Owner Comments:
I acquired this coin on 2/28/2007.
Population 1 of 2560 as of 3/2007.
The coin features: Mount Rushmore, Ring-necked Pheasant and Wheat.
The State bird is Ring-necked Pheasant.
Mount Rushmore is located near Keystone, South Dakota. It is a monumental granite sculpture located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 150 years of the history of the United States of America with 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of former U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
The carving started in 1927 and ended in 1941. These presidents were selected because of their role in preserving the Republic and expanding its territory.
The state is named after the Lakota and Dakota (Sioux) American Indian tribes. South Dakota was admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889. (North Dakota was admitted on the same day.) South Dakota is probably best known as the location of Mount Rushmore.