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Some D.C. residents may have been disappointed to see Duke Ellington end up on the D.C. state quarter instead of Frederick Douglass, but they'll soon be put at ease. The United States Mint has announced that the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site will be featured on a special quarter of its own, the Examiner reports.

We may not yet be a state, but we've finally got our own commemorative quarter.

We had the scoop last week, but today the U.S. Mint confirmed that Duke Ellington will indeed grace the District's commemorative quarter set to hit the streets on January 26, 2009.

The District's commemorative quarter is set to hit the streets on January 26, and will bear the image of Duke Ellington, DCist has learned.

When an advisory committee to the U.S. Mint proposed that Benjamin Banneker grace the District's commemorative quarter set to be released next year, not many D.C. residents were too happy with the decision. But thanks to a timely intervention by D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, voting was opened to residents, leaving them with the choice of Banneker, Duke Ellington, or Frederick Douglass.

   

The city opened up online voting for residents to choose their preferred design for the official District of Columbia quarter at the end of last week. You can vote for your preference between the three proposed designs, which depict Frederick Douglass, Duke Ellington and Benjamin Banneker, at this web site, with voting open between now and June 18.

When we reported two days ago that an advisory committee to the U.S. Mint had recommended that Benjamin Banneker grace the District commemorative quarter, there was a predicted and understandable groan from many residents. But for D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the decision isn't final until District residents say it is.

   

Still wondering what's up with the D.C. quarter that's supposed to hit the streets in 2009? Wonder no more -- we may have a winner.

A few months after a controversy erupted over the design of the District's state quarter, the Post managed to get images of three new possible designs on Friday. According to Post reporter David Nakamura, the three designs -- Benjamin Banneker appears on one, Duke Ellington on another, and Frederick Douglass on the third -- will be officially released soon and subjected to public comment before a winner is chosen in time for a 2009 rollout.

Talk about speed.

Reacting just as quickly as the U.S. Mint did in shooting down the District's proposed designs for its own commemorative quarter, city officials are already floating new ideas for what will eventually grace the coin when it is minted in 2009.

Update II: It looks like we're the first outright rejection. According to the U.S. Mint, "There occasionally have been controversial proposals that would have been rejected; however, we invariably have been able to avoid the finality of a formal rejection through our deliberations with the state before it approved its narrative submissions. We want to promote the quality of the collaborative process with the District of Columbia and with the U.S. Territories by encouraging robust and frank discussions on their quarter design narratives. Releasing examples of the United States Mint’s predecisional consultations with the states would not be conducive to this process."

Proposing that the words "Taxation Without Representation" appear on a D.C. quarter slated to appear in 2009 was either a strong-willed statement of defiance or a worthless waste of an opportunity. It just depends who you ask.

Barring any unwelcome intrusions, sometime in 2009 the U.S. Mint could roll out an official D.C. quarter bearing the city's slogan, "Taxation Without Representation," to great fanfare. But considering that unwelcome intrusions are part and parcel of living in the District, we're not yet holding our breath.