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Caption: "Land of Lincoln;" "21st state/century."
Release date: January 2, 2003
Entered Statehood: December 3, 1818
Mintage: 463,200,000
Reverse: Young Abraham Lincoln; farm scene; Chicago skyline; state outline; 21 stars, 11 on left edge and 10 on right
Engraver: Donna Weaver
Interesting fact: Three U.S. Presidents have been elected while they were living in Illinois — Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Barack Obama. However, the only US President actually born in Illinois was Ronald Reagan, who was born in Tampico, raised in Dixon, and attended college at Eureka. Lincoln is the only president buried in Illinois; he is interred at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield.