2017-S ATB Quarter Effigy Mounds National Proof (Silver)

Product Details

Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa, is the first release in 2017 of the U.S. Mint's popular America the Beautiful series. This Silver Proof coin would make an excellent addition to any collection!

Coin Highlights:

• Comes with protective plastic packaging.
• Obverse: Portrait of George Washington originally designed by John Flanagan, with the inscriptions of "United States of America," "Liberty," "In God We Trust" and "Quarter Dollar." Reverse: Depicts an aerial view of mounds in the Marching Bear Group.

Inscriptions are "EFFIGY MOUNDS," "IOWA," "2017" and "E PLURIBUS UNUM." Guaranteed by the U.S. Mint.

Contains .17875 oz of silver Features a "S" mint mark for the San Fransisco Mint.

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Effigy Mounds National Monument

Established in 1949, the park is considered a sacred landscape by members of many modern-day tribes whose ancestors once lived here. The majority of the mounds were constructed between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago, often to inter the dead, but sometimes for ceremonial purposes or to tell important stories.

Today, Effigy Mounds National Monument offers an excellent view of the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers, and is home to a wide diversity of flora and fauna and helped shape the lifestyles and the belief systems of the mound builders. The park is home to more than 200 mounds in a wide variety of forms, including more than 30 animal or bird-shaped effigy mounds for which the park is named.

Often more than 100 feet long individually, many of these animal and bird shaped mounds are perched high atop rugged bluffs overlooking the adjacent Mississippi River. Aside from preserving these tangible links to an ancient and highly creative people, the park features outstanding views of the Mississippi River Valley, and hosts many of the native plant and animal communities that sustained people in this area for millennia.