Category Archives: Cumberland Island National Seashore

United States Mint releases complete set of Proof 2018 America the Beautiful Quarters on January 23

Washington — Sales will open for the 2018 United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set (product code 18AP) on January 23, 2018, at noon Eastern Time (ET).

This year’s set—priced at $15

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The quarter that might have been: Cumberland Island’s rejected turtle design

(Background photo by Mary Fairchild)
As Mint News Blog readers know, a popular choice for one of the 2018 America the Beautiful quarter designs—a diving sea turtle representing Cumberland Island National Seashore—has been overruled. A prompt from the comments section led us to ponder what made the rejected design special, and to see if we could discover why it was rejected in favor of a more predictable motif

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The quarter that might have been: Cumberland Island’s rejected turtle design

(Background photo by Mary Fairchild)
As Mint News Blog readers know, a popular choice for one of the 2018 America the Beautiful quarter designs—a diving sea turtle representing Cumberland Island National Seashore—has been overruled. A prompt from the comments section led us to ponder what made the rejected design special, and to see if we could discover why it was rejected in favor of a more predictable motif

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