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.July 2001 May 2001 I was unable to find Tennessee designs on the web. I called the office of the governor. A lady there who was apparently liaison for the quarter designs said she would send a copy of the designs to me. She never did. Designs have been submitted to the mint The final designs include depictions of Tennessee's musical heritage, Tennessee's role in ratifying the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote and depictions of Native American Sequoyah. In late April, Bart Burnell, the designer of my favorite Missouri coin, alerted me that coinworld had posted current information on the 2002 designs. http://207.86.23.52/news/050701/News-1.asp Most of the 2002 designs on this web site are derived from those posted by CoinWorld. Thank you, CoinWorld. CNN also had a web page of an AP piece. It closed saying, "The quarter program has become extremely popular. In 1999, the program's first year, the Mint circulated about 650 million of each state quarter. Now it circulates more than 1 billion." |
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Here are the designs from the CoinWorld.com piece:
Design 2, favored by the Commission of Fine Arts as not being as cluttered as Design 1, incorporates the guitar, violin and trumpet in different positions superimposed over three five-pointed stars, with MUSICAL HERITAGE in a ribbon below. Commission Historian Sue Kohler said members believed the design was crowded with the inclusion of the musical score, which would be illegible once the design was reduced to coin size. The commission rejected Design 3, symbolic of Tennessee's ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. by showing three women at the voting polls, and Design 4, depicting Cherokee Chief Sequoyah with Cherokee language symbols in the background. . |
