On August 13, 2019, the U.S. Mint announced the final design for the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park quarter at the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money in Rosemont, IL. Chosen was Donna Weaver’s design showing a young girl completing the planting of a Norway spruce seedling near an established tree. The reverse design is […]
Category Archives: 2020
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park Quarter Design Finalized
October 28, 2020 – 3:57 pm
Candidate Designs for new 2020 Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park Quarter
September 19, 2020 – 9:00 am
In 2018, the U.S. Mint commissioned its artists to create candidate designs for the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, VT. Eleven were reviewed for accuracy, edited, finalized, and then presented to the Citizen Coinage Advisory Committee and Commission of Fine Arts. Two reverse designs featured a sugar maple sapling being planted by a pair […]
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park featured in 54th National Park Quarter Series
September 18, 2020 – 9:25 am
Located in Woodstock, VT, the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is devoted to land stewardship. Its mission originated with George Perkins Marsh born here in 1801. A young George witnessed the deforestation and erosion of Mount Tom located behind the family’s farm due to the era’s fast-moving lumber industry and a growing nation’s need for construction […]
New 2020 Salt River Bay Quarter Released
September 17, 2020 – 1:54 pm
The new 2020 Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve quarter, the 53rd issue in the 2010-2021 National Park quarter series, has been released and is now in circulation. This third new quarter design for 2020 features Salt River Bay, a federally protected are on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. A […]
Salt River Bay National Park Quarter design finalized
September 14, 2020 – 9:49 am
On August 13, 2019 at the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money in Rosemont, IL, the U.S. Mint unveiled the final design for the 2020 Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve quarter. Honoring a protected national site on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the reverse design by Richard Masters […]
