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Caption: "Foundation in Education", "Grant Wood"
Release date: August 30, 2004
Entered Statehood: December 28, 1846
Mintage: 465,200,000
Reverse: Schoolhouse, teacher and students planting a tree.
Engraver: John Mercanti
Interesting fact: Iowa has been the birthplace of U.S. President Herbert Hoover, Vice President Henry A. Wallace, and two first ladies, Lou Henry Hoover and Mamie Eisenhower. Other national leaders who lived in Iowa include John L. Lewis, Harry Hopkins, Carrie Chapman Catt, Jefferson Davis, Black Hawk, and John Brown. Three Nobel Prize winners hail from Iowa: Norman Borlaug, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize; Alan J. Heeger, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; and Stanley B. Prusiner, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.