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Speaker 1: how often do the State quarters come out? And how
Speaker 1: many does the MINT produce? In the U s. Mint
Speaker 1: started producing a series of fifty state quarters, one for
Speaker 1: each state in the United States. They've been coming out
Speaker 1: at a rate of five per year over the last
Speaker 1: ten years. In other words, a new state quarter is
Speaker 1: issued every ten weeks or so. They've been released in
Speaker 1: the same order that the states joined the Union. At
Speaker 1: the end of two thousand and eight, the last state Quarter,
Speaker 1: Hawaii comes out. The MINT produces production figures. These figures
Speaker 1: indicate that the MINT produces something like three hundred to
Speaker 1: three hundred fifty million quarters every month. Therefore, in a
Speaker 1: ten week run, each state gets something like eight hundred
Speaker 1: million or so quarters minted. These quarters are dumped into
Speaker 1: general circulation by sending them out through the commercial bank network.
Speaker 1: Given that there are approximately three million people in the
Speaker 1: United States, there are at least two quarters for each
Speaker 1: state that every one of us can collect. Do you
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