Weir Farm Nt. Historic Site - 2020 P Quarter Dollar - Connecticut State

Country: United States
Type: Circulating commemorative coin
Year: 2020
Value: Quarter Dollar = 25 Cents (0.25 USD)
Currency: Dollar (1785-date)
Composition: Copper-nickel clad copper
Mintage: 125,600,000
Mint: Philadelphia
Grade: UNC 
Weight: 5.67 g
Diameter: 24.26 mm
Thickness: 1.75 mm
Shape: Round
Orientation: Coin alignment ↑↓
References: KM# 720

Commemorative issue:
Weir Farm National Historic Site.

Series: United States Mint's "America the Beautiful" Quarters® Program.

Obverse:
The portrait in left profile of George Washington, the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

Lettering:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN
GOD WE
TRUST
LIBERTY P
JF WC
QUARTER DOLLAR

Engraver: John Flanagan. 

Reverse:
This reverse design portrays an artist, wearing a painter’s smock, painting outside Julian Alden Weir’s studio at Weir Farm. It is inspired by various images of the studio and Weir’s paintings created on the property, as well as descriptions of Weir and his fellow artist’s creative inspiration from the rural environment.

Lettering:
WEIR FARM
A NATIONAL PARK FOR ART
CONNECTICUT
2020
E PLURIBUS UNUM

Engravers: Phebe Hemphill , Justin Kuntz.

Edge:
Reeded.

Mints:
D    United States Mint, Denver, United States (1906-date)
P    United States Mint, Philadelphia, United States (1792-date)
S    United States Mint, San Francisco, United States (1854-date)
W    United States Mint, West Point, United States (1973-date)

Comments:
Weir Farm National Historic Site in Connecticut includes a 60-acre cultural landscape consisting of 15 historic structures, including houses, barns, studios, and outbuildings. The landscape features bedrock outcrops, historic gardens, stone terraces, specimen trees, orchards, fields, miles of stone laid walls, a pond, and hundreds of historic painting sites–all expertly preserved. The artistic tradition at Weir Farm is kept alive through a variety of Art in the Park programs, including an artist-in-residence program, free art supplies, night painting, and art lessons.

Referenz : KM# 720

Quelle : https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1...

Sammlung : America The Beautiful Quarters (2010-2021)