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Article: United States Mint Launches American Samoa Quarter in Pago Pago.
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- Telecommunications Weekly
- Article date:
- September 16, 2009
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The United States Mint celebrated the launching of the American Samoa commemorative quarter-dollar coin yesterday at the Samoana High School Gym in Pago Pago, the territory's capital city. United States Mint Deputy Director Andy Brunhart and American Samoa Governor Togiola T.A. Tulafono led the celebration of the fourth coin in the 2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories Quarters Program.
"This beautiful quarter-dollar coin honoring American Samoa's vibrant traditional culture and rugged beauty is a welcome addition to American coinage," Brunhart told the crowd.
The reverse (tails side) of the American Samoa quarter, sculpted by United States Mint ...