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1/4 Dollar 'Washington Quarter' South Dakota - Silver Proof
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features the South Dakota State quarter design, depicting a Chinese ring-necked pheasant in full flight above a stylized rendering of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, showing the carved likenesses of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Stalks of wheat frame the central design on either side, referencing the state's agricultural heritage. The inscriptions SOUTH DAKOTA and 1889 — the year of statehood — appear at the top, while E PLURIBUS UNUM and the date 2006 are placed in the lower field. The designer's initials JM appear incuse within the design. |
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| Mint | S United States Mint of San Francisco, United States (1854-date) |
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The 50 State Quarters program, authorized by Congress in 1997, ran one new reverse design every ten weeks from 1999 through 2008. South Dakota's 2006 entry was the 40th issue in the sequence. San Francisco struck the silver proof versions exclusively, as it had for the entire program, having shed most of its circulating coinage responsibilities decades earlier to focus on collector issues.
Mount Rushmore's sculpting was funded partly through federal appropriations lobbied by South Dakota's congressional delegation and took fourteen years to complete, finishing in 1941 — the same year Gutzon Borglum died, leaving his son Lincoln to oversee the final blasting.