North Dakota
The "Peace Garden State," featuring bison roaming the wilderness and rugged badlands.
North Dakota is a state located on the northern Great Plains of the United States, and its nickname is “The Peace Garden State.” It is a quiet region where broad fields and nature stretch out. The North Dakota quarter, issued in 2006, is the 39th coin in the 50 State series.
The reverse of the coin depicts two American bison, with the rugged terrain called the badlands drawn behind them.
The bison is a representative animal that symbolizes the Great Plains of North America. Roaming the broad plains in herds, the bison is the first creature that comes to mind when thinking of this region’s nature. The badlands drawn behind them are a unique landscape of valleys and hills, worn down by wind and rain into rugged, uneven forms, showing North Dakota’s rough yet magnificent nature.
North Dakota became the 39th state of the United States on November 2, 1889. The bison and the landscape of the land depicted on the coin tell us that this land is a place that has lived alongside great nature for a long time.
Gazing at the bison on the coin, the scenery of the endlessly stretching northern Great Plains naturally comes to mind before your eyes.