Is it normal for this quarter to be lacking all the regular names, slogans and information that all the other hundreds of commemorative quarters have?
Actually, I think it's one of the best, most innovative designs the mint has done in YEARS. For PROOF coins. Like far too many of the modern designs, it looks wonderful in a large shaded pencil illustration, pretty good in a small proof coin, and terrible in circulation quality.
I can totally see where someone would ask that, and it made me chuckle because maybe that was the intent - it sure gets your attention. Perhaps part of it too is a bit of thumbing their nose at "you must have this, this, and this on a US coin." OK, cool, there it is. You didn't say where or how visible it has to be!
Just stop. In hand from fresh rolls. To me it is an eye appealing coin even if the words don't say what you want, in hand, It's s perty coin in mint state.
I thought coins were hand chiseled one by one by elves at a mint near Santa's toy factory at the North Pole
The reverse (tails) depicts Jovita Idar with her hands clasped. Within her body are inscriptions representing some of her greatest accomplishments and the newspapers for which she wrote. The inscriptions are “MEXICAN AMERICAN RIGHTS,” “TEACHER,” “JOVITA IDAR,” “NURSE,” “EVOLUCIÓN,” “ASTREA,” “EL HERALDO CRISTIANO,” “LA CRUZ BLANCA,” “JOURNALIST,” “LA CRÓNICA,” “EL PROGRESO,” “LA LIGA FEMENIL MEXICANISTA,” “QUARTER DOLLAR,” “E PLURIBUS UNUM,” and “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.” Click on image to enlarge
It’s a horrible looking coin in my opinion but everything you are asking about is in the design on her top. Not a mint error.
Strange that the Irish don't have a coin yet. I go to bilingual masses in Spanish and English these days. But my own grandfather had to build an Irish church in rural Indiana due to decades long racism. "Irish Need Not Apply" wasn't just in store fronts in NY City.
Haha, yeah, growing up in Chicago it was equal opportunity bigotry. Irish, Italian, Polish, German, you name it, everybody gets their own slur.
