Alaska Quarter
Alaska State Quarter
The Alaska State Quarter was released in 2008 as the forty ninth coin of the 50 State Quarters Program. The obverse of the coin was designed by William Cousins after John Flanagan. The reverse of the coin was designed by Susan Gamble and engraved by Charles Vickers. The reverse design features a wildlife scene from Alaska. A grizzly bear emerges from a river clutching a salmon in its mouth.
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Categories: 50 State Quarters, United States Quarters
The image on the reverse side of the coin is apparently Brooks River Falls in Katmai National Park on the Alaska Peninsula. I am very familiar with the site. It was a good choice as representative of the Last Frontier.
Ratings:I think its nice how the mint employees will take credit for even the mediocre coins submitted by the citizens who designed them. Gold? Oil? Nat Gas? Nah, lets pick a Grizzly eating Salmon. I think I have that in velvet - it glows under blacklight. Maybe we should have put one of the Ice Road Truckers on the back.
Ratings:An otherwise fine subject, but the low coin relief is not sufficient to capture this nature scene enough to do it justice.
Ratings:Another “nice” design, though uninspired and not really special, thus befitting a series like the States Quarters. I feel that this would have made a great 1970’s “sofa painting” but doesn’t really do much as a coin design.
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