September 24, 2015 – 7:09 am
The new Bombay Hook quarter was released September 14th. On Sept. 18th, the official launch ceremony took place at the visitor center in Smyrna, Delaware.
In the summer of 2014, the U.S. Mint revealed the final design for Delaware’s Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge quarter. As the fourth release for 2015, this beautiful quarter will feature the Great Blue Heron in the foreground and Egret in the background. The Great Blue Heron can be found year around in the park’s […]
In February 2014, the Commission of Fine Arts met to review eight designs for the reverse of the 2015 Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge quarter. All eight designs featured birds in the marshy wetlands. Three of them showed birds in flight as the dominant feature. As a pristine, and one of the largest unaltered tidal […]
Located about 10 miles from Dover, Delaware, the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge provides critical habitat for birds migrating between the Gulf of Mexico and Canada. Bombay Hook covers 16,000 acres and was established in 1937. Thanks to monies received from the Federal Duck Stamp program, which sells stamps to hunters, stamp collectors and conservationists, […]