America the Beautiful Quarters - Hot Springs
Posted by Tomi in 2010, America the Beautiful Quarters, United States on September 28, 2010
The Hot Springs National Park quarter is the first of 2010 and the first overall in the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program.
Hot Springs National Park, destination of the Dunbar-Hunter Expedition sent by President Thomas Jefferson in 1804, features prehistoric American Indian quarries. Hot Springs was first established as a national site on April 20, 1832 to conserve the water from the 47 springs that emerge from Hot Springs Mountain and to ensure that water was made available for drinking and therapy.
The reverse design for coin features the ornate facade of the main park building. One of park’s springs appears in the foreground of the image. The inscriptions read "Hot Springs", "Arkansas", "E Pluribus Unum", and the date "2010″. The reverse was designed by Don Everhart and sculpted by Joseph Menna.
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