Do you hear that? It’s the sound of crushed dreams and missed opportunities. Alas, Washington’s 2007 state quarter-dollar will not feature George Washington on both obverse and reverse sides. The design candidates have been narrowed down to the final three, none of which embraced the possibility of a two-headed coin.

From the thousand plus submissions [mb], three options survived: one completely boring quarter by committee, another that’s slightly better than mediocre, and another that’s too quirky to survive the final judgement by the governor, who apparently has the final say in the matter of how the rest of the country will come to view our fair state on their laundry money. The Post-Intelligencer is running a non-scientific online poll to get a sense of public support for each design [#].

While your vote may not be completely meaningless, now is the time to draft a letter to the Governor Gregoire [wa.gov] to stop the awful design¹ before it’s too late.

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1. In case you can’t tell, the “awful design” is the one with the state outline covered with clip art. It could be made worse only by including the “apple maggot quarantine zone” sign among the state icons.

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