GREGORY COLLECTION
2006-S SILVER SOUTH DAKOTA
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Coin Details
Origin/Country: |
United States |
Design Description: |
QUARTER DOLLARS - STATES & TERRITORIES - PROOF |
Item Description: |
25C 2006 S SILVER SOUTH DAKOTA |
Full Grade: |
NGC PF 70 UC |
Owner: |
MAGREGORY |
Owner Comments:
Admitted into the Union on November 2, 1889, South Dakota became the Nation's 40th state.
The South Dakota quarter features an image of the State bird, a Chinese ring-necked pheasant, in flight above a depiction of the Mount Rushmore National Monument, featuring the faces of four American Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The design is bordered by heads of wheat. The coin's design also bears the inscriptions "South Dakota" and "1889."
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into Mount Rushmore, the 5,725-foot peak rising above Harney National Forest, in 1927. Creation of the "Shrine of Democracy" took 14 years and cost approximately $1 million, though it is now deemed priceless.