New Quarter Coming Next Week
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Some Arkansas school children will be the
first to hold -- and spend -- the newly minted state quarter.
The quarters will be distributed to more than two thousand
children on October 28th when the coin is officially introduced at
Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro.
The children are from schools that have registered to attend in
advance.
A daylong series of events is planed at the park and in the city
beginning with morning performances by the Murfreesboro High School
band and ending with a fireworks display.
Governor Huckabee and Henrietta Holsman Fore, director of the
US Mint, will officially launch the quarter into circulation at
the park.
Park officials say the event will be standing room only and that
school groups from as far away as West Memphis have registered to
attend.
The Arkansas quarter will be the 25th state quarter in
circulation.
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Murfreesboro was chosen to host the Arkansas quarter ceremony
because a diamond is featured prominently in the quarter`s design.
The quarter also features a duck, pine trees and a rice plant.
Dortha Scott of Mount Ida sketched the winning design, which was
selected from nine thousand,320 contest entries.
