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TO NATIONAL EDITORS:
United States Mint Launches 22nd Coin in America the Beautiful
Quarters@ Program
Latest quarter honors Shenandoah National Park in Va.
FRONT ROYAL, Va., April 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United
States Mint today launched the America the Beautiful Quarters@ Program
coin honoring Shenandoah National Park in Va.
This is the 22nd coin in the bureau's America the Beautiful Quarters
Program, a multi-year initiative to honor national parks and other
national sites. The coin's reverse (tails) design depicts a day hiker
taking in the view from Little Stony Man summit.
The event took place in the auditorium of Front Royal's Skyline High
School. Guest speakers included U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, Shenandoah
National Park Superintendent Jim Northup and Molly Ward, Virginia
Secretary of Natural Resources.
Mentioning his many ties to Virginia, United States Mint Deputy
Director Richard Peterson said: "I am very happy to be in Front Royal,
where my father attended Randolph-Macon Academy, to honor a state with
such a rich history and promising future, a state my family and I call
home. The Shenandoah National Park Quarter emphasizes one of my
favorite things about Virginia-its natural beauty-beauty that must be
enjoyed and at the same time protected for future generations."
Following the event, members of the public exchanged their currency
for $10 rolls of newly minted Shenandoah National Park quarters.
Participants at the event were among the first in the nation to get
the new quarter.
The Federal Reserve Bank released millions of general circulating
Shenandoah National Park quarters March 31. The same day, the United
States Mint opened sales for collectible bags and rolls of Shenandoah
National Park quarters from its facilities in Denver, Philadelphia,
and San Francisco. Orders will be accepted at the bureau's online
catalog at http://www.usmint.gov/catalog and at 1-800-USA-MINT
(872-6468). Hearing- and speech-impaired customers with TTY equipment
may order by calling 1-888-321-MINT (6468).
The United States Mint is administering the America the Beautiful
Quarters Program in accordance with Public Law 110-456, the America's
Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008. Each year
until 2020, five new quarters will be released with reverse designs
representing the honored national sites. The final coin in the
program will be released in 2021. The quarters are being issued in
the order in which the honored site was established.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
-- B-roll of the Shenandoah National Park Quarter is available at
http:/youtu.be/EdUGRpTR96g.
-- Free lesson plans based on the America Beautiful Quarters Program
are available at http://www.usmint.gov/kids/teachers/.
-- Digital images of the Shenandoah National Park Quarter are
available at
http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/?action=photo#AmericaTheBeautiful.
-- Information about the Shenandoah National Park is available at
http://www.nps.gov/shen/index.htm.
-- Additional information about the America the Beautiful Quarters@
Program is available at http://www.usmint.gov/mint\_programs/atb/.
-- For information about the United States Mint, please visit
http://www.usmint.gov/about\_the\_mint/.
SOURCE United States Mint
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/CONTACT: United States Mint: Office of Corporate Communications (202-354-7222), Shenandoah National Park, Leslie Velarde (540) 999-3500 x3183
/Web Site: http://www.usmint.gov
CO: United States Mint
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