Puerto Rico Gets a Little Richer With New Quarter from U.S. Mint
Arizona Coin Collector
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Puerto Rico Gets a Little Richer With New Quarter from U.S. Mint
March 27, 2009
Rob Kuznia--HispanicBusiness.com
Attention quarter collectors: It's time to make room
in your displays for the latest 25-cent piece.
With the recent completion of a 10-year mission to
roll out new quarters for each of the 50 states,
the U.S. Mint is poised to release the first of
five quarters commemorating the U.S. territories,
starting with Puerto Rico.
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The new quarter will be available on Monday at your
corner bank, but the official celebration will be
on Thursday in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The back of the new coin features a historic sentry
box and a hibiscus flower with the inscriptions,
PUERTO RICO and Isla del Encanto, which means "Isle
of Enchantment."
The sentry box is emblematic of the U.S. commonwealth's
trademark stone fortifications, built by the Spaniards
in the early 16th century to protect against foreign
invaders. The odiferous flower is ubiquitous across
the island.
Thursday's event will be followed by four others,
roughly eight weeks apart, in Guam, American Samoa,
the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Attending Thursday's bash will be Ed Moy, director of
the U.S. Mint, who told HispanicBusiness.com that he
loves a good quarter-commemoration party.
"Since I've been Mint director, I've been to
dozen -- they are a lot of fun," he said. "They pull
out all the stops."
The party is open to the public and will feature a
Spanish guitar performance and a coin exchange. Best
of all, every child under 18 will receive a shiny
new quarter.
Also attending the party will be Puerto Rican Gov. Luis
Fortuno and his wife, First Lady Luce Vela Gutierrez.
The "2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories
Program" began earlier this year with the D.C. quarter,
inscribed with a rendering of Duke Ellington at his
piano. The program came about due to the success of the
"50 States Quarters Program" that ran from 1999 to 2008.
The quarters were released in the order states were
admitted into the Union, beginning with Delaware and
ending with Hawaii.
Explorer Christopher Columbus arrived on the island in
1493, and it soon became a Spanish colony. The
stone-wall fortresses helped the Spaniards successfully
fend off the French, Dutch and English. But in 1898, the
island was ceded to the United States at the end of the
Spanish-American War. In 1917, its residents became
U.S. citizens.
On July 3, 1950, Congress passed a law authorizing
Puerto Rico to draft its own constitution, and it
officially became a United States commonwealth on
July 25, 1952.
The design decision was made by a committee appointed
by former Puerto Rican Gov. Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá, who
was replaced by Fortuno in January.
The U.S. Mint produced the renderings, which were
proposed to the commonwealth, and then given final
clearance by then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson on July 31.
The public and media are invited to join United
States Mint Director Ed Moy at the launch of the
commemorative quarter honoring the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico--the Isla del Encanto--at San Juan's
La Arcada in Paseo La Princesa, at 11:00 a.m.,
Thursday, April 2.
..
Mr. Jaggers
> FROM:
> http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/2009/3/27/puerto_rico_gets_a_little_richer.htm
>
> Puerto Rico Gets a Little Richer With New Quarter from U.S. Mint
[snip]
Translation: The rich people in PR will get a little richer, but the
rank-and-file Puerto Rican will continue plodding impecuniously through life
just the same as before.
James
Arizona Coin Collector
"Mr. Jaggers" <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote in message
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Hello
Here is and updated story from The Sacramento Bee.
I expect to see more news postings from different souces
for this quarter.
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FROM:
http://www.sacbee.com/livinghere/story/1771005.html
Stamps & Coins: New quarter celebrates Puerto Rico
Published: Saturday, Apr. 11, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 7D
The Sacramento Bee
There's a lot to be said for keeping things "close to
the vest." The term dates to the early days of gambling
when poker players held their cards up against their
vests so no one would see what they had.
Had a group of Taino Indians been a little more
circumspect about the hand they held some 500 years ago,
we might be living in a much different world today.
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The Tainos were trusting people who inhabited what
would become Puerto Rico.
When Columbus arrived there on his second voyage in 1493,
the Tainos warmly greeted him and his flotilla of ships.
