JAYCIE HOLLAND, ALBANY, GEORGIA: My name is Jaycie Holland. And I am from Albany, Georgia. And my question is: How is the value of coins determined? And how many were minted last year?</s>JOHN MITCHELL, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, UNITED STATES MINT: The face value of American coinage and currency is mandated by law by the United States Congress. As you know, we have pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollar coins that are all of the denominations for the United States coinage. This year -- and last year as well -- we had exciting new changes to our coinage programs. The state-quarters program that features five new states each year has been an exciting change to American coinage. And that began in 1999. We actually have minted more than six billion of those quarters this year, which is more than four times the previous demand. And, believe it or not, there are 114 million Americans that are collecting each of the state quarters as we mint them. The new golden dollar, which the public has embraced, features a beautiful design of Sacagawea on the front or obverse of the new dollar coin that is also golden in color to easily distinguish it from the quarter. And we have minted more than one billion of those this year. Each of those coins then go through the Federal Reserve, where they are distributed to the public.
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