Coin Collector 2009 6-Piece PR70 DC and Territorial State Quarters FDOI Le 729 TPC9_P6SOK61

This special set is part of a First Day of Issue Limited Edition of 729 . Virgin Islands quarter 2009 Northern Mariana Islands quarter Presentation box Product Features: State Quarter Program - innovative 10-year program from the United States Mint -Started in 1999 and ended in 2008; every states reverse design is unique and specific to that state District of Columbia - features native son Duke Ellington, the internationally renowned composer and musician, seated at a grand piano with the inscriptions, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, DUKE ELLINGTON and JUSTICE FOR ALL, the Districts motto Commonwealth of Puerto Rico - features a historic sentry box and a hibiscus flower with the inscriptions, PUERTO RICO and Isla del Encanto, which means Isle of Enchantment Guam - depicts the outline of the island, a flying proa (a seagoing craft built by the Chamorro people), a latte stone (an architectural element as the base of homes) and the inscriptions, GUAM and Guahan I Tano ManChamorro, which means Guam - Land of the Chamorro American Samoa - depicts the ava bowl (tanoa), whisk and staff in the foreground with a coconut tree on the shore in the background and the inscriptions, AMERICAN SAMOA and SAMOA MUAMUA LE ATUA, the motto of American Samoa, which means Samoa, God is First U.S. Virgin Islands - features an outline of the three major islands, the yellow breast or banana quit, its official bird; the yellow cedar or yellow elder, the official flower; and a Tyre Palm Tree with the inscriptions, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS and United in Pride and Hope, the official motto of the territory Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands - represents the wealth of the islands in its natural resources of land, air and sea. Near the shore stands a large limestone latte, the supporting column of ancient indigenous Chamorro structures. A canoe of the indigenous Carolinians represents the peoples seafaring skills across vast distances. Two white fairy tern birds fly in characteristic synchrony overhead. A Carolinian mwar (head lei) composed