They went so far as to show Columbus the large number of
gold nuggets in a river on the island. The generous
natives allowed him to take as much as he wanted. The
outcome was inevitable. It's not surprising the name
Puerto Rico means "rich port." A dozen years later, the
Spanish colonized the island, and the modern history of
Puerto Rico began.
The rich potential of the island was clear to other
nations, many of which entertained thoughts of conquest.
To address the threats, a massive fortress with 18-foot
thick walls was constructed around the city.
Portions of that original fort, walls and sentry stations
still stand today. One of those stations is the focal
point on the newest U.S. quarter issued recently. The
Puerto Rico quarter is one of five that will recognize
four U.S. territories plus the District of Columbia. They
are an addition to the popular 50-state quarter series
released by the U.S. Mint over the past 10 years.
The image on the coin includes a vast ocean with large,
puffy clouds and hibiscus flowers in the foreground.
Wording on the coin includes the phrase "Isla del
Encanto" or Island of Enchantment.
Puerto Rico became aligned with the United States in
1898 as a result of the Spanish American War. While its
citizens retain many of the rights of those in the 50
states, it remains a commonwealth. The fierce
independence of Puerto Ricans as an autonomous entity
is reflected in the resistance of the population to
becoming a state.
The last time statehood came into serious question was
during the final days of President Gerald Ford's
administration. In one of his final acts, he pushed to
have Puerto Rico become the 51st state. Since then,
statehood has been proposed several times, including a
2007 bill in Congress. But even Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal
Acevedo-Vila then noted, "Statehood would go against
that sense of uniqueness, culture (and) identity that
we do have under commonwealth."
The new circulating quarter is being produced at the
Denver and Philadelphia mints. They should be showing
up by the end of April and can be ordered directly
from the U.S. Mint.
..
Mr. Jaggers
The fate of the Taino is one of the first examples of Eliminationism
practiced in the Western Hemisphere, a philosophy that, unfortunately, has
been updated and now enjoys mainstream chic in our time, thanks to certain
media blowhards who for now will remain nameless.
James
Jerry Dennis
wrote:
> "Mr. Jaggers" <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote in message
>
> news:gqm5r...@enews2.newsguy.com...
>
> > Arizona Coin Collector wrote:
> >> FROM:
>
> >> Puerto Rico Gets a Little Richer With New Quarter from U.S. Mint
>
> > [snip]
>
> > Translation: �The rich people in PR will get a little richer, but the
> > rank-and-file Puerto Rican will continue plodding impecuniously through
> > life just the same as before.
>
> > James
>
> Hello
>
> Here is and updated story from The Sacramento Bee.
> I expect to see more news postings from different souces
> for this quarter.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> FROM:http://www.sacbee.com/livinghere/story/1771005.html
>
> Stamps & Coins: New quarter celebrates Puerto Rico
>
> Published: Saturday, Apr. 11, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 7D
> The Sacramento Bee
>
> There's a lot to be said for keeping things "close to
> the vest." The term dates to the early days of gambling
> when poker players held their cards up against their
> vests so no one would see what they had.
>
> Had a group of Taino Indians been a little more
> circumspect about the hand they held some 500 years ago,
> we might be living in a much different world today.
>
Puerto Rican quarters are out, and I still haven't seen a DC-P, yet.
Anybody else (besides you, Jud) having problems getting them?
Jerry
Jud
Jerry Dennis wrote:
> Puerto Rican quarters are out, and I still haven't seen a DC-P, yet.
> Anybody else (besides you, Jud) having problems getting them?
>
> Jerry
Still no DC-P quarters locally, or PR either. Went to 2 banks
yesterday. One bank said that they will NOT be getting any of the
Territorial quarters at all. Guess I can stop asking there. I was also
told that the 2009 Lincoln cents are coming mixed with other dates, no
rolls available.
I leave on yet another trip tomorrow, and will be sure to stop at a
number of banks along the way, looking for new coins. To my West coast
trader, who already sent me DC-D quarters, don't give up hope! I am
still looking!
Jerry Dennis
And to all of my D-Mint area traders, I've still got one potential
source left to check.
Jerry