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Caption: "The First State," "Caesar Rodney"
Release date: January 1, 1999
Entered Statehood: December 7, 1787
Mintage: 804,565
Reverse: Caesar Rodney on horseback Captions: "The First State," "Caesar Rodney"
Engraver: William Cousins
Interesting fact: Caesar Rodney, depicted on the Reverse of the quarter, was an American lawyer and politician from St. Jones Neck, in Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, east of Dover. He was an officer of the Delaware militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, and President of Delaware during most of the American Revolution.