Owner Comments:
Caption: "John Muir," "Yosemite Valley"
Release date: January 31, 2005
Entered Statehood: September 9, 1850
Mintage: 520,400,000
Reverse: John Muir, California Condor, Half Dome.
Engraver: Don Everhart
Interesting fact: California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas; it is also the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil.