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The Missouri State Quarter was released on August 4, 2003, as the 24th coin in the State Quarter Program. Missouri’s original Statehood date was August 10, 1821.
The reverse theme is “Corps of Discovery” and it highlights Louis and Clark’s return to St. Louis with the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch in the background.
I visited the Memorial Arch on June 3, 2006 and took this picture looking up to the peak of the Arch.
Statehood Date: August 10, 1821
State Capitol: Jefferson City
State Nickname: The Show-Me State
State Motto: Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto (The Welfare of the People Shall be the Supreme Law)
State Bird: Eastern Bluebird
State Tree: Flowering Dogwood
State Flower: White Hawthorn Blossom
State Insect: Western Honeybee
State Animals: Missouri Mule (mammal), Three-toed Box Turtle (reptile), American Bullfrog (amphibian)
State Fish: Channel Catfish