Archive for October 2009
Return to Monticello
The Completion of the Westward Journey Nickel Series, was the Return to Monticello Nickel. The U.S. Mint states this is the first coin to have a President facing forward.
Name of obverse: “Jefferson, 1800″
Name of reverse: “Monticello”
Obverse: bears a new image of President Thomas Jefferson based on the Rembrandt Peale painting of 1800
Reverse: restored 1938 design of President Jefferson’s Virginia home of Monticello
Obverse Designer: Jamie Franki
Reverse Designer: Felix Schlag
Obverse Engraver: Donna Weaver
Reverse Engraver: Felix Schlag
2009 U.S. Virgin Islands Quarter
The U.S. Mint has released the 2009 U.S. Virgin Islands U.S. Territory Quarter.
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.
Sculptor: Joseph Menna
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