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Issued Date: November 14, 2011
Subject: Chickasaw National Recreation Area
Description: The 2011 Oklahoma America the Beautiful quarter honors the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, featuring the Lincoln Bridge on the reverse side. Released as the 10th coin in the program, it highlights a historic limestone pedestrian bridge built in 1909 to mark the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
Key Details of the Oklahoma Quarter:
Reverse Design: Depicts the Lincoln Bridge within the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, surrounded by natural scenery.
Inscriptions: "CHICKASAW," "OKLAHOMA," "2011," and "E PLURIBUS UNUM".
Obverse Design: Standard portrait of George Washington by John Flanagan (1932), with inscriptions "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," "LIBERTY," "IN GOD WE TRUST," and "QUARTER DOLLAR".
Significance: The coin represents the area's history, as the site was one of the first locations where the Chickasaw people settled after their removal to Indian Territory in 1838, recognized for its natural, healing springs.
Subject: Chickasaw National Recreation Area
Description: The 2011 Oklahoma America the Beautiful quarter honors the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, featuring the Lincoln Bridge on the reverse side. Released as the 10th coin in the program, it highlights a historic limestone pedestrian bridge built in 1909 to mark the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
Key Details of the Oklahoma Quarter:
Reverse Design: Depicts the Lincoln Bridge within the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, surrounded by natural scenery.
Inscriptions: "CHICKASAW," "OKLAHOMA," "2011," and "E PLURIBUS UNUM".
Obverse Design: Standard portrait of George Washington by John Flanagan (1932), with inscriptions "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," "LIBERTY," "IN GOD WE TRUST," and "QUARTER DOLLAR".
Significance: The coin represents the area's history, as the site was one of the first locations where the Chickasaw people settled after their removal to Indian Territory in 1838, recognized for its natural, healing springs.