Help decide what’s on the new state quarter

You may have seen the Wyoming bronco buster, or the Wright Brothers biplane lifting off a North Carolina beach, or Gen. George Washington crossing New Jersey’s Delaware River.

For nearly a decade, you’ve caught glimpses of them in your hand, bright, beautiful American quarters depicting sites and symbols for each one of the United States. Sometimes, they offer images so striking — like the Massachusetts coin with its heroic Minuteman standing over the outline of the state — that it seems a shame to waste on a parking meter.

If you slipped yours into a display of some kind, you weren’t the only one. Thanks to excited coin collectors, the 50 State Quarters Program has been an enormous success for the U.S. Mint. What’s more, it’s probably helped educate many Americans about the wonders of our country.

All of which explains why they’ve decided to do it again. And this time, the new state images will be selected, in part, by a vote of the public.

Gov. Deval Patrick is inviting residents to cast their ballots at www.mass.gov/governor/quarter.
“It will be fun,” he predicted in a statement. The candidates are all either National Historic Sites or parks.

Dozens of possibilities are . . .

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