So about those Wisconsin quarter dollar coins...

The "errors" includes an extra mark below the corn leaf to the left of the cob.

Really, the western states are kicking everyone else's ass:

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1658/2007wyproofrevak8.jpg

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/253/2007idahosmvk0.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Nevada_quarter,_reverse_side,_2006.jpg/600px-Nevada_quarter,_reverse_side,_2006.jpg

I mean, kudos to Idaho for not mentioning that starchy crop they're so "famous" for.

nevada v nice

Every fourteen-year old girl in the U.S. should be collecting those.

i went to the Spiral Jetty in Utah in August. We camped out and then the next morning, dazed and hungover, we ended up at the Golden Spike National Historical Monument. They had a banner of the Utah quarter up, which I hadn't seen before. The park rangers were pretty excited, and i as well for a quarter with a train (two trains!) on it

http://www.usmint.gov/images/mint_programs/50sq_program/states/UT_winner.gif

LOOOOK OOOOUUUUUTTTTTTT !!!!!!!

If one train left Salt Lake at 8:10 and was chugging at 45 mph...

Pretty phallic and breasty for a Utah quarter.

c on tracks

Crossroads of the chest

E Pluribus UHUH

I mean, kudos to Idaho for not mentioning that starchy crop they're so "famous" for.

Fuck that, for real everyone in Idaho wanted potatoes on there! I am not kidding! The only other thing we're famous for is neonazis. ;_;

Wyoming's cowboy on bucking bronco may be my favorite of anything ever logo. So sharp and distinctive! It's on their license plates too.

Wyoming is the "equality state" bc they allowed women to vote in 1870...but only so they could have enough citizens to count as a state.

Interesting! I did not know that.

they should have wrote "MONTANA" all Metallica-logo-style with the left leg of the M and the right leg of the second A both longer and flaring outward

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chaki here is a job for u

I'm sorry, Abbot, but it's gotta be nice for some folks to not have be exposed to FAMOUS POTATOES FAMOUS POTATOES FAMOUS POTATOES FAMOUS POTATOES FAMOUS POTATOES for once.

Hey, but Idaho has this going for it: Arkansas had the "alternate" quarter of Bill Clinton behind a tree; Idaho might get one with a bathroom stall on it.

hahahahaha

No seriously I asked everyone I could abt the quarter since the state quarter since they started coming out (2000? 2001?) and the answer ~80% of the time was "potato, duh." And the general reaction to the actual quarter was "falcon what? what? why?"

It's a shame...the actual bathroom stall was in MN, tho I like the idea.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20060731/ai_n16649763

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- The president of the Idaho Potato Commission says he's bracing for phone calls after the state selected the peregrine falcon rather than a potato on the state's new quarter.

"The absence of the potato on the quarter will be more noted than its presence," Frank Muir told the Post-Register. "In other words, more people will wonder why it's not on the quarter."

Muir said he had to field similar calls in the 1990s when a picture of a skier with the slogan "Winter Wonderland" was offered on license plates to the public as an option to "Famous Potatoes."

Last week, Gov. Jim Risch unveiled the peregrine, Idaho's official raptor since 2004, as the choice for the quarter.

And predictably: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1606291

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/8845/quarter5ds.jpg

HAHAHAHA

THIS is what was the impossible worry or just plain irony cooked up by embarrassed Idaho liberals (or people with hearts/minds):

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/9523/idaho5fl.jpg

Srsly tho Pleasant Plains how many Idahoans have you met? Maybe I should round up my own "Hastings crew" of southern Idaho equiv and get them to post concurrence here. Everyone wanted potatoes!

You're the only Idahoan I know, and for all I know, you're a fictional character I made up in my head.

But would not a fictional character from Idaho know more abt Idaho than you do?

they're really that big on potatoes up there?

Dude you have no idea how much people love potatoes and potato imagery up there. I swear every shirt, not just the tourist ones, has this shirt for sale:

http://www.mrpotatohead.net/wearables/darth.jpg

Popular poster by Ward Hooper, Boise artist:

http://www.gallery601.com/_img_library/artists/61-70/68/Idahopinup%20lg.jpg

And I got a reply already from my myface bulletin on 'did you want potato quarter y/n':

I wanted a potato with a big slab of butter. Who wants a fucking falcon on a quarter? Fucking Montana has a gigantic skull on theirs. Assholes.

I just know that coming from a small state where it's always "You know Bill?" or "How bout them Hogs?", I would've assumed that folks would get tired of having the same "fun fact" thrown at them all the time.

Does Irish currency have potatoes on them?

More opinions from Idahoans:

I sure didn't want a potato on the quarter. So I think your 'someone' is right. The falcon is alright, but there are better choices. Like the Idahoan who reported the first UFO sighting. Or the guy who might or might not have invented the TV before the RCA guy, who lived in Idaho once, but wasn't born here and didn't invent the TV here, but might have thought about inventing it while he was here.

A good point: Philo T. Farnsworth would have been k-rad.

Another:

I know I sent a letter to the Idaho State Potato Commission with a request to create a mascot for potatoes, similar to Betty Crocker or the Sunmaid Raisin girl. Never heard back. too bad...

....and falcons on the quarter, I could think of better things, like Ford pickups and a noose.

Another:

For real. the peregrine falcon is a much more appropriate symbol. it references our states wilderness and devotion to protecting endangered birds of prey. The potato on the other hand celebrates Simplot's seizure of land from independent farmers, his use of imminent domain to take land and expand upon his environmentally disastrous projects, and other immoral practices to exploit Idaho. Fuck Simplot. having a potato on our quarter would be like having J.R. Simplots dick in our collective butt.

A good point, although he's one of the most famous men from Idaho (total eclipse by the Craig).

So PP is right to a greater extent than I thought, tho srsly all the oldsters were like "where my spud?"

Actually the last point has completely converted me to the falcon.

I wonder if Utah's quarter will have a talking salamander on it.