GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR STATE QUARTER UNVEILING

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A celebration to announce the minting and distribution of the Wyoming State Quarter will take place in Cheyenne this fall, Gov. Dave Freudenthal announced today.

An official unveiling and educational program about the quarter on the morning of September 14, 2007 will begin at the Cheyenne Civic Center at 10 a.m. The event will include presentations by Freudenthal and U.S. Mint Director Edmund C. Moy, among other dignitaries and special guests.

Among those expected to attend include the Wyoming Congressional delegation, the Wyoming State Coin Advisory Committee, state legislators, tribal leaders, city and county officials, officials from the University of Wyoming and the UW marching band.

Following the event at the Civic Center, a second, shorter ceremony will take place on the Capitol steps at 11:30 a.m. involving hundreds of school children who will be attending the Wyoming Book Festival. The biennial festival is scheduled for September 14 and 15 and will take place at locations across the Capitol Complex.

With the celebration, Wyoming will become the 44th state to celebrate the minting of an official state quarter. The date at which each state came into the union determined its order on the schedule of state quarter releases.

Oregon Trail Bank, headquartered in Guernsey, Wyo., has been designated as the official bank of record for the new state coin. The bank will be on hand at the ceremony to offer rolls of the new state quarter for purchase by those in attendance.