USA Statehood Quarter Series - Quarter Faces and Facts for 2008

Our States span from Sea to Shinning Sea Each quarter face tells history about that state. On our state pages learn about your state. See new and exciting bits of history questions. Each state page is updated with state data when the quarter is issued.  Visit our links page for more fun facts on state quarters. Learn the meaning of the quarter face on each state page. Visit an exciting state attraction on each state page.         Click on quarter to visit the state page. Issued in 2008 - Okalahoma - New Mexico - Arizona - Alaska - Hawaii                                                State page snapshots for 2008             State Name Origin:                                                                       What state is this.?             The Choctaw Indian word meaning "red man," which was              coined by the Reverend Allen Wright, a Choctaw-speaking Indian.                         New Mexico The quarter's stateside face depicts the Zia Symbol on an outline of the state. The symbol comes from the Zia Pueblo Indians and has a central sun with multiple stylized rays going out to the four traditional directions from the sun. It was placed on the state flag in the 1920's. To the Zia's the number four is sacred as in the four seasons, four parts of a day, sunrise, noon, evening and night, four seasons of life, childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. The Zia's are one of 19 Pueblos in New Mexico.    New Question Bits of History Update: Here's a stickler. The United States has 19,924 km of coastline boundaries and 12,248 km of land boundaries. The land boundaries are with three countrys. What are they?                                     Click here in January 2009 for Territories quarter faces and fun facts.

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