State Quarters
New Mexico has an enchantingly geometric state quarter: a Zia sun symbol over the state of New Mexico.
I’ve developed opinions on quarters this year because I need an endless supply to feed the laundry beast. New Mexico rocks. Connecticut is pretty and the oak tree also feels nice under the thumb. Mississippi has beautiful blousy magnolias.
My own state quarter is emblazoned with…a race car. I recognize that normal people only think of Indiana in terms of the Indy 500, and that my chauvinistic Hoosier pride is a result of the fact that I grew up in a nice city with cool people and not because Indiana has as much awesome as it does corn, but still. A race car.
It would be one thing if it was just cool states like New Mexico and Connecticut getting quarters with Zia sun symbols and oak trees, but no. Oklahoma-a state so full of nothing that the rapaciously land-hungry United States government left it as Indian Territory until the twentieth century-has a quarter with a beautiful long-tailed scissor-tailed flycatcher (saith wikipedia) swooping across the reverse, a coin so marvelous that I actually paused to check that it was actually US currency.
Oklahoma’s quarter beats my quarter. Oklahoma! I am filled with woe.
I’ve developed opinions on quarters this year because I need an endless supply to feed the laundry beast. New Mexico rocks. Connecticut is pretty and the oak tree also feels nice under the thumb. Mississippi has beautiful blousy magnolias.
My own state quarter is emblazoned with…a race car. I recognize that normal people only think of Indiana in terms of the Indy 500, and that my chauvinistic Hoosier pride is a result of the fact that I grew up in a nice city with cool people and not because Indiana has as much awesome as it does corn, but still. A race car.
It would be one thing if it was just cool states like New Mexico and Connecticut getting quarters with Zia sun symbols and oak trees, but no. Oklahoma-a state so full of nothing that the rapaciously land-hungry United States government left it as Indian Territory until the twentieth century-has a quarter with a beautiful long-tailed scissor-tailed flycatcher (saith wikipedia) swooping across the reverse, a coin so marvelous that I actually paused to check that it was actually US currency.
Oklahoma’s quarter beats my quarter. Oklahoma! I am filled with woe.