Tulsa Business Staff
9/10/2009
The U.S. Mint honors the Chickasaw National Recreation Area in south-central Oklahoma through its new quarter-dollar coin program.The Chickasaw design will be the 10th to be featured on coins released under the U.S. Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program, and will be issued in 2011. A landmark in natural resource conservation, Chickasaw National Recreation Area is the first and only national park area in the U.S. established at the request of an Indian Tribe, the Chickasaw Nation. For more than 100 years the park has been a refuge for outdoor tradition, a protected niche of parkland. Native Americans, early settlers of the surrounding plains, and present day Americans all have sought recreation here in shaded woodlands threaded by clear-running streams and dotted with mineral and freshwater springs. It was established as a national site in 1902. The U.S. Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program is a multi-year initiative authorized by Public Law 110-456 — the America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008. The act directs the U.S. Mint to mint and issue 56 circulating quarter-dollar coins with reverse designs emblematic of a national park or other national site in each state, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. The quarters will be issued sequentially each year, in the order in which the featured site was first established as a national park or site. The coins' obverse, or heads, will feature a restored version of the familiar 1932 portrait of George Washington, including subtle details and the beauty of the original model.
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