It looks like we’re getting the best San Antonio ATB quarter design
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I can’t wait to see the 5 ounce version of this!
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Nice design .... Reminds me of some European designs....Cheers, RickO
I like it.
Interesting
Never seen a lion wearing a crown on US coinage before!
Nice.
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Definitely of Spanish Real influence with the addition of the Alamo. Looks like they even added a depiction of San Antonio's River Walk there in the lower right quadrant.
This from a prior posting of mine regarding San Antonio's River Walk when the Final Four was being played there:
My own "Remember the City of the Alamo" silver is of silver bells rather than silver coins.
Listening to the post game commentary on ESPN Radio one of the announcers just commented that his take from today's Final Four was how great "The River Walk" there in San Antonio was. He added that San Antonio was a great city for The Final Four and he would welcome it being held there every year.
He then went on to comment how cold it was in the northern city where the Final Four is scheduled to be played next year and then capped it off by mentioning that today it was 35 degrees in Chicago and raining.
Here is a summary of my own memories of my first San Antonio River Walk experience.
"Having just acquired a DVD, for the first time since its TV airing on December 20, 1992, I was able to watch the "Bob Hope's Four-Star Christmas Fiesta from San Antonio" Christmas Special that I had been present at for its filming late that Fall during the first week of December.
Here are some screen shots from the DVD. They actually include those of us lined along the River Walk and if you look closely you can see in the first photo (on the far left) one of the spectators with his video camera filming the filming.
Little did I know at the time that we were being included as background.
[Click link below to original posting to see referenced photos]
As described below, the photos include Bob Hope and Phylicia Rashad as they serenaded each other singing "Silver Bells" as they floated down the River of the San Antonio River Walk.
FWIW, here is a summary of my recollections from that day:
I became partial to "Silver Bells" when by chance I got to watch Bob Hope and Phylicia Rashad (the Cosby show mom) serenade each other in a boat on San Antonio's River Walk during the filming of one of, if not the last, of the Bob Hope Christmas Specials. (I believe it was the last one where he went to visit "The Troops" though there was at least one other filmed from his home.) I was in San Antonio on business and had my video camera with me back before camcorders were common place. I was allowed to video tape the multiple takes and somewhere I still have the footage on tape. Although it was still late Fall, the whole River Walk had been lit up with Christmas lights for the taping of the Special.
One of the things about that magical evening that has stayed with me over the years was watching Bob Hope escort his wife Dolores over the arched bridge that crossed the waterway in front of their hotel on the River Walk. Despite their evident impaired mobility it was touching to see them ascend the arched bridge together arm in arm. Another thing that impressed me was how gracious Bob Hope was to the film crew when the cameras were turned off. He was more concerned about their comfort and well being than his own on that somewhat chilly evening. His eyesight was so poor at that point that the cue cards contained at most two or three words on each one so that the words could be big enough for him to read them.
So when I now hear "Silver Bells" it takes me back to that memory of a man from "The Greatest Generation" (as so termed by Tom Brokaw,) and how he exemplified the Christmas Spirit on that enchanted evening.
(The song itself was first performed in 1951 when Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell sang it in the Christmas movie, "The Lemon Drop Kid." Over the years it was a mainstay of multiple Bob Hope Christmas Specials.)"
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That's cool.
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That looks nice !!!
I spent a lot of time at Ft. Sam during the 80's. I loved San Antonio, the river walk and of course the Alamo.
The one thing that made me laugh, at night if you stood at the right spot across from the Alamo a "Motel" sign would light up and appear to on the "Alamo"
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Our mint did that? Finally, looks nice.
My son was stationed there after his 1st tour in Iraq, at the Army Hospital (He is still a medic in the Army). My wife and daughter are both nurses. It was quite sobering to go to the food court, where soldiers, men and women, who were sufficiently recovered from their wounds would hang out with friends and family.
I remember a woman, +/- 25, bouncing her baby on her lap, missing her leg below her knee, and soldiers working hard to eat junk food through the wires, brackets, etc. holding their faces together.
The only positive was listening to a colonel describing how high the % of soldiers who lived, believe it was in the high 90's, if the medic got to them while they were alive. It was a huge step upward from when I was in during the Vietnam war.
Has potential, but also has a long way to go before it is, in my opinion, ready to use. Scale in the quadrants is faulty, detail is missing, and aesthetically it lacks motion, power and artistic presence.
If this is what will be on a coin, Texans should be embarrassed.
I think the OP's point was this was the best of the final designs. If it is like the State Quarter program the design is just that and the coin will come later.
As someone who grew up there, I give it a thumbs up!
nice break from water & bird designs
That big write up, and I'm going to rain on your parade...
The coin is about the San Antonio Missions, of which the Alamo is technically a part of, but that's not what's on this coin.
The Alamo is not a National Site, as required by the ATB law. It is a Daughters of the Republic of Texas site.
What is a National site, are the other four remaining San Antonio Missions. (The San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.) Mission Concepción, Mission San José, Mission San Juan and Mission Espada. All four are working missions, complete with a (still used) Catholic Church. If you can find it, Mission San Francisco has a plaque somewhere near where the Church once stood, but it was razed long ago...
(I've been there a couple of times. It's a great place to look at what life was like before America was America... Link here:
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park )
they did a nice job designing that one.
It'll look best as a P puck
A "short cross" quarter. How 12th century. I like it.
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Pretty sure the water image has nothing to do with the River Walk which is Downtown SA. Most likely it represents the San Antonio River or even the aqueducts that the missions built to transport the water to them. They were all located close to the river.
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"Pretty sure the water image has nothing to do with the River Walk which is Downtown SA. Most likely it represents the San Antonio River or even the aqueducts that the missions built to transport the water to them. They were all located close to the river."
Rain, River, Aqueducts - it is all water! Well OK, perhaps with that added info, water under the bridge.
This was the best? What did the other designs look like?