2006 State Quarter Designs

United States Mint ^ | January 2006 | US Mint

[Jet Jaguar]

The Utah coin is good looking.

[Atlas Sneezed]

When you encourage schoolgirls to stuff the ballot box, you end up with "My Silky Pony":

[RockinRight]

The Nevada Quarter:

[ssaftler]

There have been some real clunkers out there, hasn't there? I believe each state had its own method for picking the final design. Here in Cali-phony-a, there was some kind of ballot that, of course, wasn't terribly well publicized.

I personally would have liked to have seen an outline of the state with a giant crack going through it to symbolize the San Andreas Fault and our ever-occuring earthquakes, but what do I know?

[VegasCowboy]

LOL! I've seen that before titled "datenight in Wyoming."

[fieldmarshaldj]

I personally liked the design featuring the newly-dug graves out in the desert for the mafia stool-pigeons.

[Semi Civil Servant]

That's not a real Colorado mountain, but a "generic" one. Why they didn't put the fourth or fifth most famous mountain in the world (Pikes Peak) on the coin is beyond me.

[hanamizu]

I don't know. I thought that Missouri's looked like a toilet seat.

[kenth]

It might have hurt the other mountains' feelings.

[onja]

Michigan and Wisconsin are fairly pitiful.

[OldArmy52]

(1) The San Francisco entry for the Calif coin is based on "Brokeback Mt" movie.
(2) Forget about the "superior to Chucky Cheese" token designs, go back to genuine silver/copper/gold coinage and few will quibble about the designs.

I used to collect coins when a kid, but lost enthusiam when even the copper pennies were debased by switching to copper-plated pot metal (zinc?).

[Textide]

Very Good! Hope I remember to try that on someone.

[Appalled but Not Surprised]

go back to genuine silver/copper/gold coinage and few will quibble about the designs. >>

That would require, oh, what? Dropping a zero from the U.S. dollar? Won't happen.

[Mygirlsmom]

We in Wisconsin got the head of a cow and some cheese. All the little grade-schoolers voted for it in an online poll. And our gov, having the intelect of a grade schooler, felt right at home going along with them.

[RayBob]

And here it is...

[Sybeck1]

Mississippi just has a magnolia flower, about the most boring one.

[RayBob]

It may not be exciting, but artistically, it is, IMHO, one of the most attractive and aesthetically pleasing coins.

[yawningotter]

I just saw the West Virginia quarter. Is that the Robert Byrd Bridge?
By the way. Why did New York put a New Jersey landmark on their quarter?