Friday, November 9, 2007
Utah State Quarter
Utah Quarter Spikes Interest in Joining of the Rails
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - United States Mint Senior Official Gloria C. Eskridge, Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. and First Lady Mary Kaye Huntsman launched the Utah commemorative quarter-dollar today, while the Bonneville Elementary School 4th grade class serenaded the audience at Rio Grande Depot with "Iron Wheels a Rollin'--the Golden Spike Song." The Utah launch ceremony honored the 45th coin in the United States Mint's popular 50 State Quarters Program.
The reverse of the Utah quarter features two locomotives moving toward the golden spike that joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory, Utah, linking East and West regions of the United States. "Utah's quarter design perfectly embodies that historic day when our Nation, separated by a vast continent, was transformed into one country by the transcontinental railroad," said Mrs.Eskridge, the United States Mint's Associate Director for Sales and Marketing.
The coin also bears the inscriptions "Crossroads of the West," "Utah," and "1896," the year Utah was admitted into the Union.
Following the launch ceremony, members of the Golden Spike Park Rangers and Girl Scouts helped Mrs. Eskridge and Governor Huntsman hand out newly minted quarters to children in the crowd. On the eve of the launch, the United States Mint hosted a Coin Collectors Forum at the Discovery Gateway Museum in Salt Lake City, where attendees expressed their ideas on coin programs and coin design.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - United States Mint Senior Official Gloria C. Eskridge, Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. and First Lady Mary Kaye Huntsman launched the Utah commemorative quarter-dollar today, while the Bonneville Elementary School 4th grade class serenaded the audience at Rio Grande Depot with "Iron Wheels a Rollin'--the Golden Spike Song." The Utah launch ceremony honored the 45th coin in the United States Mint's popular 50 State Quarters Program.
The reverse of the Utah quarter features two locomotives moving toward the golden spike that joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory, Utah, linking East and West regions of the United States. "Utah's quarter design perfectly embodies that historic day when our Nation, separated by a vast continent, was transformed into one country by the transcontinental railroad," said Mrs.Eskridge, the United States Mint's Associate Director for Sales and Marketing.
The coin also bears the inscriptions "Crossroads of the West," "Utah," and "1896," the year Utah was admitted into the Union.
Following the launch ceremony, members of the Golden Spike Park Rangers and Girl Scouts helped Mrs. Eskridge and Governor Huntsman hand out newly minted quarters to children in the crowd. On the eve of the launch, the United States Mint hosted a Coin Collectors Forum at the Discovery Gateway Museum in Salt Lake City, where attendees expressed their ideas on coin programs and coin design.
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