The American Memorial design will be the 47th to be featured on coins released under the America the Beautiful Quarters Program, and will be issued in 2019.
American Memorial Park honors the American and Marianas people who gave their lives during the Marianas Campaign of World War II.
More than 5,000 names are inscribed on a memorial that was dedicated during the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Saipan.
Within the 133-acre boundary are beaches, sports fields, picnic sites, boat marinas, playgrounds, walkways, and a 30-acre wetland and mangrove forest.
It was established as a national site in 1978.
The U.S. Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program is a multi-year initiative authorized by U.S. Public Law 110-456 — the America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008.
The Act directs the U.S. Mint to mint and issue 56 circulating quarter-dollar coins with reverse (tails side) designs emblematic of a national park or other national site in each state, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Marianas.
The quarters will be issued sequentially each year, in the order in which the featured site was first established as a national park or site.
