Michigan Quarter

Michigan coin design ok'd

Governor approves state quarter

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Washington, DC — (10/01/03)-- The U.S. Mint says Governor Granholm has chosen the design for Michigan's quarter.

The design shows an outline of the state of Michigan surrounded by the Great Lakes.

The quarter features the words "Great Lakes State" on the right side and shows the date 1837, the year Michigan entered the union.

The governor submitted the design to the Mint yesterday.

The design came in fourth in a 2002 online poll of Michigan residents. Participants preferred designs showing an antique automobile, the Mackinac Bridge and other icons.

The U.S. treasury secretary has final say over the design.

Michigan will be the first state to have its quarter released next year.

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April 15, 2002

The Votes are In!

April 15, 2002

Governor John Engler today announced that 40,579 votes were cast at www.Michigan.gov, indicating preferences on the five designs chosen to represent Michigan on the state’s 2004 quarter. The five designs were chosen by the Michigan Quarter Commission, which pared down the finalists from a pool of more than 4,300 designs that were sent in by interested residents statewide.

"If the intense interest in this poll is any indication, the U.S. Mint has a tough job," said Governor Engler. "Since Michigan has so many great historical and natural attributes, it’s going to be very hard to settle on one final design."

Michigan’s five quarter design selections, which are now being forwarded to the U.S. Mint, and the votes they received are as follows:

14,333 votes Outline of the Great Lakes surrounded by various State symbols: lighthouse, Mackinac Bridge, antique automobile, canoe, white pine tree and the North Star.	10,141 votes Outline of the State of Michigan featuring the Mackinac Bridge and an antique automobile.		7,641 votes Outline of the Great Lakes featuring an antique automobile.
6,298 votes Outline of Michigan featuring the Great Lakes.		2,166 votes Outline of the Great Lakes featuring the Mackinac Bridge.

The motto "Great Lakes State" will appear on all five selections.

The Michigan Quarter Opinion Poll on www.Michigan.gov was a non-scientific popularity poll. The federal government has the ultimate authority over what the final design on Michigan’s quarter will look like.

The five quarter designs displayed on the web site were accepted by Governor Engler on April 3, 2002, and forwarded to the U.S. Mint to begin the federal approval process.

"I am confident that when this process is over, Michigan will be happy with our quarter," said Governor Engler. "The bottom line is that Michigan is the best state and Michigan will have the best quarter."

For more information on the Michigan Quarter design process, the Michigan Quarter Commission and more, click on www.Michigan.gov/hal.

Daniel Carr's designs

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April 22, 2002

Commemorative quarter
Engler lauds young coin designers

By Janet Sugameli / Special to The Detroit News

Todd McInturf / The Detroit News

The quarter Jordan Rose, 12, designed and entered into the Michigan commemorative coin-design contest features the state's shape with 26 stars.

STERLING HEIGHTS -- Jordan Rose, a student at DeKeyser Elementary School, sat down and reflected on symbols of Michigan before sitting down to draw the face of a potential new commemorative quarter.

Rose

   "I thought of the Model T and Mackinac Bridge, and I wanted to include the outline of Michigan because of its unique shape," said Rose, 12. He also included 26 stars -- Michigan was the 26th state to join the union.
   His ideas clicked. Rose was one of five finalists out of about 5,000 entries from the Michigan commemorative coin-design contest. Rose and the other finalists were honored recently in Lansing by Gov. John Engler.
   Parts of Rose's design were included in the five new designs submitted by Engler to the U.S. Treasury Department's Quarter Commission Committee. One of the five designs will then be chosen by the panel as the Michigan commemorative coin to be minted in 2004.
   Rose was honored by his school mates last week in an assembly where he displayed his original drawing, which was autographed by Engler.
   His art teacher, Patricia Kadlec, suggested her students take part in the contest back in January. She submitted 50 entries from fourth- through sixth-graders.
   "I thought this was a great project so I could integrate history and writing into the art room," Kadlec said. She told her students to illustrate the importance of Michigan through their free-hand pencil drawing.
   Students had to submit a paragraph describing their coin and why they chose certain elements in their drawings.
   Rose's mother, Julie Rose, said her son worked hard on the project.
   "I tell him that at 12 years old he could possibly leave his mark on the world to have a quarter with his design on it," she said.