The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 17, April 29, 2007, Article 27

ALASKA STATE QUARTER DESIGN SELECTED 

"The final design for the Alaska commemorative quarter was unveiled by 
Gov. Sarah Palin Monday. The governor's choice was the bear with a salmon 
and the North Star. Mark Vinsel, chair of the Alaska Commemorative Coin 
Commission, was with Palin for the unveiling ceremony in Anchorage. The 
design will be forwarded to the United States Mint, with the coin's 
release scheduled for fall 2008. 

"In the Homer News online poll about the quarter, the brown bear with 
a salmon also was the favorite quarter with 36 percent of those voting 
choosing that design. The Denali Park design with the musher, Big Dipper 
and North Star was a close second with 34 percent voting for it, followed 
by the polar bear with the midnight sun (25 percent). The least favorite 
design in the Homer News poll was the gold panner in Denali National Park, 
with only 5 percent of those voting saying that should be the state's 
quarter." 

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[Now this choice, I like. The brown bear with a salmon design is a 
great way to represent Alaska's great outdoors. It's uncluttered and 
should make a handsome coin.

With the decisions on the Hawaii and Alaska designs (scheduled for 2008 
release) the Fifty State Quarter series is coming to an end. I'm not 
looking forward to these references to the year 1959, when I was a year 
old. It means that when I was born, there weren't even fifty states in 
the Union, which makes me feel older than dirt. Don't tell my wife, who 
already teases me for being old(er). -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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