Scenic quarter coin to feature Fort McHenry
The Treasury has picked Fort McHenry to represent Maryland in its "America the Beautiful" quarters series. The coin will be minted in 2013. I guess McHenry is obvious because it's historically significant. But it's certainly not the most beautiful site in the state. The Chesapeake and its estuaries have a jillion places that are more attractive. What about Deep Creek Lake? Cumberland? Sharpsburg/Antietam? C&O Canal?
Across the country, most of the sites to be portrayed on quarters between next year and 2021 are National Park Service-administered. For some states the scene is easy. Yosemite for California. Grand Canyon for Arizona. Denali for Alaska, volcanoes for Hawaii and Mount Rushmore for South Dakota. Some states must have been challenging -- Nevada! Instead of the Vegas strip, they picked something called Great Basin National Park. For tiny, nondescript Delaware it's Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.
And guess what they picked for New Jersey? I didn't even know the place was in New Jersey.
Comments
Hmmm, New Jersey... let me guess. Is it the Vince Lombardi Service Area?
Posted by: MCG | September 9, 2009 2:59 PM
MCG - My guess was the Bayonne superfund site. But no, it's something else.
Posted by: Jay | September 9, 2009 3:48 PM
It may be too much to expect of a "journalist" to read the mint notice. The coins will represent NATIONAL PARKS in each of the 50 states and territories, not nice scenic spots that you like, but, spots that have been recognized far longer than you.
Posted by: Ed Shaw | September 10, 2009 7:58 AM
Is Ellis Island in New York or New Jersey?: Since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1998, Ellis Island, which is federal property, belongs within the territorial jurisdiction of both New York and New Jersey depending upon where you are. The main building, housing the Ellis Island immigration museum, is within the boundary of New York State. Since the island was expanded over many years to its current 27.5 acres, this expansion of property is now mostly within the territory of New Jersey. The entire island remains federal property first and foremost.
Posted by: Jersey Red | September 10, 2009 8:03 AM
New Jersey weirdly gets the Statue of Liberty on its quarter
Posted by: mint news blog | September 10, 2009 8:36 AM