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There's a New U.S. Quarter with Bats on It

New Year, New...Quarters?

As part of the U.S. Mint's America the Beautiful Quarters Program, the new National Parks quarter dollar will celebrate American Samoa and features a mother fruit bat and her pup hanging upside down. Isn't it super cute?

The first special edition coin of the new year will be released on Feb. 3. The U.S. Mint's website describes the quarter as follows: "The image evokes the remarkable care and energy that this species puts into their offspring. The design is intended to promote awareness to the species' threatened status due to habitat loss and commercial hunting. The National Park of American Samoa is the only park in the United States that is home to the Samoan fruit bat."

According to ABC7, since 2010, the U.S. Mint has issued 56 quarter-dollar coins that feature designs which depict national parks and other national sites as part of its America the Beautiful Quarters Program.

After the fruit bat quarter, there will be four more coins made by the U.S. Mint to represent other national parks.

The U.S. Mint website adds that a coin that embossed with an image of Weir Farm National Historic Site in Connecticut will debut in April, Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve in the U.S. Virgin Islands will be released in June, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Vermont will be released at the end of August and a Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas coin will be the final specialty 25 cent piece of the 2020 collection in November.

We weren't kidding when we said "New Year, New Quarters"! Leave your thoughts and comments!

PHOTO: U.S. Mint

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