Celebrate Wyoming Statehood Day with the Wyoming State Quarter

July 10 marks Statehood Day in Wyoming. Courtesy of PCGS TrueView. Click image to enlarge.

July 10 marks Statehood Day in Wyoming, and there’s perhaps no better way for numismatists to celebrate this holiday honoring “The Equality State” than by collecting the 2007 Wyoming State Quarter. Honoring Wyoming, which became a state on July 10, 1890, the Wyoming 50 State Quarter was the 44th release of the 10-year long 50 States Quarter program, which honored each state in the order it was admitted to the Union.

The Wyoming Quarter carries an obverse portrait of George Washington designed by John Flanagan and modified by William Cousins, with a reverse showing a cowhand waving their hat in the air while riding a bucking bronco. The Wyoming Quarter reverse was designed by Donna Weaver and engraved by Norman E. Nemeth.

With a cumulative 564,400,000 produced as business strikes by the Philadelphia and Denver Mints, the Wyoming State Quarter circulated widely in the waning years of the 50 States Quarters program, which ran from 1999 through 2008. While the coin can still be found in circulation today, many collectors prefer collecting uncirculated and proof specimens, which are ideal for adding to PCGS Registry Sets – there are more than a dozen accommodating the Wyoming Quarter.

The proofs add another layer of challenge for those acquiring the Wyoming Quarter; there are both clad and 90% silver proofs, both from the San Francisco Mint. There are also satin strikes from Philadelphia and Denver that were included in the United States Mint Sets of the time. Thankfully, few specimens of the Wyoming Quarters are prohibitively expensive even in the top grades, and all make for wonderful additions to a PCGS Registry Set… Or in the collection of someone celebrating Wyoming Statehood Day!