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History of the Washington Quarter
The Washington quarter was the United States' first circulating commemorative coin. It began in 1931 when the Treasury Department decided that it should honor the bicentennial of George Washington's birth on a half dollar. Terms of the contest for the new design specified that the portrait of George Washington on the obverse should be based on the statue of George Washington by Jean Antoine Houdon. In March 1931, Congress intervened and decided that the quarter dollar should feature Washington instead of the half dollar.
Designer engraver John Flanagan designed the obverse and the reverse for the new quarter dollar. The first quarters rolled off the coining presses in 1932. This coin was supposed to be a one-year circulating commemorative coin. Due to the depression throughout the United States, the United States Mint did not produce any quarters in 1933.
When demand for quarters resumed in 1934, the mint continued to use the Washington design for the quarter dollar that is still used today.
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