2012-S ATB Quarter Chaco Culture Nat Historical Proof (Silver)

Coin Highlights:

• Comes in protective plastic packaging.
• Contains .17875 oz of Silver.
• Gem Proof condition.
• Obverse: Portrait of George Washington originally designed by John Flanagan, with the inscriptions of “United States of America,” "Liberty,” “In God We Trust” and “Quarter Dollar.”
• Reverse: Features a view to the west of two elevated kivas that are part of the Chetro Ketl Complex. Inscriptions are “Chaco Culture,” “New Mexico,” “2012” and “E Pluribus Unum.”

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Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico was the cultural epicenter of the ancient Pueblo peoples between 850 and 1150 A.D. Today, it is known for its "Great Houses,” or distinctive architecture which features many petroglyphs and pictographs, and kivas, or ceremonial structures. The Chacoan sites are a part of a larger network of Native Americans which included the Pueblo, Hopi and Navajo tribes. The canyon was the center of a system of communities linked across 40,000 square miles in the American southwest.

Chaco Canyon was first established as a national site on March 11, 1907. The reverse of this Silver coin illustrates two of the elevated kivas that are part of the Chetro Ketl Great House as well as the north walls of both the Chetro Ketl and the canyon.