America the Beautiful Quarters

The obverse of the America the Beautiful Quarters.

The America the Beautiful Quarters are a series of 25-cent pieces (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.

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 three different states will depict parks or sites that were previously portrayed on the state quarters (Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yosemite in California, and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota). Though they will depict the same sites, they bear new designs.^[3]

Beginning with the El Yunque (Puerto Rico) design in the America the Beautiful Quarters program, the U.S. Mint ^[4] began selling (at a premium) uncirculated 40-coin rolls and 100-coin bags of quarters with the San Francisco mint mark. These coins were not included in the 2012 uncirculated sets or the three-coin ATB quarter sets (which consisted of an uncirculated "P" and "D" and proof "S" specimen) and no "S" mint-marked quarters are being released into circulation, so that mintages will be determined solely by direct demand for the "S" mint-marked coins. As of January 2013 initial United States Mint sales figures indicated that between 1.3 million and 1.6 million of each 2012 design had been struck at the San Francisco mint, close to the announced mintage of 1.4 million for each design. Direct U.S. Mint sale of rolls and bags of uncirculated business strike coins continued with the 2013 American the Beautiful quarter issues, with actual quantities again to be determined by customer orders. Although the mintages of the uncirculated "S" quarters are considerably lower than that of the "P" and "D" mint-marked coins, none are being released into circulation so that the quantities minted will not be reduced by the attrition normally associated with circulating coins (similar to the situation with the Columbian half dollar minted in 1892 and 1893). Consequently, supplies of mint state specimens will remain readily available and the collector value of "S" mint uncirculated quarters probably will be very little more than that for the "P" and "D" uncirculated quarters.

They are collector versions of the America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin™ Program which debuted in December 10, 2010. They feature an uncirculated finish and contain a ‘P’ mintmark indicating they were struck at the US Mint’s facility in Philadelphia. The bullion coins were also struck in Philadelphia but contain no mintmark.

The United States Mint struck these coins late in 2010 with an extremely limited mintage of only 27,000. The Mint apparently had insufficient time to strike more before the end of the year owing to initial production difficulties with both America the Beautiful Five Ounce Coin series.

This forced the Mint to only release these Hot Springs Coins the following year on April 28, 2011. Demand was intense in the first hours of availability with collectors ordering 19,000 of them in the first nine hours. Within two weeks, the Mint indicated a sell-out of the limited mintage strikes. Each coin sold for $279.95.

