Candidate designs for the 2016 Theodore Roosevelt National Park quarter
In September 2014, both the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee and Commission of Fine Arts met separately to review six designs for the reverse of the 2016 Theodore Roosevelt National Park quarter. All designs varied: Three showed a young Theodore Roosevelt looking at the landscape by the Little Missouri River, two showed his Maltese Cross Cabin, and the last showed 3 sandhill cranes flying above the Badlands and river, offering a birds-eye view the park’s North Unit.
The U.S. Mint recommends the groups’ favorites to the Secretary of the Treasury who then makes the final design selection. The Theodore Roosevelt National Park coin will honor this more than 70,000-acre national park. It offers visitors numerous hikes, camping, horseback riding and an opportunity to explore the extraordinary landscape where, in 1884, a young Teddy Roosevelt spent time recovering from the deaths of his mother and his young wife, who had both died the same the day.
