Title	Ohio Quarter Design
Subject	Coins and money Commemorations United States Mint State symbols
Place	Ohio
Description	This submission features two designs. The first is titled Mother of Presidents and features the seven presidents associated with Ohio. They are, clockwise, Harrrison, Hayes, Taft, Harding, McKinley, Garfield and Grant. The second design shows an Iroquois Indian. Ohio is an Iroquois Indian word meaning "something great" and shows a Buckeye tree & or leaves. This design is by Mary Ogden Armstrong of Kirkland, Ohio. The front of the coin was to look like the other quarters. The reverse top reads Ohio 1803 and the bottom reads "Out of many, one". The design for the center of the coin was opened up to Ohioans to submit their design. Of the 7,000 designs received four were chosen by a vote of 40,000 people. The chosen designs were sent for the final decision. It had to be approved by Gov. Bob Taft, then sent to the United States Treasury Department for final approval.
Collection	Ohio commemorative Quarter Program Records
Source	State Archives Series 6527; 56,292, Folder 3
Format	Picture
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	AL08695.tif
Image Height	5047
Image Width	5047
File Size	95822168 Bytes
Date created	2011-08-06

Ohio Quarter Design

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