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Commemorative issue

Alaska - 49th State

Obverse

Lettering:
ALASKA
1959 1959
THE 49th STATE

Reverse

Lettering:
FAIRBANKS, "THE GOLDEN HEART" OF ALASKA
GOOD FOR
$1.00 IN TRADE
ALL YEAR DURING
'59 WHEN ALASKA BECAME '49'
AT ANY COOPERATIVE BUSINESS, OR
REDEEMABLE AT FACE VALUE AT THE
FAIRBANKS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
UNTIL 12 NOON, THURSDAY
DEC. 31, 1959
BIRTHDAY YEAR SOUVENIR MONEY

Edge

Smooth

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Alaska is a U.S. state situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent. Bordering the state to the east are the Canadian territory of Yukon and the Canadian province of British Columbia; to the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. To the west and south is the Pacific Ocean, with Russia (specifically, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Kamchatka Krai) farther west across the Bering Strait. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 4th least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's residents (estimated at 736,732 by the Census Bureau in 2014) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the oil, natural gas, and fishing industries, resources which it has in abundance. Tourism and military bases are also a significant part of the economy.

Although it had been occupied for over ten thousand years by indigenous peoples, from the 18th century onward, European powers considered the territory of Alaska ripe for exploitation and trade. The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The area went through several administrative changes before becoming organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
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