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The Idaho state commemorative quarter has a rather attractive portrait of a bird, supposed to be a peregrine falcon (it's hard to tell at that scale), the outline of the state, and the motto "Esto Perpetua," which I want to read as "Always this" but which the first web page I found about the quarter says translates as "May it be forever." That web page also tells me that one of the rejected designs had the words of the state song. There are two four-line verses, and an eight-line chorus; I can only guess that the engravers at the Mint, who are asked to mock up the designs the states submit, aren't allowed to say "Hey, I know you mean well, but this just can't be done in that little space." Not if they wanted it read, rather than to just say "Hey, we have an inane state song, like most of the other states." [Not all--Georgia and Oklahoma have songs people listen to.]
I also found a Web page hosting a petition urging that the design be changed, on the grounds that peregrine falcons aren't specifically Idahoan, that the Mountain Bluebird and the Syringa have been state symbols longer, and that non-Boiseans would feel alienated by a design that connected to the World Center for Birds of Prey.
I also found a Web page hosting a petition urging that the design be changed, on the grounds that peregrine falcons aren't specifically Idahoan, that the Mountain Bluebird and the Syringa have been state symbols longer, and that non-Boiseans would feel alienated by a design that connected to the World Center for Birds of Prey.