by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on July 27, 2010
The newest 2010 America the Beautiful Quarter™ is now available to the public. The U.S. Mint began selling the Yosemite National Park Quarter at noon Eastern Time on Monday, July 26. Just like previous new quarter releases, those who are interested can buy circulation quality 100-coin bags and two-roll sets.
2010 Yosemite National Park Quarter Bags and Rolls
The 100-coin bags come in two options, either from the Philadelphia or Denver Mint with the corresponding "P" or "D" mint mark on the quarters. The bags, made of canvas, denote the chosen mint, as well as "Yosemite, CA" and "$25." A premium of $10.95 over the bag’s face value exists, since each bag costs $35.95. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on July 10, 2010
Production figures for the Yellowstone National Park Quarter have been released by the United States Mint and while they indicate a gain over the first America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program strike, they still lag far behind most other recent mintages.
A total of 68.4 million of the circulating Yellowstone coins were produced, with 34.8 million coming from the US Mint’s facility in Denver and 33.6 million from the US Mint’s facility in Philadelphia.
In comparison, the inaugural America the Beautiful Quarter released earlier this year representing Hot Springs National Park came in at 59.6 million total — 29 million from Denver and 30.6 million from Philadelphia. In gross numbers, the Yellowstone National Park Quarter showed an improvement over the Hot Springs Quarter of 8.8 million coins, or a 14.8% increase. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on July 3, 2010
The latest United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters™ product sales show the natural decline in weekly levels for sets, bags and rolls. Natural, as it is common for product sales to be at their highest following a launch and then trend lower as the weeks pass.
Eventually, a general baseline is formed where weekly levels move just above or below with a few spikes here and there. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on June 30, 2010
The U.S. Mint is asking all to join them on a journey across the United States, according to a press release issued by the Mint which provides the final three ceremonial release dates and locations.
Entitled "See America for a Quarter," the Mint reminds collectors, and the public in general, that the new America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program features sites throughout the country ideal for a vacation destination. The Mint goes so far as to recommend visitors come during one of the US Mint’s release ceremonies for the quarters. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on June 10, 2010
The United States Mint has introduced a service for businesses and others to purchase new quarter-dollars in volume through the America the Beautiful Quarters Bulk Purchase™ Program.
The program offers the opportunity to buy a bulk bag containing 200,000 same-design quarters from U.S. Mint facilities at Denver or Philadelphia. The cost for the bag is the face value of the coins within, $50,000, plus a 3% processing fee which brings the total up to $51,500.
Why did the Mint create the program? It explains that: [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on June 8, 2010
The Yellowstone National Park Quarter was released into circulation last week beginning on Tuesday, June 1, 2010, via the Federal Reserve System. On that same date, the United States Mint started offering bags and two-roll sets of the new strikes direct to the public.
2010 Yellowstone National Park Quarter Bags and Two-Roll Set
Initial sales figures for those bags and rolls are now available from the U.S. Mint that track orders from their initial release day of Tuesday through to the following Sunday.
In those few days, a sizable number of Yellowstone strike bags and rolls were purchased, but a bit surprisingly… not as many as the previous America the Beautiful Quarters™ release – the Hot Springs National Park Quarter. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on June 3, 2010
Hosted within the park itself in Wyoming, the Yellowstone National Park Quarter was officially launched today at a ceremony attended by several dignitaries including United States Mint Director Ed Moy.
2010 Yellowstone National Park Quarter - Click to Enlarge
Beginning at 10:30 AM (Mountain Time) with a singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," Master of Ceremonies Park Public Affairs Officer Al Nash greeted all who came to the event despite the less than favorable weather.
In fact, the function was moved inside the Old Faithful Lodge Recreation Hall instead of outside the Old Faithful Inn as originally scheduled. With 45 degree weather and drizzle, no one in the crowd seemed to mind the change of venue.
Still just steps from the famous Old Faithful Geyser, Master of Ceremonies Nash introduced the first guest speaker, Gene Bryan, Wyoming Tourism Board Member and then comments were read from Wyoming’s congressional representatives. Up next, historian and author Paul Schullery was called upon to speak a few words about Yellowstone. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on May 27, 2010
At noon (Eastern Time) today, the United States Mint released the 2010 United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Silver Proof Set™.
2010 United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Silver Proof Set
The set is unique for several reasons – most notably for the fact that the coins in the set represent the first five strikes minted under the new America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program. The program only debuted this year and features quarter dollar reverse designs emblematic of selected sites of national interest found throughout the United States and its territories. [click to continue…]
by darrinlu on May 25, 2010
Production figures for the Hot Springs National Park Quarters were released today by the United States Mint. With these numbers, collectors and the public have many of their questions answered about the coins which mark the first issues of the America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program.
Launched on April 20, 2010 – the U.S. Mint actually started striking the coins back in March in order to build up enough inventory of the Hot Springs Quarter before they were due to be released into circulation. That month, a total of 42,400,000 quarters were struck, presumably all of the Hot Springs design – 19,000,000 of those struck at the Mint’s facility in Denver and 23,400,000 struck at the Mint’s facility in Philadelphia.
When the April production figures were released, it was widely assumed that the 35,000,000 quarter dollars struck that month were all the Hot Springs coin as well. However, with the preliminary totals for the first quarter of the America the Beautiful Program now available, we know that was not the case.
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by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on May 23, 2010
The United States Mint will launch in a ceremony the second coin in their America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program — Wyoming’s Yellowstone quarter, behind Yellowstone National Park’s Old Faithful Inn on June 3, 2010. The event will start at 10:30 AM Mountain Time.
Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (NPS photo of inn)
Following the ceremony, the public can get their hands on the new 25 cent piece. United States Mint Director Edmund Moy will circle the crowd looking for kids 18 years and under to hand out the new coins.Everyone else can stand in line to exchange paper money for $10 quarter rolls of the coins until they run out — usually there is an initial limit, but many times it is possible to pass through the line more than once. [click to continue…]
