America's National Park Quarters

On September 1, 2016, the U.S. Mint announced the final design for the Effigy Mounds National Monument quarter, the first of five new 2017 National Park quarter designs. The reverse of the Effigy Mounds quarter will feature an overhead view of the National Monument’s signature “Marching Bear Group” – consisting of ten bear-shaped mounds and three bird-shaped mounds on a bluff overlooking the Upper Mississippi River.

Inscriptions on the reverse of the first 2017 quarter will include the name and location of the federally protected area, effigy mounds and iowa, as well as e pluribus unum and the year of issue. The reverse design was created by Richard Masters and sculpted by Renata Gordon.

This handsome quarter is a perfect match for the 2004 Statehood quarter featuring the park’s home state of Iowa. This first 2017 issue of the 2010-2021 National Park quarter series will be followed by the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Ellis Island National Monument (Statue of Liberty) and George Rogers Clark National Historical Park issues.