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<p>[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 8407083, member: 15588"]Ah, I see how that was easily misunderstood. I should have said "The Spanish language" to clear up that ambiguity.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a quick look, Spanish has appeared on other coins prior to this set. "Isla del Encanto" appeared on the Puerto Rico territory quarter in 2009 and technically on the "El Yunque" ATB quarter in 2012. So Spanish on the 2022 Nina Otero-Warren quarter represents at least the 3rd time (I have may missed others) Spanish has appeared on a circulating US coin. Latin has of course appeared numerous times as "E Pluribus Unum" and the State/Territory quarters also featured Hawaiian, Samoan and Chamorro. And even braille appeared on the Hellen Keller quarter. I don't think the Cherokee language has appeared on a circulating coin before, though, only on commemoratives. US coinage has diversified linguistically quite a bit this century.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2009-dc-us-territories-quarters-coin-puerto-rico-uncirculated-reverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2012-america-the-beautiful-quarters-coin-el-yunque-puerto-rico-uncirculated-reverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 8407083, member: 15588"]Ah, I see how that was easily misunderstood. I should have said "The Spanish language" to clear up that ambiguity. After a quick look, Spanish has appeared on other coins prior to this set. "Isla del Encanto" appeared on the Puerto Rico territory quarter in 2009 and technically on the "El Yunque" ATB quarter in 2012. So Spanish on the 2022 Nina Otero-Warren quarter represents at least the 3rd time (I have may missed others) Spanish has appeared on a circulating US coin. Latin has of course appeared numerous times as "E Pluribus Unum" and the State/Territory quarters also featured Hawaiian, Samoan and Chamorro. And even braille appeared on the Hellen Keller quarter. I don't think the Cherokee language has appeared on a circulating coin before, though, only on commemoratives. US coinage has diversified linguistically quite a bit this century. [IMG]https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2009-dc-us-territories-quarters-coin-puerto-rico-uncirculated-reverse.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2012-america-the-beautiful-quarters-coin-el-yunque-puerto-rico-uncirculated-reverse.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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