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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. United States Mint image. |
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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Dakota State Quarter
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