Designs

Year	No.	Jurisdiction	Site	Design	Release date[5] (national site date)	Mintage[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
						Denver	Philadelphia	Total
2010	1	Arkansas	Hot Springs National Park		April 19, 2010 (April 20, 1832)	34,000,000	35,600,000	69,600,000
	2	Wyoming	Yellowstone National Park		June 1, 2010 (March 1, 1872)	34,800,000	33,600,000	68,400,000
	3	California	Yosemite National Park		July 26, 2010 (October 1, 1890)	34,800,000	35,200,000	70,000,000
	4	Arizona	Grand Canyon National Park		September 20, 2010 (February 20, 1893)	35,400,000	34,800,000	70,200,000
	5	Oregon	Mt. Hood National Forest		November 15, 2010 (September 28, 1893)	34,400,000	34,400,000	68,800,000
2011	6	Pennsylvania	Gettysburg National Military Park		January 24, 2011 (February 11, 1895)	30,400,000	30,800,000	61,200,000
	7	Montana	Glacier National Park		April 4, 2011 (February 22, 1897)	31,200,000	30,400,000	61,600,000
	8	Washington	Olympic National Park		June 13, 2011 (February 22, 1897)	30,600,000	30,400,000	61,000,000
	9	Mississippi	Vicksburg National Military Park		August 29, 2011 (February 21, 1899)	33,400,000	30,800,000	64,200,000
	10	Oklahoma	Chickasaw National Recreation Area		November 14, 2011 (July 1, 1902)	69,400,000	73,800,000	143,200,000
2012	11	Puerto Rico	El Yunque National Forest		January 23, 2012 (January 17, 1903)	25,000,000	25,800,000	50,800,000
	12	New Mexico	Chaco Culture National Historical Park		April 2, 2012 (March 11, 1907)	22,000,000	22,000,000	44,000,000
	13	Maine	Acadia National Park		June 11, 2012 (July 8, 1916)	21,606,000	24,800,000	46,406,000
	14	Hawaii	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park		August 27, 2012 (August 1, 1916)	78,600,000	46,200,000	124,800,000
	15	Alaska	Denali National Park and Preserve		November 5, 2012 (February 26, 1917)	166,600,000	135,400,000	302,000,000
2013	16	New Hampshire	White Mountain National Forest		January 28, 2013 (May 16, 1918)	107,600,000	68,800,000	176,400,000
	17	Ohio	Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial		April 1, 2013 (March 3, 1919)	131,600,000	107,800,000	239,400,000
	18	Nevada	Great Basin National Park		June 10, 2013 (January 24, 1922)	141,400,000	122,400,000	263,800,000
	19	Maryland	Fort McHenry		August 26, 2013 (March 3, 1925)	151,400,000	120,000,000	271,400,000
	20	South Dakota	Mount Rushmore		November 4, 2013 (March 3, 1925)	272,400,000	231,800,000	504,200,000
2014	21	Tennessee	Great Smoky Mountains National Park		January 27, 2014 (May 22, 1926)	99,400,000	73,200,000	172,600,000
	22	Virginia	Shenandoah National Park		March 31, 2014 (May 22, 1926)	197,800,000	112,800,000	310,600,000
	23	Utah	Arches National Park		June 9, 2014 (April 12, 1929)	251,400,000	214,200,000	465,600,000
	24	Colorado	Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve		August 25, 2014 (March 17, 1932)	171,800,000	159,600,000	331,400,000
	25	Florida	Everglades National Park		November 3, 2014 (May 30, 1934)	142,400,000	157,601,200	300,001,200
2015	26	Nebraska	Homestead National Monument of America		February 9, 2015 (March 19, 1936)	248,600,000	214,400,000	463,000,000
	27	Louisiana	Kisatchie National Forest		April 13, 2015 (June 3, 1936)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	28	North Carolina	Blue Ridge Parkway		June 22, 2015 (June 30, 1936)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	29	Delaware	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge		September 14, 2015 (June 22, 1937)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	30	New York	Saratoga National Historical Park		November 16, 2015 (June 1, 1938)	TBA	TBA	TBA
2016	31	Illinois	Shawnee National Forest	TBD	February 8, 2016 (September 6, 1939)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	32	Kentucky	Cumberland Gap National Historical Park	TBD	April 11, 2016 (June 11, 1940)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	33	West Virginia	Harpers Ferry National Historical Park	TBD	June 20, 2016 (June 30, 1944)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	34	North Dakota	Theodore Roosevelt National Park	TBD	September 12, 2016 (February 25, 1946)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	35	South Carolina	Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument)	TBD	November 14, 2016 (April 28, 1948)	TBA	TBA	TBA
2017	36	Iowa	Effigy Mounds National Monument	TBD	TBD 2017 (October 25. 1949)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	37	District of Columbia	Frederick Douglass National Historic Site	TBD	TBD 2017 (September 5, 1962)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	38	Missouri	Ozark National Scenic Riverways	TBD	TBD 2017 (August 27, 1964)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	39	New Jersey	Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty National Monument)	TBD	TBD 2017 (May 11, 1965)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	40	Indiana	George Rogers Clark National Historical Park	TBD	TBD 2017 (July 23, 1966)	TBA	TBA	TBA
2018	41	Michigan	Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore	TBD	TBD 2018 (October 15, 1966)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	42	Wisconsin	Apostle Islands National Lakeshore	TBD	TBD 2018 (September 26, 1970)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	43	Minnesota	Voyageurs National Park	TBD	TBD 2018 (January 8, 1971)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	44	Georgia	Cumberland Island National Seashore	TBD	TBD 2018 (October 23, 1972)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	45	Rhode Island	Block Island National Wildlife Refuge	TBD	TBD 2018 (April 12, 1973)	TBA	TBA	TBA
2019	46	Massachusetts	Lowell National Historical Park	TBD	TBD 2019 (June 5, 1978)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	47	Northern Mariana Islands	American Memorial Park	TBD	TBD 2019 (August 18, 1978)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	48	Guam	War in the Pacific National Historical Park	TBD	TBD 2019 (August 18, 1978)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	49	Texas	San Antonio Missions National Historical Park	TBD	TBD 2019 (November 10, 1978)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	50	Idaho	Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness	TBD	TBD 2019 (July 23, 1980)	TBA	TBA	TBA
2020	51	American Samoa	National Park of American Samoa	TBD	TBD 2020 (October 31, 1988)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	52	Connecticut	Weir Farm National Historic Site	TBD	TBD 2020 (October 31, 1990)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	53	U.S. Virgin Islands	Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve	TBD	TBD 2020 (February 24, 1992)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	54	Vermont	Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park	TBD	TBD 2020 (August 26, 1992)	TBA	TBA	TBA
	55	Kansas	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	TBD	TBD 2020 (November 12, 1996)	TBA	TBA	TBA
2021	56	Alabama	Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site	TBD	TBD 2021 (November 6, 1998)	TBA	TBA	TBA

Year map

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

See also

• 50 State Quarters
• District of Columbia and United States Territories Quarter Program
• Presidential $1 Coin Program
• Westward Journey Nickel Series

References

External links

Wikisource has original text related to this article: America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008

• H.R. 6184 (110th): America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008
• United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Programs
• America the Beautiful Quarters Official US Mint Site