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5th National Park Quarter of 2014 features Everglades National Park

April 30, 2014 – 11:29 am

Everglades National Park spans 1.5 million acres across Florida’s tip, and includes Florida Bay. It is the largest park east of the Rockies and the third largest (after Yellowstone and Death Valley) in the lower 48 states. Established in 1947, this park is unusual because it was created to preserve natural habitat and ecosystems for […]

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Great Sand Dunes National Park quarter candidate designs

April 23, 2014 – 8:55 am

In the fall of 2012, the Citizen’s Coinage Advisory Committee and the Commission of Fine Arts reviewed five designs for the reverse of the 2014 Great Sand Dunes National Park quarter. All seven designs featured the dunes with mountains in the background. Three of the seven designs showed people enjoying the park’s natural beauty. Humans […]

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4th National Park Quarter of 2014 features Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

April 15, 2014 – 10:21 am

Located in southern Colorado, between the Sangre de Cristo and San Juan Mountains, the Great Sand Dunes is one of America’s newest parks. In 2004, after the addition of 100,000 acres, it became known as Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Now the 24th coin in the National Park quarter series and 4th for […]

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Arches National Park Quarter design finalized

April 10, 2014 – 12:08 pm

On November 12, 2013, the U.S. Mint announced the final design for the Arches National Park quarters. These beautiful reverses will show the park’s famed Delicate Arch, with the La Sal mountains in the distance. This will be the third quarter design issued for 2014. The inscriptions on the coin’s reverse include the name of […]

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2014 Shenandoah National Park Quarter released at Skyline High School

April 1, 2014 – 7:50 am

The new Shenandoah National Park quarter, 22nd issue of the series and the second design for 2014, is now in circulation. On April 4, 2014, the official launch ceremony for the new Shenandoah quarter took place at Skyline High School in Front Royal, VA. After the ceremony, a coin exchange was held, where attendees were […]

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