December 1, 2011

On October 7, 2002, Governor Mike Huckabee announced that the design submitted for the new state quarter by Dortha Scott, who is shown here on the left, of Mount Ida (Montgomery County) was the winner of the statewide contest that had received 9,320 entries. Scott, who was awarded $1,000 for her design, was present when the quarter, the twenty-fifth in the series, was officially released at a ceremony in Murfreesboro (Pike County) on October 28, 2003. A total of 457,800,000 quarters were minted and released by the U.S. Mint.