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Caption: "Gateway to Freedom"
Release date: January 2, 2001
Entered Statehood: July 26, 1788
Mintage: 1,275,040,000
Reverse: Statue of Liberty, eleven stars, state outline with line tracing Hudson River and Erie Canal
Engraver: Alfred Maletsky
Interesting fact: New York has many state parks and two major forest preserves. Adirondack Park, roughly the size of the state of Vermont and the largest state park in the United States, was established in 1892 and given state constitutional protection in 1894.