Quarters and halves
State quarters value: how many were made of mine?
Pick the state on the back of your quarter: the tool gives the number struck at Denver and Philadelphia, the year of issue and the metal value.
State quarter: how many were struck?
Wisconsin quarters struck
453,200,000
| Denver (D) | 226,800,000 |
| Philadelphia (P) | 226,400,000 |
| Year of issue | 2004 |
| Metal value | 8.3¢ |
Circulating production per the US Mint; proof and silver proof quarters from San Francisco are not counted.
A state quarter found in change is worth twenty-five cents in almost every case, because none of the fifty designs is scarce. The Mint issued five states a year from 1999 to 2008 and struck 34,797,600,000 of them in total for circulation at Denver and Philadelphia, according to its production pages. The least common state, Oklahoma (2008), still counts 416,600,000 coins; the most common, Virginia (2000), counts 1,594,616,000. Every one is a copper-nickel clad coin of 5.67 grams, holding about 8.3¢ of metal at the prices read on October 27, 2026. What can make one worth more is a minting error or a coin from a collector set, such as the San Francisco proofs and silver proofs, which do not appear in these circulation figures. The tool above gives the figures for any state.
Face value against metal value
Metal value
3.3¢
| Face value | $0.10 |
| Metal against face | 0.33 times |
| Metal | Copper-nickel clad dime |
At silver $53.94 per troy oz, copper $6.61 per lb (last price read).
Mintages, metals and prices read by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method
Ten years, fifty designs
From 1999 to 2008 the Mint replaced the eagle on the back of the quarter with a design for each state, five a year, starting with Delaware and ending with Hawaii. The coins kept the clad metal of every quarter since 1965: copper-nickel outer layers on a copper core, 5.67 grams, as the Mint’s coin specifications list. The Mint’s production pages, read on archived copies, give the number struck at each mint for each state.
The ten least common state quarters
The figures below rank the states by total coins struck for circulation. The difference between the least and the most common is more than a factor of three, and the table shows how much smaller the issues of the later years of the program were than those of 1999 and 2000.
| State | Year | Denver | Philadelphia | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 2008 | 194,600,000 | 222,000,000 | 416,600,000 |
| Maine | 2003 | 231,400,000 | 217,400,000 | 448,800,000 |
| Missouri | 2003 | 228,200,000 | 225,000,000 | 453,200,000 |
| Wisconsin | 2004 | 226,800,000 | 226,400,000 | 453,200,000 |
| Alabama | 2003 | 232,400,000 | 225,000,000 | 457,400,000 |
| Arkansas | 2003 | 229,800,000 | 228,000,000 | 457,800,000 |
| Michigan | 2004 | 225,800,000 | 233,800,000 | 459,600,000 |
| Illinois | 2003 | 237,400,000 | 225,800,000 | 463,200,000 |
| Iowa | 2004 | 251,400,000 | 213,800,000 | 465,200,000 |
| Florida | 2004 | 241,600,000 | 240,200,000 | 481,800,000 |
At the other end, Virginia reached 1,594,616,000 coins. None of these numbers makes a state quarter scarce in the sense used for older coins on this site, where a low issue is under a few million. They tell you which designs you will see less often in change, nothing more.
What can make one worth more than face value
Errors are the usual reason. The best known concern the 2004 Wisconsin quarter from Denver, where some coins show an extra leaf on the ear of corn; the error coins guide describes what to look for and why only an authentication service can confirm it. Coins from San Francisco with an S, made only for proof sets, are the other: they never circulated, so one found in change was taken out of its set.
The metal will not help. A clad quarter holds about 8.3¢ of copper and nickel at today’s prices, a fraction of its face value. The tool below compares face and metal value for any denomination and year, which makes the contrast with the silver quarters of 1964 and earlier easy to see.
Face value against metal value
Metal value
3.3¢
| Face value | $0.10 |
| Metal against face | 0.33 times |
| Metal | Copper-nickel clad dime |
At silver $53.94 per troy oz, copper $6.61 per lb (last price read).
Reading your quarter
The state name and the year of issue are on the back, above and below the design. The mint mark is on the front, as the Mint’s page on mint marks explains, to the right of the ribbon in Washington’s hair. With the state selected in the tool at the top of the page, you get the Denver and Philadelphia figures and the year. For quarters of any year, the coin value checker covers the whole denomination.
A last word on condition. A coin pulled from change after years in circulation shows wear on Washington’s cheek and on the high points of the state design, and the figures above count every coin struck, worn or not. Keep yours for the pleasure of the set, and look for errors rather than dates.