January 29, 2019 – 11:44 am
Candidate Designs for new 2019 Lowell National Historical Park Quarter
The U.S. Mint commissioned its artists to create candidate designs for the Lowell quarter; 18 were reviewed for accuracy, edited, finalized and presented to the Mint in September 2017. The Citizen Coinage Advisory Committee selected the design featuring a female textile worker holding a threaded spindle and the Commission of Fine Arts selected the design showing a female textile worker at a loom powered by a bobbin battery. Additional input from Lowell National Historical Park and the Governor of Massachusetts were also considered.
Located northwest of Boston, the Lowell National Historical Park covers 137 acres along the Merrimack River where visitors can experience six miles of canals, mills, a boardinghouse, churches and ethnic neighborhoods.
January 17, 2019 – 12:26 pm
Founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles, Lowell, Massachusetts is located along the Merrimack River rapids, 25 miles northwest of Boston. The Lowell National Historical Park covers 137 acres where visitors can see the hydro dam and nearly six miles of canals that harnessed the river’s energy; the mills where cloth was produced; a boardinghouse representing the dozens of like buildings that housed workers; their houses of worship, and the ethnic neighborhoods.
Learn more about the Lowell National Historical Park.
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November 9, 2018 – 3:21 pm
The new Block Island National Wildlife Refuge quarter, 45th issue of the National Park quarter series and 5th and final design for 2018, is now in circulation. The U.S. Mint’s official launch ceremony took place in the Block Island National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center in Charlestown, Rhode Island on Thursday, November 15. After the ceremony, attendees were able to get $10 rolls of the new 2018 Block Island quarters at face value.
The special reverse design of the new quarters depicts a black-crowned night-heron flying above the beach at Cow Cove with a view toward Sandy Point and the North Light lighthouse. Add the new Block Island quarters to your collection now.
September 10, 2018 – 9:19 am
The new Cumberland Island National Seashore quarter, 44th issue of the series and the fourth design for 2018, is now in circulation. On August 30, 2018, the official launch ceremony for the new Cumberland Island quarter took place in the Camden County High School Auditorium, which is located in Kingsland, Georgia.
After the ceremony, a coin exchange was held where attendees were able to get $10 rolls of the new quarters at face value. This issue depicts a snowy egret about to take flight, with a salt marsh in the background. Add the new Cumberland Island quarters to your collection now.
August 20, 2018 – 2:03 pm
The U.S. Mint announced the final design for the 2018 Block Island National Wildlife Refuge quarter on August 1, 2017 at the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money in Denver. Featuring the 5th and final new National Park quarter design for 2018, the Block Island coin will depict a black-crowned night-heron flying above the beach at Cow Cove with a view towards Sandy Point and the North Light lighthouse. Designed by Chris Costello of the U.S. Mint’s Artistic Infusion Program, the reverse will also bear the inscriptions block island, rhode island, 2018 and e pluribus unum.
The Block Island National Wildlife Refuge is located about 12 miles off the southern coast of Rhode Island and is a critical migratory bird stopover on the Atlantic flyway visited each year by over 70 different species of songbirds. Now comprising 127 acres on Block Island, the refuge was founded in 1973 on land transferred by the U.S. Coast Guard. The refuge is most visited for bird watching during the migratory Fall season, however Block Island is a popular destination for bird watchers, photographers and sport fishermen throughout the year.
