D.C. might not have voting representation in Congress, the right to pass a local law without federal approval or the authority to spend its money without the president’s signature, but as of 2009 it will have its own quarter.

The omnibus appropriations bill approved this week by Congress authorizes an extension of the U.S. Mint’s 50 State Quarters Program to include the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories. Beginning in 2009, the Treasury Department must issue 25-cent coins in sequential order beginning with D.C., followed by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.