US Quarter 1999 Delaware State coin value
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Currency - Dollar=100 cents
Face value: Quarter dollar ($1/4=25 cents)
Type - commemorative coin 50 States Quarters Series
Composition - copper-nickel clad copper
Diameter - 24.3 mm
Weight - 5.67 grams
Edge: Reeded
Mint Mark: D (Denver), P (Philadelphia)
Years of mintage:
1999
Reverse:
Caesar Rodney on horseback
Legend:
DELAWARE 1787 / CAESAR RODNEY / THE FIRST STATE / 1999 E PLURIBUS UNUM
Obverse:
Washington facing left
Legend:
QUARTER DOLLAR / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / LIBERTY / IN GOD WE TRUST
Krause catalog number - KM#293
Value in condition:
UNC (Uncirculated - without traces of circulation) - ~1 USD.00
XF (Extremely Fine) - 0.25-0.50
Worse than "XF" - 0.25
USD
DELAWARE NO. 1
Capital: DOVERAdhered: DECEMBER 7, 1787
Population: 807,385 hab.
Origin of the name: Named in honor of Thomas West, Lord De La Watt, first governor of the colony of Virginia.
The reverse depicts Caesar Rodney galloping to Philadelphia on July 1, 1776 to cast his vote for Independence. The Legends of "THE FIRST STATE" as the first State to enter the Union and "CAESAR RODNEY" character of the engraving.
Caesar Rodney (1728-1784) was a delegate to the American Continental Congress.
Rodney is remembered in the State of Delaware and even more so in his hometown, Dover, for this fact and for having been a soldier, judge and spokesman in the State Assembly.
VARIANTS
Excess metal in the letter E....CAIESAR.
KM#(D):293KM#(S):293a
Caesar Rodney