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1/4 Dollar 'Washington Quarter' White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire - Silver Proof
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of George Washington occupies the central field, rendered in high relief with finely detailed flowing hair tied with a ribbon at the nape. The legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA arcs along the upper periphery, while QUARTER DOLLAR curves along the lower border. The motto IN GOD WE TRUST appears in three lines to the right of the portrait, with the San Francisco mint mark S positioned directly below. The word LIBERTY is inscribed to the left of the bust, and the initials of the designer appear incuse on the truncation. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest quarter was the third release in the America the Beautiful series' fifth year, part of the 56-coin program authorized by the America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008. The silver proof version — struck at San Francisco — uses the same .900 fine composition inherited from pre-1965 coinage, a deliberate nod to the earlier Washington quarter standard rather than the clad composition used for circulation strikes.
The White Mountains were federally protected under the Weeks Act of 1911, which itself was a landmark in federal land acquisition — the first law permitting the government to purchase private land specifically for national forest creation in the eastern United States.