ATB Quarters - portraits not authorized in the act. Yet we have them - Why?

I was looking at the standards for the act authorizing the American the Beautiful quarters. Read them yourself here.

One section says:
Designs must not include any head-and-shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, nor can designs include a portrait of a living person. Designs must not include an outline or map of a host jurisdiction.

So what happened with the Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site quarters?? Both clearly have portraits on them.
Anyone know why this happened? Not that I disagree with having either on the coin. Although the design for the Frederick Douglass quarter has got to be one of the uglyest designs to come out of the mint since the IKE dollar.
Answers? Comments??

 

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I'm just guessing, but both those designs include the full body image of the two people, not a "head and shoulders or bust" design as is disallowed.

 

I'm just guessing, too, but I suspect the design selection panel did exactly as they pleased.

 

Dave - you are right. They are more than just a portrait or bust like on the most of the other coinage (pennies, nickels, dimes, etc.). So I suspect the intent was since the obverse of modern coinage has a portrait or bust, they didn't want the same on the reverse. Thus having a two headed coin. (Granted there would be a different head on each side, but boy might that lead to a lot of bar room fights.)

 

It's outrageous! I think @Sundance79 should demand a Total Recall, and if that doesn't work, then he should take it to a higher authority........Arnold, himself!

Chris

 

Then there's this :https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp...-coin-mount-rushmore-south-dakota-reverse.jpg

 

No, there isn't?

 

Here it is:

 

cpm9ball - You are so right! Congress should stop what its doing, recall the troops from the Middle East, declare marshial law and have a full investigation into this. And in the meantime recall all the coinage just as they did with gold in 1933.

 

So does that make the quarter with Mount Rushmore a 3 headed quarter?? (5 - if you count the workers!)

 

I try to keep one of those on hand just in case the need arises to flip a coin. "I call heads!" "But, but, but..." "Okay, I call the side with Washington's head!"

 

I think in the case of the Mount Rushmore quarter, Washington is on both sides. So you could win with either side.That perhaps better than the old, "Heads I win, Tails you lose."

 

It's OK, no shoulders, just the heads.