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Issued Date: February 6, 2017
Subject: Effigy Mounds National Monument
Description: The 2017 Iowa America the Beautiful quarter features an aerial view of the Marching Bear Group mounds at Effigy Mounds National Monument. Released as the 36th coin in the series, the design highlights the, "sacred landscape" with inscriptions including "EFFIGY MOUNDS," "IOWA," "2017," and "E PLURIBUS UNUM". The coin was designed by Richard Masters and sculpted by Renata Gordon.
Key Details of the 2017 Iowa Quarter:
Design Subject: Features, "an aerial view of mounds in the Marching Bear Group".
Site Honored: Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa.
Designers: Designed by AIP artist Richard Masters and sculpted by Mint Sculptor-Engraver Renata Gordon.
Obverse: Features the standard George Washington portrait.
The design is meant to represent the, "significant, sacred landscape" of the monument, which protects over 200 American Indian mounds, many in the shape of birds and animals.
Subject: Effigy Mounds National Monument
Description: The 2017 Iowa America the Beautiful quarter features an aerial view of the Marching Bear Group mounds at Effigy Mounds National Monument. Released as the 36th coin in the series, the design highlights the, "sacred landscape" with inscriptions including "EFFIGY MOUNDS," "IOWA," "2017," and "E PLURIBUS UNUM". The coin was designed by Richard Masters and sculpted by Renata Gordon.
Key Details of the 2017 Iowa Quarter:
Design Subject: Features, "an aerial view of mounds in the Marching Bear Group".
Site Honored: Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa.
Designers: Designed by AIP artist Richard Masters and sculpted by Mint Sculptor-Engraver Renata Gordon.
Obverse: Features the standard George Washington portrait.
The design is meant to represent the, "significant, sacred landscape" of the monument, which protects over 200 American Indian mounds, many in the shape of birds and animals.