Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano & members of the Arizona Quarter Commission will ceremonially strike Arizona commemorative quarter-dollars as the United States Mint at Denver hosts Arizona Quarter Day on Friday, May 16th.
The official Arizona Quarter Launch will be in Phoenix on June 2nd, 2008. The Arizona quarter is the 48th coin in the 50 State Quarters Program, which issues new quarters in the order the states were admitted into the Union. Known as the "Grand Canyon State," Arizona was the 48th state admitted into the Union on February 14th, 1912.