Candidate Designs for new 2019 San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Quarter

The U.S. Mint commissioned its artists to create candidate designs for the San Antonio Missions quarter; 15 were reviewed for accuracy, edited, finalized and presented to the Mint in September 2017.

Among those 15 designs, five featured mission bell towers. Three proposals made a bell the central focus of the coin’s reverse. Two designs emphasized architectural details. Six included water symbols in a nod to Piedras Creek which flowed along an aqueduct to irrigate Mission San Francisco de Espada’s farmland. One design illustrated a figure hoeing the ground with cattle in the background.

Candidate Designs for new 2019 San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Quarter

Candidate Designs for new 2019 San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Quarter