Riders will be credited $1.00 after inserting the token into a bus fare box or train station ticket vending machine. When patrons visit Center City businesses participating in the Park Center City program, they receive a $1 Charlotte Coin that is accepted in parking meters and at participating parking lots and garages.Ĭitizens can use Park It tokens on CATS buses and the LYNX Blue Line. The Charlotte Coin makes it more convenient and less expensive to visit Charlotte's Center City. Park It introduced the first Charlotte Coin in January 1999 as the validation tool for the Park Center City program.
To celebrate the 110th anniversary of this event, the Park It Onstreet Parking Program featured the Charlotte Trolley on the 2001 Charlotte Coin. On May 18, 1891, Charlotte's first electric streetcar departed from Independence Square at the intersection of Trade and Tryon streets. For a list of CATS and LYNX fares, please visit The special collector's edition of the 2000 Charlotte Coin in a commemorative gift casing is sold out and no longer available for purchase. Citizens will then be required to pay the difference to complete the fare and gain access to the service. Queen Charlotte is the great-great-great-great grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's current monarch.Ĭitizens can use Park It tokens on CATS buses and the LYNX Blue Line. Even though the residents disagreed with British laws, they hoped to win favor with King George III by naming the town for his wife Queen Charlotte. On November 7, 1768, "Charlotte Town" was incorporated. Mecklenburg County was named in honor of Queen Charlotte's homeland, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany. What better way to celebrate the new millennium than featuring the bust of Queen Charlotte Sophia, for whom the city was named, on the Year 2000 Charlotte Coin?Ĭharlotte Sophia (1744-1818) was the wife of King George III of England. The special collector's edition of the 1999 Charlotte Coin in a commemorative gift casing is sold out and no longer available for purchase. Penny Ross and Carl Okugo both were awarded honorable mention scholarships of $100. The runner-up design was created by Laura Sparks, who received a $300 scholarship. Susan Brown, was presented with a $500 scholarship and the honor of having her hand-drawn design of Charlotte's skyline minted on the 1999 Charlotte Coin. The competition was open to all Central Piedmont Community College graphic arts students. The Charlotte Department of Transportation and Park It sponsored a competition to design the 1999 Charlotte Coin. Coins were minted in Charlotte until North Carolina seceded from the Union on May 21, 1861, and the Confederacy seized the Mint. Branch Mint was established in 1838 and produced limited issues of $1, $2.50 and $5 gold coins bearing a C mint mark to identify their origin. Coins minted in Charlotte are among the world's most valuable. The 1999 Charlotte Coin commemorates Charlotte's history of minting gold coins. The Park It Onstreet Parking Program introduced the first Charlotte Coin in January 1999 as the validation tool for the new Park Center City program.
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