Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial Quarter
The second coin in the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarter® series to be released in 2013 will be the 2013 Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial Quarter honoring the national site in the state of Ohio.. It will also be the seventeenth quarter released overall in the program which launched in 2010.
Several design candidates for the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Quarter should be released by early 2012. The Citizen’s Coinage Advisory Committee and the US Commission of Fine Arts will review these designs and forward their recommendations on to the Secretary of the Treasury. The Treasury Secretary will make the final choice for the quarter’s design and that decision should be announced later in 2012 by the US Mint along with the designs for the other four 2013 America the Beautiful Quarters.
This same design will also be used on two other series of coins from the US Mint, both struck from five ounces of .999 fine silver. These America the Beautiful Silver Coins will be produced in a bullion version as well as an uncirculated collector version and will have a diameter of three inches.
Sometime during the first half of 2013, the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial Quarter should be released. Proceeding this quarter will be the White Mountain National Forest Quarter. Following the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial Quarter will be the Great Basin National Park Quarter, Fort McHenry National Monument Quarter and the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Quarter.
Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial information
Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial of Ohio honors both a historic naval battle as well as the notion of peace. The battle is known as the Battle of Lake Erie and was fought between the United States of America and the British Empire during the War of 1812. Six British ships were captured during the battle by the United States. The memorial was constructed to be a monument to that battle and everlasting peace between Canada, Great Britain and the United States.
This memorial is also one of the tallest monuments in the United States. It is a 352 foot Doric column that was constructed with the help of several states from 1912 to 1915. The federal government assumed control of the monument in 1919, and, in 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt named it the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial National Monument after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry who led the US naval forces against the British. In 1972, it was renamed a national memorial.