Delaware State Quarter
Information about the commemorative Delaware State Quarter.
You have come to the right place if you are looking for information about the Delaware Quarter
from the 50 State Quarter Program. The Delaware Quarter was issued by the United States Mint
to commemorate the state of Delaware. For your convenience, you can see a picture of the
Delaware Quarter on the right.
The Delaware Quarter is the 1st quarter in the State Quarter Program. It was issued on January 4, 1999.
It was the 1st State Quarter issued, because Delaware was the 1st state to be admitted to the Union.
According to the US Mint, total Delaware Quarter mintage for circulation was 774,824,000 coins.
If you sort the State Quarters in ascending order by mintage, Delaware would rank 39th.
(State Quarter mintage ranges from 446,600,000 to 1,594,616,000.)
Like all commemorative State Quarters, the obverse side of the Delaware Quarter shows
President Washington, but it is the reverse side of the coin we will focus on here.
The Delaware Quarter coin was engraved by William Cousins and has a great design.
At the top of the coin, you will see the name Delaware and just below it the year 1787,
which is the year Delaware became a state.
At the very bottom of the coin, it says "E Pluribus Unum" which means one out of
many - Delaware is one of the many 50 states. Above that, is the year the coin was issued,
which in this case is 1999.
The actual design that was submitted by the state of Delaware shows Caesar Rodney on horseback.
The inscriptions read "The First State" and "Caesar Rodney".
The 50 quarters from this program were issued between 1999 and 2008. Both the
Philidelphia and the Denver Mint made the Delaware circulated coins. The San Francisco Mint
was the only Mint that made the proof and silver proof Delaware coins.
The Delaware coin weights 5.67 grams, its diameter is 24.26 mm (0.955 inches),
and its thickness is 1.75 mm (0.069 inches). Furthermore, the Delaware coin is made of 91.67% copper
and 8.33% Nickel. The Delaware silver proof coins were made with 90% silver and 10% copper.
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