Circulation strikes: 495,976,000
Designer:
Obverse: John Flanagan
Reverse: William Cousins
Diameter: ±24.3 millimeters
Thickness: ±1.75 millimeters
Metal content:
Outer layers - 75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Center - 100% Copper
Weight: ±5.7 grams
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark: "D" (for Denver) on the obverse just right of the ribbon
Value: $0.35 (AU-50) up to $2.00 (MS-65)
Sadly future generations will probably be a bit confused by the design of this one. It may have seemed like a great idea to dedicate the obverse to an image of "The Old Man of the Mountain" It may have stood for ten thousand years but, as inevitably happens with geological features, it crumbled away. Just three years after the New Hampshire State Quarter was released, and despite attempts at preservation, the forty foot visage collapsed leaving New Hampshire with a state emblem that, in time, few will be able to relate to.
Monday, February 25, 2008
2000-D NEW HAMPSHIRE QUARTER
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1 comments:
if you looks the side of the mountain looks like an old man.... then again maybe that's what the inscription means by old man of the mountains
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