Newly minted quarter honors Olympic National Park

Published 2:55 pm Tuesday, June 14, 2011

PORT ANGELES — Olympic National Park gets its two-bits worth in a new quarter from the U.S. Mint.

One side of the coin honors the park with a depiction of a Roosevelt elk standing on Hoh River gravel bar with Mount Olympus in the background.

The Peninsula Daily News reports it’s the eighth in a series of 56 coins in the America the Beautiful Quarters Program.

Some of the first Olympic National Park coins were distributed in a ceremony Tuesday at the Port Angeles City Pier.