Tuesday, January 27, 2009
More Freaking Quarters
Wait wait wait - I thought we were done with this foolish 50 State Quarters® Program! Alaska, Hawaii, khalas!

So why in the holy hell did we get a District of Columbia quarter yesterday?

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(Apparently Duke Ellington was born there).

Turns out we're not done with this 50 State Quarters® Program crap, not by a long shot.

Yes, you guessed it, this year we're getting 25 cent pieces for Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, United States Virgin Islands and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

No, I'm not even kidding. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Did you even know that we owned the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands?

That's how jacked up this Treasury is.

Collect them all, kids, 'cause it only costs something like 8 cents to make a quarter. Ca-ching!

Yes, that seigniorage is the only thing keeping your government out of the poorhouse!

I can't even wait to see who's going to make it onto the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands quarter! The anticipation is killing me!!!!!

Barf!
 
posted by Josh at 7:16 AM |


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At 2:55 PM, Blogger Tuan

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/DCAndTerritories/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=DCterritories&local=MI

 

At 8:00 PM, Blogger Josh

Ahhh yes, a column of ancient indigenous Chamorro structures. Of course.

Although, joking aside, I have heard of Ylang Ylang oil ...

 

At 9:12 PM, Blogger Shep

Washington- The Capital of the Free World. Tons of historical buildings and monuments. And they put Duke Ellington on their quarter. Ia mean, no offense to Duke, but really? That's all ya got?

 

At 1:12 PM, Blogger Tuan

They went with Duke to avoid that same old same old feel of just another dead white guy on a coin.

 

At 5:47 PM, Blogger Josh

Only dead white men, you say? Well what about the Sacagawea dollar, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the Indian Head nickel and the Indian Head cent?

Wow, I never realized until right now that 75% of non-dead white men coins have Native Americans on them. That's kind of spooky.

 

At 1:10 AM, Blogger Tuan

Of the four examples given, how many of them would you consider commonplace, or even "in circulation"?

 

At 7:08 AM, Blogger Josh

Hey, the Sacagawea dollar's in circulation! Last year they made 24,640,000 of them!

And look at this, from wikipedia: Although not widespread in the United States, the Sacagawea dollar is very popular in Ecuador and other foreign countries that have made the US dollar their currency. Since dollarization, an estimated 500 million coins, approximately half of those minted, have been used in Ecuador, El Salvador, and other Latin American countries.

 


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