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I acquired this coin on 1/19/2007. Population 1 of 544 as of 1/2007.
The reverse features The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the great stone face. It is a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA that, when viewed from the correct angle, appeared to be the jagged profile of a face.
The profile has been New Hampshire's state emblem since 1945.
The formation was carved by glaciers approximately 10,000 years ago and was first discovered by a surveying team in 1805.
The Old Man was famous largely because of statesman Daniel Webster, a New Hampshire native, who once wrote: "Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men."