USA ¼ Dollar Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Kentucky

Commemorative issue

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Kentucky

Series: United States Mint’s “America the Beautiful” Quarters® Program

Obverse

The portrait in left profile of George Washington, the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797, is accompanied with the motto “IN GOD WE TRUST” and the lettering “LIBERTY” surrounded with the denomination and the inscription “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”

Lettering:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN
GOD WE
TRUST
LIBERTY
P
QUARTER DOLLAR

Engraver: William Cousins (Original Design: John Flanagan)

Reverse

A frontiersman gazing across the mountains to the West. Many pioneers used Cumberland Gap on their journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee. Inscriptions are “CUMBERLAND GAP,” “FIRST DOORWAY TO THE WEST,” “KENTUCKY,” “2016” and “E PLURIBUS UNUM.”

Lettering:
CUMBERLAND GAP
FIRST
DOORWAY
TO THE
WEST
BF JFM
KENTUCKY 2016 E PLURIBUS UNUM

Translation:
Cumberland Gap
First
Doorway
to the
West
BF JFM
Kentucky 2016 Out of Many, One

Engraver: Joseph Menna (Designer: Barbara Fox)

Edge

Reeded