Wells Fargo Supports California State Quarter Launch
January 31 2005 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Wells Fargo Supports California State Quarter Launch SACRAMENTO,
Calif., Jan 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wells Fargo & Company
said today it will be the exclusive sponsor of the limited edition
California State Quarter. The commemorative coin will be sold in
bi-fold packets for $5 and will be available at its history museums
throughout California, the California State History Museum Store,
the State Capitol Museum Store and via the California State Library
Foundation website at http://www.cslfdn.org/ . Sale proceeds will
go to the California State History Museum. The California State
Quarter is being launched at the California State History Museum,
located in Sacramento. It is the first state quarter to be released
in 2005 as part of the United States Mint's 50 State Quarters
program that began in 1999. The bi-fold packets will not be sold at
Wells Fargo retail locations. "As California's oldest and largest
financial institution, Wells Fargo shares more than one hundred and
fifty years of history with the State of California," said Laura
Schulte, regional president for the California, Border and Nevada
Region. "From the early days of statehood when Wells Fargo
stagecoaches transported money and goods among the people and
businesses of California to the present, as we continue to serve
the citizens and communities of this great state. We are pleased to
offer the California State Quarter at Wells Fargo history museums
to support the California State History Museum and its mission of
preserving the history of California." Nicknamed the "Golden
State," California's quarter depicts naturalist and conservationist
John Muir admiring Yosemite Valley's monolithic granite headwall
known as "Half Dome" and also contains a soaring California condor.
The coin bears the inscriptions "California," "John Muir,"
"Yosemite Valley" and "1850." Wells Fargo & Company is a
diversified financial services company with $428 billion in assets,
providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer
finance to more than 23 million customers from more than 6,000
stores and the internet (wellsfargo.com) across North America and
elsewhere internationally. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is the only
"Aaa"- rated bank in the United States. DATASOURCE: Wells Fargo
& Company CONTACT: Julie Campbell of Wells Fargo & Company,
+1-916-440-4588, or Web site: http://www.wellsfargo.com/
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