The 11th issue and first 2012 design of the America’s National Park Quarter Series, featuring El Yunque National Forest in the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico, was released by the U.S. Mint on January 23, 2012. The popular 2010-2021 coin series is honoring a national park or historic site in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 U.S. territories.
The reverse of the first 2012 issue features an endangered coqui tree frog and the threatened Puerto Rican parrot, which are both indigenous to El Yunque – the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. National Forest System. The obverse of the coin bears a smaller restored version of the original George Washington portrait introduced on U.S. quarters in 1932.
Add the new El Yunque National Forest quarters to your collection.
