The new San Antonio Missions National Historical Park quarter, 49th in the series and fourth of five to debut in 2019, is in circulation as of August 26. Included among those quarters issued by the Denver and Philadelphia Mints are some of the 2 million San Antonio Missions quarters struck at the West Point Mint. […]
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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Quarter design finalized
May 22, 2019 – 7:20 am
On August 14, 2018, the U.S. Mint announced the final design for the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park quarter at the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money in Philadelphia. The reverse shows elements of the Spanish Colonial Real coin used to pay tribute to the missions. Within the quadrants are symbols of the […]
Candidate Designs for new 2019 San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Quarter
May 10, 2019 – 1:53 pm
The U.S. Mint commissioned its artists to create candidate designs for the San Antonio Missions quarter; 15 were reviewed for accuracy, edited, finalized and presented to the Mint in September 2017. Among those 15 designs, five featured mission bell towers. Three proposals made a bell the central focus of the coin’s reverse. Two designs emphasized […]
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park featured in 49th National Park Quarter series
April 24, 2019 – 9:21 am
Founded by various Spanish Catholic orders to spread Christianity across the southwest in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the nearly 819-acre San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in south-central Texas is made up of four frontier communities. The oldest is Mission Espada, established in 1690 near present-day Augusta, but relocated to San Antonio […]
