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Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Reverse: "Sentry Box"

Description: Features a historic sentry box and a hibiscus flower with the inscriptions, PUERTO RICO and Isla del Encanto, which means "Isle of Enchantment."

 

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Guam

Reverse: "Flying Proa, Latte Stone and Island"

Description: Depicts the outline of the island, a flying proa (a seagoing craft built by the Chamorro people), a latte stone (an architectural element used as the base of homes) and the inscriptions, GUAM and Guahan I Tanó ManChamorro, which means "Guam - Land of the Chamorro."

 

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American Samoa

Reverse: "Ava Bowl, Whisk and Staff"

Description: Depicts the ava bowl ("tanoa"), whisk and staff in the foreground with a coconut tree on the shore in the background and the inscriptions, AMERICAN SAMOA and SAMOA MUAMUA LE ATUA, the motto of American Samoa, which means "Samoa, God is First."

 

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U.S. Virgin Islands

Reverse: "Banana Quit, Yellow Cedar and Islands"

Description: Features an outline of the three major islands, the yellow breast or banana quit, its official bird; the yellow cedar or yellow elder, the official flower; and a Tyre Palm Tree with the inscriptions, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS and United in Pride and Hope, the official motto of the territory.

 

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Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Reverse: "Carolinian Canoe, Latte Stone and Mwar"

Description: Represents the wealth of the islands in its natural resources of land, air and sea. Near the shore stands a large limestone latte, the supporting column of ancient indigenous Chamorro structures. A canoe of the indigenous Carolinians represents the people's seafaring skills across vast distances. Two white fairy tern birds fly in characteristic synchrony overhead. A Carolinian mwar (head lei) composed of plumeria, langilang (Ylang Ylang), angagha (peacock flower) and teibwo (Pacific Basil) borders the bottom of the design near the inscription, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.

 

[TheEastBoy]

Sehen ja ganz nett aus!

 

[Caffee]

So wird der erste der sechs neuen Quarters aussehen; er ist der US-Bundeshauptstadt Washington bzw. dem District of Columbia gewidmet. Zentrales Motiv ist der in Washington DC geborene Jazz-Musiker Duke Ellington:

Ab wann genau die Münze erhältlich sein wird, steht noch nicht fest. Aber Washington DC ist die erste der Vierteldollar-Münzen, die im kommenden Jahr erscheinen. Daher tippe ich mal auf Ende Januar/Anfang Februar ...

Tschüs,
Christian

Ich schätze auf der Money Fair halte ich sie zum ersten mal in der Hand.

 

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Ich schätze auf der Money Fair halte ich sie zum ersten mal in der Hand.

Die U.S. Mint schreibt: The quarter honoring the District of Columbia debuts in late January 2009.