Drawings of designs for the Washington, D.C., quarter as well as those for the five insular territories - Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands have been sent to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in anticipation of its May 15 meeting and to the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee for its May 20 meeting review.
Quarter-dollar coins commemorating the Northern Mariana Islands, the sixth in the 2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories Quarters Program, are now available.
The Walking Liberty half dollar has become an American classic.
2006 American Eagle gold proof coins nearing sales limits.
Puerto Rico’s quarter was officially welcomed to the island and debuted to the world April 2 by U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy and Gov. Luis Fortuño at a ceremony in Old San Juan.
Officials wore traditional floral headgear as they formally introduced on Dec. 9 the sixth and final coin in the 2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories quarter series honoring the Northern Mariana Islands.
The Denver Guam quarter is now the scarcest of the new 2009 designs, with a total production of 42.6 million pieces, a figure that is less than half the number of the District of Columbia and the Puerto Rico issues.
The recent controversy surrounding possible changes in the bylaws of the American Numismatic Association may last a little longer.
There is never going to be a major demand for the 1917-D Mercury dime except from regular Mercury dime collectors.
