America the Beautiful Quarters

The America the Beautiful Quarters are a series of quarters issued by the United States Mint from 2010 until at least 2021. The series may be extended at the option of the Secretary of the Treasury, potentially extending the series to 2033. The obverse of all the coins will depict George Washington in a restored version of the original portrait used for the 1932 Washington Quarter.[1] There will be five new reverse designs each year (one in 2021) each depicting a national park or national site (one from each state, the federal district, and each territory). The program is authorized by the America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008.

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Coin details

Quarters will be issued depicting designs of national parks and sites in the order of which that park or site was deemed a national site.[2] The quarters from four different states will depict parks or sites that were previously portrayed on the state quarters (Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yosemite in California, White Mountains in New Hampshire, and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota). Though they will depict the same sites, they must bear new designs.[3]

# Jurisdiction Site Design Release date Denver Mintage Philadelphia Mintage Total Mintage
1 Arkansas Hot Springs National Park April 19, 2010 34,000,000 35,600,000 69,600,000
2 Wyoming Yellowstone National Park June 1, 2010 34,800,000 33,600,000 68,400,000
3 California Yosemite National Park July 26, 2010 34,800,000 35,200,000 70,000,000
4 Arizona Grand Canyon National Park September 20, 2010 35,400,000 34,800,000 70,200,000
5 Oregon Mt. Hood National Forest November 15, 2010 34,400,000 34,400,000 68,800,000
6 Pennsylvania Gettysburg National Military Park January 24, 2011 30,800,000 30,400,000 61,200,0001
7 Montana Glacier National Park April 4, 2011 31,200,000 30,400,000 61,600,0001
8 Washington Olympic National Park June 13, 2011 30,600,000 30,400,000 61,000,0001
9 Mississippi Vicksburg National Military Park August 29, 2011 33,400,000 30,800,000 64,200,0001
10 Oklahoma Chickasaw National Recreation Area November 14, 2011
11 Puerto Rico El Yunque National Forest 2012
12 New Mexico Chaco Culture National Historical Park 2012
13 Maine Acadia National Park 2012
14 Hawaii Hawaii Volcanoes National Park 2012
15 Alaska Denali National Park 2012
16 New Hampshire White Mountain National Forest 2013
17 Ohio Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial 2013
18 Nevada Great Basin National Park 2013
19 Maryland Fort McHenry National Monument and History Shrine 2013
20 South Dakota Mount Rushmore National Memorial 2013
21 Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains National Park 2014
22 Virginia Shenandoah National Park 2014
23 Utah Arches National Park 2014
24 Colorado Great Sand Dunes National Park 2014
25 Florida Everglades National Park 2014
26 Nebraska Homestead National Monument of America 2015
27 Louisiana Kisatchie National Forest 2015
28 North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway 2015
29 Delaware Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge 2015
30 New York Saratoga National Historical Park 2015
31 Illinois Shawnee National Forest 2016
32 Kentucky Cumberland Gap National Historical Park 2016
33 West Virginia Harpers Ferry National Historical Park 2016
34 North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt National Park 2016
35 South Carolina Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument) 2016
36 Iowa Effigy Mounds National Monument 2017
37 District of Columbia Frederick Douglass National Historic Site 2017
38 Missouri Ozark National Scenic Riverways 2017
39 New Jersey Ellis Island National Monument (Statue of Liberty) 2017
40 Indiana George Rogers Clark National Historical Park 2017
41 Michigan Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore 2018
42 Wisconsin Apostle Islands National Lakeshore 2018
43 Minnesota Voyageurs National Park 2018
44 Georgia Cumberland Island National Seashore 2018
45 Rhode Island Block Island National Wildlife Refuge 2018
46 Massachusetts Lowell National Historical Park 2019
47 Northern Mariana Islands American Memorial Park 2019
48 Guam War in the Pacific National Historical Park 2019
49 Texas San Antonio Missions National Historical Park 2019
50 Idaho Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness 2019
51 American Samoa National Park of American Samoa 2020
52 Connecticut Weir Farm National Historic Site 2020
53 U.S. Virgin Islands Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve 2020
54 Vermont Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park 2020
55 Kansas Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve 2020
56 Alabama Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site 2021

^1 Final mintage numbers will be released in January 2012.

Mintage Totals Source: US Mint[4][5]

Year map

The following map shows the years in which the selected National Park or site in each jurisdiction will be honored.

See also

References

  1. ^ "About the Program". usmint.gov. http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/NSQuartersProgram/. Retrieved 2010-07-28. 
  2. ^ US Mint
  3. ^ US Mint
  4. ^ "Mintage Totals – 2010". usmint.gov. http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/coin_production/?flash=yes&action=production_figures&atbYear=2010. Retrieved 2010-09-13. 
  5. ^ "Mintage Totals – 2011". usmint.gov. http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/coin_production/?flash=yes&action=production_figures&atbYear=2011. Retrieved 2011-10-13. 

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Preceded by
DC & US Territories Quarters Program		 America the Beautiful Quarters Program
(2010-2021)		 Succeeded by
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