St. Louis down the Mississippi River and features the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Gateway Arch in the background.
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California
California became a state on September 9, 1850. It has fifty-eight counties and eight national parks.
Vermont
New Jersey
Kentucky
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Ohio
Ohio became a state on March 1, 1803. It was the seventeenth state in the Union.
Delaware
New York
Florida
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Arizona
Texas
Wyoming
Wyoming became a state on July 10, 1890. Its coin, dubbed "The Equality State," features a bucking horse and rider.
Nebraska
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Delaware
Louisiana
West Virginia
Arizona
Arizona's first governor was George Wylie Hunt. He was re-reelected six times.
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West Virginia
Georgia
Oregon
Oregon became a state on February 14, 1859. Its coin commemorates Crater Lake with a view from the south-southwest rim, including Wizard Island and Watchman and Hillman Peaks.
Virginia
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Iowa
Iowa became a state on December 28 1846. Its coin features a teacher and students planting a tree outside a one-room schoolhouse.
Missouri
Texas
Louisiana
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Maine
Pennsylvania
Alaska
Alaska's name is derived from the Aleut word for "great land." It's nickname is "The Last Frontier."
New Jersey
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New Jersey
Washington
Washington became a state on November 11, 1889. Its coin features a salmon breaching the water in front of Mount Rainier.
Alaska
West Virginia
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Ohio
Illinois
Illinois became a state on December 3, 1818. Its coin commemorates its place as the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and its admittance into the Union as the twenty-first state.
Missouri
Delaware
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Which state does the back of this quarter honor?
Maine
New Hampshire
Utah
Kansas
Kansas became a state on January 29, 1861. Its coin showcases a buffalo and sunflowers.
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Indiana
Kansas
North Dakota
North Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. Its coin commemorates the state's Badlands region with a pair of American bison grazing in the foreground of an image of rugged buttes and canyons (the Badlands) at sunset.
Iowa
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Which state does the back of this quarter honor?
Georgia
Georgia became a state on January 2, 1788. Its coin consists of a peach, live oak sprigs, an outline of the state, and the state motto.
West Virginia
Maine
Arizona
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Which state does the back of this quarter honor?
Rhode Island
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania became a state on December 12, 1787. Its coin commemorates the statue, Commonwealth.
Alaska
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts became a state on February 6, 1788. Its coin commemorates the Minuteman of the American Revolution.
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
Utah
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Which state does the back of this quarter honor?
Delaware
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Wisconsin
Wisconsin became a state on May 29, 1848. Its coin commemorates the states role in agriculture with the head of a cow, a round of cheese and an ear of corn.
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Which state does the back of this quarter honor?
Connecticut
New Mexico
New Mexico became a state in 1912. Its coin features a Zia sun symbol over a topographical outline of the state.
Florida
West Virginia
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Which state does the back of this quarter honor?
Tennessee
Rhode Island
Rhode Island became a state on May 29, 1790. Its coin features a vintage sailboat in Narragansett Bay with the Pell Bridge behind it.
Connecticut
Indiana
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Which state does the back of this quarter honor?
Nebraska
South Dakota
Tennessee
Idaho
Idaho became a state on July 3rd 1890. Its coin features the Peregrine Falcon over a small image of the state.
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Which state does the back of this quarter honor?
Wisconsin
Hawaii
Hawaii became a state in 1959. Its coin shows King Kamehameha I stretching his hand toward the eight major Hawaiian Islands.
Idaho
Delaware
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