The New Girl Scout Silver Coin
For all of us that enjoy collecting American Silver coins not only for their beauty and value, but also for the rich historial connection to the United States there is much to celebrate about the recent bill that was signed by President Obama. On October 29, 2009, President Obama signed the Girl Scout USA Centennial Commemorative Coin Act during a ceremony at the White House that included girls from the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital.
The Girl Scout USA Centennial Commerative Coin Act was first introduced on January 21, 2009 by Representative Jack Kingston of Georgia to the House of Representatives, and was passed with more than 300 cosponsors on October 15, 2009. On October 19, 2009, Senator Susan Collins of Maine brought forth a companion bill to the Senate and it was passed by a unanimous vote. The bill will allow for the United States Mint to produce 350,000 silver coins. The Girl Scout Commemorative silver coins will be minted and sold in 2013. The design of the coin will be through a collaboration of the Secretary of Treasury, the Girls Scouts and the Commission of the Fine Arts. The bill calls for a design that is "emblematic of the centennial of Girl Scouts", and ten dollars from the sale of each coin will be given to the Girl Scouts to help support renovations at the Juliette Gordon Low birthplace in Savannah, Georgia. However, the face value, "2013", "Liberty", "United States of America" and "E Pluribus Unum" is required to be inscribed on the coin.
The 2013 distribution of the coins will help to celebrate the beginning of a new century for the Girls Scouts. While at the same time, acting as a symbol of the past 100 years of the Girl Scouts committment to building girls values of community service and leadership. The Girls Scouts was founded by Juliette Low who was born in Savannah, Georgia on October 31, 1860. On March 12, 1912, she organized the first meeting of the Girl Scouts in the United States. The Girl Scouts teach the values of friendship, leadership, character, service and patriotism. Over the years, Girl Scout membership grew in leaps and bounds, by the time that Low died at the age of 66 in 1927, there was nearly 140,000 Girl Scouts in the United States. Currently it is the largest association for women and girls in the United States in the area of voluteerism, with over 50 million women that have been Girl Scouts. Girls Scouts is also a worldwide organization with approximately 3.7 million girls and women actively involved today.
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