Still wondering what’s up with the D.C. quarter that’s supposed to hit the streets in 2009? Wonder no more — we may have a winner.

Today the U.S. Mint’s Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee met to review three proposed designs for the D.C. quarter — Duke Ellington, Benjamin Banneker, and Frederick Douglass — and propose their choice to the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson. And who did they choose? Benjamin Banneker. Short of Paulson overruling the committee, it looks like the astronomer, mathematician, and clockmaker will grace the city’s commemorative quarter.