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Designs for Guam quarter now online
Guam Gov. Felix P. Camacho yesterday released two designs for the Guam quarter prepared by artists of the U.S. Mint as part of the District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program.
Each design can be voted on and the design with the highest amount of votes will be recommended to the U.S. Mint. Votes will be collected until June 14, 2008.
“I encourage all residents to take part in the selection process,” Camacho said. “The Guam quarter will be a lasting symbol of our heritage and our people.”
Camacho submitted the two design narratives selected from 59 submissions from the people of Guam.
The U.S. Mint has spent the past two months working closely with the Guam Quarter Dollar Program Design Evaluation and Selection Process Task Force in developing the designs that are emblematic of Guam. Final designs for the Guam quarter are expected to be completed by July.
A provision of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 (Section 622 Section 5112 of Title 31 United States Code), signed by President Bush on Dec. 26, 2007, authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a series of circulating commemorative quarter-dollar coins in 2009 with reverse designs emblematic of the U.S. Territories.
The image of George Washington as seen on the obverse of the 50 State Quarters coins will remain unchanged. The reverse of each quarter will be distinctly different with images emblematic of the District of Columbia and each of the U.S. territories. (PR)
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ON THE NET: http://guamgovernor.net/content/view/118/1/
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Antonio A. Aquiningoc | Oct 14, 2008 | Reply
Gentlemen/Ladies, the design for the GUAM quarter looks great, except for one, and that is the word GUAHAN. We grew up knowing GUAM as GUAM and that is the way it should be kept. This thing about bringing back history is obsurd. So, please discontinue calling GUAM, GUAHAN because that is a historical thing and should be buried as a dead issue. I know that it was brought up by our SAIPANESE neighbors, but we are GUAMANIANS and we are known in the USA as GUAM and we should keep it like that. Thank you!
Tiffany | Aug 17, 2009 | Reply
GUAHAN is GUAM in the native language of the island, Chamoru. If you grew up on the island or even knew an ounce of the heritage, you’d know that. Visitors and people from the mainland who aren’t as ignorant and actually KNOW about our island are the ones that grew up knowing “GUAM” as, “GUAM”. This design is supposed to give the people from Guam a chance to let someone out there who probably has never even heard of the island, find out a little more about us. How can bringing back the originality of our island name be obsurd?! It is through history that we learn who we are! Yes, we are Guam…but Guahan is the native Chamoru way of saying GUAM, it is our language and our heritage…it SHOULD NOT “buried as a dead issue”.
Crystal | Sep 5, 2009 | Reply
I agree with tiffany, I got the Guam quarter from a burger king around the corner and I did a little research cause I was interested in what kind of island Guam is.
It’s native name should have been on thwcquater
QUENGA! | Sep 11, 2009 | Reply
Antonio, you are proof of another “Guamanian” raised in the states that doesn’t know his heritage, culture or true Guam way of life. The new quarter is awesome and it shows respect in the native language. YOU may be a “Guamanian”, but WE are Chamorro! You need to take history classes from a good history teacher who understands what history is. It defines who we are how far we’ve come. The only obsurd piece of history that needs to be a dead issue and forgotten is your comment!