Idaho Quarter Ceremony Attracts Cabinet Secretaries, United States Mint Director to H

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http://www.usmint.gov/images/pressroom/prIdahoQuarter.jpg Boise, Idaho - For the first time in the history of the 50 State Quarters® Program, two Cabinet Secretaries joined the Director of the United States Mint today to celebrate a state quarter. The Idaho commemorative quarter-dollar, featuring a peregrine falcon design, was praised by Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, and Director of the United States Mint Ed Moy. State Treasurer Ron G. Crane represented the state of Idaho at the event at the Boise Depot in a ceremony that also featured Peregrine Fund President J. Peter Jenny, "Cowboy Rudy" Gonzales and KTVB-TV weatherman Larry Gebert.

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