The design of the bicentennial quarter is a tribute to the 200th anniversary of the American Revolution. The obverse side of the coin features a profile of George Washington, the first President ...

Like other bicentennial quarters, the front of this coin shows George Washington's profile and the dates 1776-1976. However, ...

The U.S. Mint also produced a series of bicentennial quarters to commemorate the event — and many of those now command great sums of money as the country approaches its 250 th birthday.

This design was originally composed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser as a candidate entry for the 1932 quarter, which honored the bicentennial of George Washington’s birth. The inscriptions ...