On Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, the National Park Service and United States Mint officiallyintroduced Everglades National Park Quarters to a crowd of over 1,000 people.

Thursday's event took place near the national park in Florida which is depicted on the coin's reverse.

Babers and other officials later handed out Everglades National Park quarters to about700 schoolchildren who attended the ceremony.

Following the event, attendees swapped cash for $10 rolls of the new coin. $21,000 in quarters were exchanged.

Designed by Joel Iskowitz and sculpted by Joseph Menna, the coin depicts an anhinga with outstretched wingson a willow tree with a roseate spoonbill in the mid-ground.

Joel Iskowitz writes:

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