HI State Quarter Ideas

Personally, I'd love to see a depitction of Pele (the volcano goddess), perhaps superimposed on Moana Loa...

Full Honolulu advertiser article:
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/a...41/1001/NEWS


By Loren Moreno
Advertiser Staff Writer



Kris Ikegami

HAVE A SAY ON COMMEMORATIVE COIN

The public will be invited to submit themes, concepts and narratives — between 25 and 50 words — that may be used to develop the final design for Hawai'i's commemorative quarter on a date to be announced. By visiting the Quarter Advisory Commission website, people may submit their e-mail address to receive updates. Eventually the site will include a section to submit ideas.

Landmarks, landscapes, historical buildings, flora, state icons or the outline of the state are all suggested emblems by the U.S. Mint. But any symbol may be used as long as it is evocative of Hawai'i.

The Hawai'i Commemorative Quarter Advisory Commission will make three to five submissions to the U.S. Mint by July.

Gov. Linda Lingle, who established the Hawai'i Commemorative Quarter Advisory Commission, looks at other states' quarters that have been minted. With Lingle are Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona and the youngest member of the commission, Nicholas Tomihama, a16-year-old Mid-Pacific Institute student. He's also a coin collector.


Matthew Coe, a 9-year-old from Wai'alae School, thinks Hawai'i's unofficial state fish, the humuhumunukunukuapua'a, should be put on the back of the state's commemorative quarter.

"It just kind of says Hawai'i," said Matthew.

Kris Ikegami of Makiki said she did not want "anything cheesy" on Hawai'i's quarter. For Ikegami, hula girls, flowers and lei are out of the question. Too cliche, she said.

"I'd like to see an endangered species or something that raises awareness of a critical issue," said Ikegami, 31. She suggested using the endangered state bird, the nene goose.

For the next year, the fish, the nene and many other popular state symbols will be vying for the spot on the back of Hawai'i's commemorative quarter scheduled to be released in fall 2008. The eventual design of the quarter will depend heavily on input from Hawai'i's public, said Gov. Linda Lingle in a news conference yesterday...


Star-Bulletin story:
http://starbulletin.com/2006/02/15/...story12.html



Isles ready for ideas on State Quarter

By Nelson Daranciang
ndaranciang@starbulletin.com

When it comes to the minting of state commemorative quarters, being last will not be so bad after all.

And because Hawaii completes the nation's set, Gov. Linda Lingle is predicting the quarter will be the most collected of all.

"I really believe that, because it's the last one. It's the one that completes the set. It's the 50th out of the 50 states," she said, "And I think it will be in huge demand also because we have so many visitors from around this country and from around the world. Everyone will want to have this quarter."

A state advisory committee will begin accepting ideas to submit to the U.S. Mint next month.

But what will eventually be on it? A pineapple? A green turtle or whale? A spewing volcano?