Public voting for three designs for the official Virgin Islands territorial quarter ended Friday, June 13. The winning design “V.I. Beauty” received 6,882 votes or 52 percent. The “First in Freedom” and “Three Queens” designs garnered 4,553 and 1,887 votes respectively.
The “V.I. Beauty” quarter designs is a geographical rendition of the Virgin Islands, which includes the 3 major islands, the official bird of the Virgin Islands, the Yellow Breast or Banana Quit (Coreba Flaveola), and the official flower of the Virgin Islands, the Yellow Cedar or Yellow Elder (Tacoma Stans).
2009 quarter release schedule:
- The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- Guam
- American Samoa
- The United States Virgin Islands
- The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
More information regarding these quarters, including the design process, may be read though the US Mint page, The District of Columbia and United States Territories Quarter Program.
Source: CoinNews.net