The Connecticut Quarter was the final release in 1999, the first year of the U.S. Mint 50 State Quarters Program. The quarter was fifth in the series, and depicts the famous Charter Oak tree that was used to hide the charter from Britain. The charter was what established the boundaries and self-rule, and was stolen from the hands of the British in 1687. The Connecticut Quarter likely has one of the simplest designs of all of the state quarters, with nothing more than the tree on it.
Connecticut is located in the Northeast United states, and is bordered by Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York. The state was first settled by the Dutch, but the settlement didn’t last. In the 1630s, English settlers came along and created prominent settlements including New Haven.
The New Haven colony and the Connecticut colony were initially two separate places, and had the first known constitutions in North America. When the two colonies merged with the Massachusetts Bay colony, they simply became known as Connecticut and were one of the original 13 colonies to revolt against British rule.
Connecticut also had Native American settlers before the settlers came from Europe in the 1600s. The area was split and divided, and then put back together many different times during its early years. Connecticut also held claim to an area known as the Western Reserve, which was land that went all the way into Northern Ohio. This land was eventually ceded to the government, creating the current state boundaries of Connecticut.