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WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia is getting a place on the quarter’s flip side.
After nearly 10 years of lobbying, a measure tucked into a massive federal spending bill passed by Congress will extend the popular state-quarter program to the nation’s capital as well as five territories: American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands.
The D.C. quarter is due in 2009, with a design yet to be determined.
The U.S. Mint began issuing the state coins in the order that states were admitted to the union. The program was to wind up next year. So far, about 30 billion coins have been minted.
