What's In Your Pocket?

[Beau Geste (imported)]

I got all but one of these questions from another message board. Best if nobody posts the answers for a couple of days, or until there are a few posts below this one, so the answers aren't right there when somebody reads the questions. Anybody who has seen other questions of this type about the statehood quarters, can add them.

These questions apply to all the statehood quarters that have been minted and released so far. "Quarter," of course, means "statehood quarter."

I have actually been disappointed by the designs for the coins, most of which seem rather ordinary. I think the best designs are on the Delaware, Maine, Virginia, Florida, California, and Nevada quarters. Some numismatists think there will be more overseas demand for the Montana quarter than for others, since the skull might be considered to have some occult siginficance.

1. Which statehood quarter depicts a landmark that no longer exists, in the form shown on the coin?

2. How many horses are there, all together, on the different quarters issued so far?

3. On which of the statehood quarters are boats depicted which are powered by means other than sails?

4. Which of the quarters depict flora or fauna that are not native to North America?

5. Which of the quarters show a figure or figures with visual impairments or deficiencies?

6. Which statehood quarters depict the same historical figure on both sides of the coin?

7. Does any statehood quarter depict a weapon? If so, which one?

8. Which of the quarters depict historical figures who were not born in the state for which the quarter was designed?

9. Which quarter depicts an event that did not occur in the state for which the coin was designed?

10. Which quarter depicts a symbol associated with a historical figure whose image does not appear on the coin, and whose name is not on it?

11. For which of the quarters have individual coins been found, which had minting errors on them?

12. Does the flag of any other nation besides the U.S. appear on any of the quarters? (You don't have to actually see the design on the flag.)

13. How many of the quarters show identifiable fresh water lakes or rivers?

[skivvynine (imported)]

Some additional trivia about US coins.

1. From what coin did we get the word "Dollar?"

2. On what coin did the motto "In Got We Trust" first appear?

3. What was the original spelling of "Dime?"

4. What was the smallest, by size, coin ever minted by the US?

5. What was the largest, by size, coin ever minted by the US?

6. What were the 15 denominations of coins minted by the US?

7. In what year did it become illegal to use foriegn currency for public transactions in the US?

8. What was the name of the first 5¢ coin?

[HairyHarry (imported)]

I'm told the the word dollar comes from an old European coin, the Thalar.(Spelling?)

[Riverwind (imported)]

So what is the answers, I would like to know.

River

[A-1 (imported)]

...m'balls...

[Paolo]

Damn, I'd be glad to have some quarters to LOOK at right now.

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

I'm told the the word dollar comes from an old European coin, the Thalar.(Spelling?)

From Daaler to Thaler to Dollar is I believe the route. Spelling varied as was once customary. --FLO--

[Beau Geste (imported)]

For anybody who might want to see if he can figure out the answers to the original questions, there is a complete set of illustrations of the statehood quarters on wikipedia, including three that haven't even been released into circulation yet.

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_State_Quarters

Click on the image of a quarter in the list, and you get an enlargement.

Another question that everyone should be able to answer correctly. Which general-circulation coin currently minted by the U.S. Treasury, contains the smallest percentage of copper? (This, of course, doesn't include the bullion coins which the mint produces and sells.)

[Beau Geste (imported)]

Here are the answers to the questions about the quarters. I don't have the answers to skivvynine's questions. I was surprised that nobody posted the answers. On the website I got this from, somebody had gotten the right answers in a couple of hours.

1. Which state quarter depicts a landmark which

no longer exists, in the form shown on the coin?

A. The New Hampshire coin, issued in the year 2000, shows the Old Man of the Mountains, a rock formation which collapsed on May 3, 2003.

2. How many horses are there, all together, on the different quarters issued so far?

A. Five--one on the Delaware quarter, one on the Kentucky quarter, three on the Nevada quarter.

3. On which of the statehood quarters are boats depicted which are powered by means other than sails?

A. New Jersey's quarter shows a rowboat, Missouri's shows a keelboat, Minnesota's has a boat with an outboard motor.

4. Which of the quarters depict flora or fauna

which are not native to North America?

A. Delaware's, Kentucky's, and Nevada's depict horses, Georgia's shows a peach, Arkansas' shows a rice stalk, Wisconsin's has a cow, Nebraska's depicts oxen, South Dakota's shows wheat ears and a ring-necked pheasant.

5. Which of the quarters shows

a figure or figures with visual impairment

or visual deficiencies?

A. Helen Keller, shown on the Alabama quarter, was blind. Theodore Roosevelt, depicted on the South Dakota quarter, wore glasses because of myopia.

6. Which statehood quarters depi

t the same historical figure on both sides of the coin?

A New Jersey's and South Dakota's both depict George Washington on both sides of the quarter.

7. Does any statehood quarter depict a weapon? If so, which one?

A. The Massachusetts quarter shows the Minuteman holding a breech-loading rifle.

8. Which of the quarters depict historical figures which were not born in the state for which the quarter was

issued?

A. New Jersey's quarter shows George Washington and James Monroe; North Carolina's shows one of the Wright Brothers (maybe both) who were born in Ohio; Illinois' shows Abraham Lincoln, who was born in Kentucky; Missouri's shows Lewis and Clark

(both born in Virginia), California's shows John Muir (born in Scotland), South Dakota's shows Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

9. Which quarter depicts an event which did not occur in the state for which the quarter was minted?

A. The Ohio quarter depicts the Wright brother's first aircraft in flight. It flew only in North Carolina, not in Ohio.

10. Which state

quarter depicts a symbol associated with a historical figure whose image does not appear on the coin, and whose name is not on it?

A. The Montana quarter depicts a buffalo skull, which the artist Charlie Russell painted alongside his signature on all his oil paintings in the last twenty years of his life.

11. For which of the quarters have individual coins been found, which had minting errors?

A. Some Delaware quarters were struck on blanks without milled edges. Some Wisconsin quarters have portions of the corn ears missing.

12. Does the flag of any

nation besides the U.S. appear on any of the

coins?

A. The ship on the Florida quarter is a Spanish galleon, and its masts have flags, one of which would have been the Spanish flag. The Virginia quarter shows the ships which brought over colonists in 1607, and the flags on them would have been the British naval ensign of the time.

13. How many of the coin

s show identifiable fresh water lakes or rivers?

A. Seven. New Jersey's shows the Delaware River, Illinois' shows Lake Michigan, Missouri's and Montana's show the Missouri River, Michigan's shows the five Great Lakes, Oregon's shows Crater Lake, West Virginia's shows the New River Gorge.

The general circulation coin, issued by the U.S. mint, which has the lowest percentage of copper, is the penny. It is actually made of zinc, with a thin copper plating. The others, except for the nickel, are clad coins which are mostly copper, and the nickel is an alloy which is over half copper.

[Hardball (imported)]

I don't remember the quarter, but we in the Commonwealth of Virginia have the greatest flag and motto. The flag has a woman's naked breast and the motto, Sic Semper Tyrannis, meaning "thus always to tyrants." Yelled by John Wilks Booth after shooting Lincoln. Jumping down to the stage, he broke his leg. After that 'Break a Leg' was used to encourage actors before a performance. I believe the latest version of the flag has toned down the breast, damned old biddies.