2008 Hawaii State Quarter

Characteristics

Obverse Description: Highlights a bust of President George Washington.

Reverse Description: The reverse of Hawaii’s quarter features Hawaiian monarch King Kamehameha I stretching his hand toward the eight major Hawaiian Islands.

Obverse Inscriptions

• UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• LIBERTY
• IN GOD WE TRUST
• QUARTER DOLLAR

Reverse Inscriptions

• UA MAU KE EA O KA ‘AINA I KA PONO (“The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness”)
• HAWAII
• 1959