District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty announced Thursday the winning Washington, D.C. quarter design featuring historical jazz legend, Duke Ellington. The Mayor officially communicated the selection to United States Mint Director Edmund Moy.
The voting was close across each, but the winning quarter design of Ellington won by 3 percentage points.
In a letter to Director Moy, Mayor Fenty could not help but bring up the Mint’s rejection of D.C.’s first inscription choice, “Taxation Without Representation.”
“As you know, the overwhelming majority of Washingtonians who participated in the entire process requested that the District quarter include the phrase “Taxation Without Representation” to help educate the country about our historical and continued status as unequal citizens.
We were disappointed by your decision to disallow this phrase, as it is a condition with which we live every day.”
2009 quarter release schedule:
- The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- Guam
- American Samoa
- The United States Virgin Islands
- The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Source: CoinNews.net