by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on May 22, 2010
June 1, 2010 is the date the United States Mint will release the Yellowstone National Park Quarter into circulation, the second quarter in the America the Beautiful Quarters series.
2010 Yellowstone National Park Quarter Bags and Two-Roll Set
It will take time to see mass amounts of the Yellowstone quarter in common pocket change, but for those who want them immediately, the U.S. Mint is selling 100-coin bags and two-roll sets directly to the public at a premium. When issued on the 1st at noon ET, the bags and rolls can be purchased online at http://www.usmint.gov/, or by phone toll free at 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468). [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on May 20, 2010
The opening sales figures for the 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set have been issued by the United States Mint.
The debuting numbers demonstrate respectable collector support for the four proof national park quarters and the one proof national forest quarter within it.
They were issued on May 13, 2010. The US Mint registered 75,558 orders from then through to the following Sunday, May 16, 2010.
They are not exactly outside the park home run numbers when compared to other annually produced Mint products. But then again, the standalone quarters sets have never had sales that could be closely compared to other sets that include all a year’s coin. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on May 14, 2010
The United States Mint today announced new products to its numismatic portfolio, adding three new America the Beautiful Quarters sets, bringing the annual total for quarter-only type sets to five.
The sets feature 25-cent pieces from the America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program, which will honor 56 different national parks and sites between 2010 – 2021 from every state, U.S. territory and the District of Columbia.
The products fill a hole many coin collectors will appreciate, as they add: [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on May 13, 2010
2010 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set
As announced on this site and for a quick update, the 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set was released today at noon ET by the United States Mint for $14.95.
The clad set includes the first collector issues of the America the Beautiful Quarters, an includes the following five coins:
- 2010-S Proof Hot Springs National Park Quarter
- 2010-S Proof Yellowstone National Park Quarter
- 2010-S Proof Yosemite National Park Quarter
- 2010-S Proof Grand Canyon National Park Quarter
- 2010-S Proof Mount Hood National Forest Site Quarter
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by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on May 10, 2010
The United States Mint on Wednesday, May 5, 2010, released April coin production figures.
Hot Springs National Park Quarter - Click to Enlarge
For many watchers of the monthly numbers, most interesting was the fact that the US Mint struck new nickels for the first time in 2010.
The economic downturn has resulted in a huge reduction in circulating coins. Jefferson nickels had not been produced since July 2009, and then only a small quantity of them.
Second on the interest factor scale was how many more America the Beautiful Quarters were minted. Mint numbers from March revealed that the first batch of Hot Springs National Park Quarters produced hit 42.4 million, with 19 million made at its facility in Denver and 23.4 million struck at its plant in Philadelphia. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on May 9, 2010
The United States Mint on Thursday officially announced that the release of the 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set will occur on May 13, 2010, at noon Eastern Time.
2010 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set
The news is not new in the sense that the US Mint has been preparing the release — along with the upcoming silver quarters proof set — for some time. Several days earlier it published the product pages for both sets, and released their images. (It has yet to provide proof images of each 2010 coin.) [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on May 3, 2010
The United States Mint is preparing to launch the only two sets of the year that feature quarters and no other coins.
U.S. Mint images of the 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof and Silver Set
The sets include the:
With their releases only weeks away, the US Mint has published their product pages online.
The annual clad set is scheduled to launch on May 13, 2010, and the silver set will follow almost two weeks later on May 20, 2010. Both will be available at 12:00 noon Eastern Time on their respective issue days. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on May 2, 2010
Bags and rolls of the Hot Springs National Park Quarter were placed on sale by the United States Mint on Monday, April 19, (see article) — the day before they were ceremonial launched at the park itself on its 178th anniversary.
2010 Hot Springs National Park Quarter Bags and Rolls
The debuting US Mint sales figures show that from Monday to Sunday the following Hot Spring quarter products were purchased:
| 100-coin bag (P) |
5,268 |
| 100-coin bag (D) |
4,915 |
| Two-Roll Set (80 coin) (P&D) |
25,983 |
They are much better than the debuting sales of the Northern Marinas, which started at 4,160; 4,069 and 18,817 for respective bags and two-roll sets. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on April 23, 2010
A crowd estimated at over 1,000 recently attended the US Mint’s official launch ceremony for the 2010 Hot Springs National Park Quarter which was hosted by the park itself.
Hot Springs National Park Quarter - Click to Enlarge
Just steps from the entrance to the Hot Springs National Park headquarters building, United States Mint Director Ed Moy was joined by National Park Service Midwest Regional Director Ernie Quintana and Hot Springs National Park Superintendent Josie Fernandez in releasing the new strike.
"This has always been a special place, its been a magical place, its been a place of hope and peace and beauty," US Mint Director Moy commented about the Hot Springs Park at the official release.
"That’s what we wanted to capture in the design of the first coin issued under the America the Beautiful Quarters Program from the United States Mint."
The Hot Springs Quarter serves as the debut piece for the new America the Beautiful Quarters Program which is set to contain fifty-six new quarter-dollars during its run through to 2021. Each coin will showcase a different site of national interest found within the country and could be a national park like the Hot Springs Quarter, or might be a national forest, national monument, national wildlife refuge, etc. [click to continue…]
by America the Beautiful Quarters Staff on April 22, 2010
Those wanting to purchase the inaugural United States Mint’s America the Beautiful Quarter may now do so. The U.S. Mint began selling the 2010 Hot Springs National Park Quarter directly to the public at Noon (Eastern) on Monday, April 19, 2010.
2010 Hot Springs National Park Quarter Bags and Rolls
The circulation quality quarters are available in either 100-coin bags or in two-roll sets, as first written about on this site more than a month ago.
The two-roll sets contain one roll of 40 coins that was struck at the Mint’s facility in Philadelphia, thus showing the ‘P’ mintmark, and one roll struck at the Mint’s facility in Denver (‘D’ mintmark). This totals 80 coins and sells for $32.95, or $12.95 over the face value of the strikes within the very first America the Beautiful Quarters’ product from the Mint. [click to continue…]
