Hawai`i Commemorative Quarter Advisory Commission
GOVERNOR SELECTS HAWAI`I COMMEMORATIVE QUARTER DESIGN
Governor Lingle
announced that she has selected "Hawai`i, the Island State" (design #4) as
the design for Hawai`i's commemorative quarter. "I feel this design
best represents the host culture of Hawai`i and its people," she said.
The Governor made her selection based on recommendations from the Hawai`i
Commemorative Quarter Advisory Commission, which met to review the results
of a public on-line poll conducted earlier this month. Taking into
consideration the results of the poll, the commission submitted three
recommended designs to the Governor, who made her final selection. The
design selected by the Governor also received the highest number of votes
(7,262 or 28 percent of all votes received) from the public. The final
design depicts the King Kamehameha I statue on the right side of the coin,
with his hand stretching toward the eight main Hawaiian islands.
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Watch this news conference.
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View the results of the public poll.
In 1997, the United States Mint implemented the “50 States
Commemorative Coin Program,” which established a new series of quarters to
commemorate each of the 50 states. State quarters are issued in the
order in which the states ratified the Constitution and joined the
Union. Hawai`i’s quarter will be the last in the program to be
minted.
Fax number: (808) 586-2370
Mailing Address:
Hawai`i Commemorative Quarter Advisory Commission
P.O. Box 2359
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96804
Statehood Date: August 21, 1959 Coin Release: 2008
