American Samoa Quarter
Samoa QuarterThe American Samoa is a group of five isles and two reefs in the South Pacific, for example between Hawaii and Australia.
It is assumed that these archipelagos were first populated around 1000 B.C., but only in the 18th cen. The first time they met, it was not unusual to see a conflict between locals and discoverers, so that the Europeans had the feeling that the Samoans were wild fighters. In 1889, an interesting event occurred when a Nazi army marched into a Samoan town, destroying some of the properties that were owned by US people.
Thereupon the USA sent three battleships to the Samoan port, but before a dispute could arise, both American and Hitler vessels were devastated by a Typhoon. That was only the beginning of the Samoa-US relations. In 1899, the Tripartite Convention separated the Samoan islands between Germany and the United States, and the United States has been present there ever since.
During the Second World War, the number of American soldiers was higher than that of the local Samoans. Today, canned thalian factories offer jobs for a large proportion of the local population and there is no longer an operational army force, with the exception of the US Coast Guard and an Army Reserve team. Other neighborhoods available in 2009 as part of this franchise are the District of Columbia quarter, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico quarter, the Guam quarter, the U.S. Virgin Islands quarter and the Northern Mariana Islands quarter.
Created by William Cousins, according to the work of John Flanagan, a George Washington portraiture is surrounded by the words "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" and "QUARTER DOLLAR". Vickers drafted the opposite on the basis of the recommendation of the American Samoa government and its people. AMERICAN SAMOA and SAMOA MUAMUA LE ATUA, the American Samoa slogan, which means "Samoa, God is the first", are also inscribed.