[Geysers] National Park quarters

[TSBryan at aol.com]

At some point while I was in Yellowstone I mentioned to somebody that the  
national parks are to be the subjects of the next series of U.S. quarters.  
Nobody else seemed to have heard about the program. It's sorta hard to 
imagine  that YNP won't be #1, but that ain't necessarily so. Easy enough to get 
info  from the US Mint website, but here's the intro page.
 
Scott Bryan
-------------
 
 
America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of  2008  
Beginning in 2010, the United States Mint will issue coins featuring 
national  parks and other national sites with new quarter-dollars minted and 
issued in  accordance with the "America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar 
Coin Act  of 2008" (Act). Thanks to this innovative multi-year program, 
approximately  every 10 weeks you will see a new design emblematic of a 
national site depicted  on the reverse of the quarter. The sites selected for this 
series of quarters  will come from each of 56 host jurisdictions comprising 
the 50 States, the  District of Columbia and each U.S. territory (the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,  Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 
the Commonwealth of the  Northern Mariana Islands). A portrait of George 
Washington will remain on the  obverse of all of the quarters.  
The Act, signed into law as Public Law 110-456 on December 23, 2008, 
requires  that within 270 days of enactment (about Sept. 19, 2009), the Secretary 
of the  Treasury must select the national park or national site to be 
honored with a  coin in each of the 56 host jurisdictions. Under the provisions of 
the _site  selection process_ 
(http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/NSQuartersProgram/index.cfm?action=siteSelection) , the Secretary will consult with 
the Secretary of the  Interior and the governor or other chief executive of 
each host jurisdiction.  After a site list has been approved, the law 
requires the United States Mint to  design, mint and issue the new quarters in the 
order in which each site was  first established as a national site.  
The proposed _design  selection_ 
(http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/NSQuartersProgram/index.cfm?action=designSelection)  process and _site  and 
design selection criteria_ 
(http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/NSQuartersProgram/index.cfm?action=siteDesignCriteria)  closely emulate the processes that 
the United  States Mint successfully used to develop and select designs for 
the 50 State  Quarters® and 2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories 
Quarters Programs.  
Please check here regularly for updates on the "America's Beautiful 
National  Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008" coins as the site and design 
selection  processes unfold this year. 
**************A bad credit score is 600 & below. Checking won't affect your 
score. See now! 
(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221323048x1201367271/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgI
D=62&bcd=JulyBadfooterNO62)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20090726/0d383b2a/attachment.html>