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Maryland State Quarter
Year of issue: 2000
The Maryland State Quarter is the seventh coin in the 50 State Quarters Program. The U.S. Mint released it March 13, 2000 as the second quarter of that year. The quarter highlights the Maryland State House in Annapolis. Maryland’s state house is the oldest one still in continuous use by a legislature. Construction started in 1772 but wasn’t finished until 1797. From November 1783 to August 1784, the Continental Congress met in the unfinished state house, using it to sign the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
The obverse (heads) design shows the familiar portrait of George Washington used on the quarter since 1932. But the inscriptions previously used on the reverse – "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "QUARTER DOLLAR", "LIBERTY", and "IN GOD WE TRUST" – all appear on the obverse in order to accommodate the state designs.
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