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English: The Ohio quarter, the second quarter of 2002 and seventeenth in the series, honours the state's contribution to the history of aviation, depicting an early aircraft and an astronaut, superimposed as a group on the outline of the state. The design also includes the inscription "Birthplace of Aviation Pioneers."

The claim to this inscription is well justified -- the history making astronauts Neil Armstrong and John Glenn were both born in Ohio, as was Orville Wright, co-inventor of the airplane. Orville and his brother, Wilbur Wright, also built and tested one of their early aircraft, the 1905 Flyer III, in Ohio.

On May 1, 2000, Governor Bob Taft requested design concepts from Ohioans for the state's quarter. The Governor established an 11-member Ohio Commemorative Quarter Program Committee that requested ideas from all Ohioans and received 7,289 submissions. The Committee's six favorite candidates were posted on its website for vote. Some 40,000 votes later, the top four concepts were submitted to the Mint. These include state symbols, aviation and aerospace, birthplace of aviation and the spirit of invention.

From the United States Mint's candidate designs, Governor Taft selected the "Birthplace of Aviation Pioneers."
Date 2002 (coin issued)
Source Source: U.S. Mint
Originally uploaded to EN Wikipedia as en:File:OH winner.gif by Dhaluza 30 January 2007 ( log).
Author Credit: "Quarter-dollar coin image from the United States Mint."


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