2015 (P) Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge (Delaware)

This 2015 Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge quarter is minted at the United States Mint at Philadelphia and has never been placed into circulation.

The fourth of five coins issued in 2015 for the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters® Program is the 2015 Bombay Hook Quarter. It is the twenty-ninth of fifty-six coins in the program.

Containing almost 16,000 acres, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, is located on Delaware Bay in Delaware. Four-fifths of the entire refuge is actually tidal salt marsh but the area also includes fresh water pools, swamps, and grasslands.

The Native Americans called the area Canaresse, which means "at the thickets," and later many knew it as Ruyge-Bosje, which meant "shaggy bushes." The current name is from the Dutch term "Bompies Hoeck," meaning "little tree point."

The refuge was established in 1937. It has served as a breeding ground for migrating birds and other wildlife for centuries. Today, an estimated 100,000 annual visitors come to the refuge.

Featured on the quarter’s reverse is a depiction of a great blue heron and a great egret within their native environment of the refuge’s tidal salt marsh. Inscriptions are BOMBAY HOOK, DELAWARE, 2015 and E PLURIBUS UNUM.