{"id":118060,"date":"2014-09-03T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sand-dunes-quarter-to-be-released-2\/"},"modified":"2014-09-03T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T00:30:00","slug":"sand-dunes-quarter-to-be-released-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sand-dunes-quarter-to-be-released-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Dunes quarter to be released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2613eb51-8d6e-4827-ad70-561749e712a7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2613eb51-8d6e-4827-ad70-561749e712a7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2613eb51-8d6e-4827-ad70-561749e712a7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2613eb51-8d6e-4827-ad70-561749e712a7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1861\" height=\"1944\" alt=\"The Great Sand Dunes quarter will be officially released today.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Great Sand Dunes quarter will be officially released today.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Coin collectors, rejoice: Today, the United States Mint will unveil a new quarter \u2013 the Great Sand Dunes National Park quarter \u2013 at a commemorative celebration at the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Mosca, Colo.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, excitement about the new coin was already palpable, with $10 rolls of Great Sand Dunes quarters going for $18 on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the U.S. Mint started issuing quarter-dollar coins honoring national parks and other national sites as part of the mint\u2019s \u201cAmerica the Beautiful Quarters\u201d program. The Great Sand Dunes quarter is one of five such quarters to debut in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Each coin in the series shares a common obverse or \u201chead\u2019s side,\u201d emblazoned with the 1932 portrait of George Washington by John Flanagan.<\/p>\n<p>But the \u201ctail\u2019s side\u201d of the Great Sand Dunes quarter depicts \u201ca father and son playing in the sand next to the creek bed. The distinctive mountains and sand dunes are featured in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s event will be free to the public. Organizers said they are expecting to draw hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, attendees can exchange bills for rolls of the new Great Sand Dunes National Park quarters. 1st Southwest Bank will be doing the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The smallest bill they\u2019ll exchange is a $10 and the largest is the $100.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are honored to be part of this historic event,\u201d said Kent Curtis, president and CEO of 1st Southwest Bank, in a release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Great Sand Dunes are a natural wonder in the communities we serve and it is our pleasure to be part of commemorating this phenomenon which brings so many to our region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>1st Southwest Bank will have the Great Sand Dunes quarter available at its Durango branch on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>releasing coin today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-118060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118060"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=118060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}