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Release date of North Dakota State Quarter:
August 28,
2006.
The fourth commemorative quarter-dollar coin released in 2006 honors North
Dakota, and is the 39th coin in the United States Mint's 50 State Quarters®
Program. On November 2, 1889, North Dakota was admitted into the Union, becoming
our Nation's 39th state.
The North Dakota quarter depicts a pair of grazing
American bison in the foreground with a sunset view of the rugged buttes and
canyons that help define the State's Badlands region in the background. The
coin's design also bears the inscriptions "North Dakota" and "1889."
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"Badlands with Bison," features a pair of grazing
American bison in the foreground and a sunset view of the rugged buttes and
canyons that symbolize the State’s Badlands region.
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President Theodore Roosevelt founded the United States Forest Service and
signed the Antiquities Act in 1906, which was designed to preserve and protect
unspoiled places such as his beloved North Dakota Badlands, now known as
Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Herds of American Bison thundered across the
Badlands through the 1860s. The park is now home to more than 400 wild buffalo,
an animal once on the brink of extinction.
The North Dakota Quarter Design Selection Process was launched by Governor John
Hoeven on April 14, 2004, when the State's nine-member commission was announced.
Chaired by Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple, the commission invited North
Dakotans of all ages to submit narratives of 50 words or less. After reviewing
thousands of suggestions, the commission recommended three narratives for design
development: Agriculture, Landscape and Badlands. Candidate designs were
developed by the sculptor-engravers of the United States Mint and artists in the
United States Mint's Artistic Infusion Program and returned to North Dakota. On
June 3, 2005, Governor Hoeven recommended the "Badlands with Bison" design for
the North Dakota commemorative quarter-dollar.
The Department of the Treasury approved the design on July 20, 2005. One of the
two other design concepts considered during the final selection process was
"Agriculture," the predominant industry in the State. This design included an
aerial view of a modern farm with bountiful fields under an open sky. The other
finalist, "Landscape," featured migrating waterfowl and the sun breaking through
clouds over a vast, sweeping landscape scene.
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