For release: August 6, 2003

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Missouri Commemorative Quarters To Be Shipped August 11

ST. LOUIS, Mo. ? The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is scheduled to ship Missouri commemorative quarters to depository institutions in the St. Louis area starting the week of August 11. Residents in other areas of Missouri should begin seeing the quarter at their financial institutions in the next several weeks.

The Missouri quarter depicts Lewis and Clark’s historic return to St. Louis down the Missouri River, with the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Gateway Arch) in the background. The inscription on the Missouri quarter reads: "Corps of Discovery 1804-2004." Missouri became the 24th state admitted into the Union on Aug. 10, 1821, as a part of the Missouri Compromise.

With branches in Little Rock, Louisville and Memphis, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis serves the Eighth Federal Reserve District, which includes all of Arkansas, eastern Missouri, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, western Kentucky, western Tennessee and northern Mississippi. The St. Louis Fed is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., comprise the Federal Reserve System. As the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve System formulates U.S. monetary policy, regulates state-chartered member banks and bank holding companies, and provides payment services to financial institutions and the U.S. government.

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