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��Why Your Wisconsin Quarter Could Be Worth a Lot More Than You Believe The United States Mint started generating the 50 State Quarters� in 1999. Each year, five specific styles were employed to honor every state in the order that they joined the Union. The obverse shares a typical style depicting President George Washington and is extremely related to the portrait used on the Washington quarters minted from 1932 till 1998. Mint sculptor-engraver William Cousins executed the design primarily based on the original by John Flanagan. All of these coins are legal tender and of common weight and composition. They are circulating commemorative coins with the intention to be utilized in everyday commerce. Each state was responsible for creating a design for their personal quarter and authorized by the governor of that state. The Secretary of the Treasury authorized the final designs. The United States Mint facility in Denver and Philadelphia created coins for circulation, even though the facility in San Francisco produces Proof coins made for collectors. The United States Mint estimates that more than 140 million individuals collected the 50 State Quarters�. In total, the mint manufactured more than 35 billion state quarters. With that big of a mintage, the odds of error coins escaping the mint is rather common. There are examples of die-filled strikes such as the  In God We Rust error and several off-center strikes that can be purchased for a handful of dollars from your favored coin dealer. However, the mint created only one particular die assortment out of the fifty different sort of coins that were made. Intermediate and sophisticated coin collectors who are looking to assemble a complete set of State Quarters actively seek these die varieties. The Wisconsin State Quarter In 2004, Wisconsin was honored as the twenty-ninth state to join the union of the United States in 1848. The reverse of the coin charac