2010 Silver Proof Set Features Silver Park Quarters
The latest collector offering from the United States Mint is the 14-coin 2010 Silver Proof Set. It launched Thursday, August 26, into a market place that also includes the 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters™ Silver Proof Set. The price of each set is $56.95 and $32.95 respectively.
What makes the U.S. Mint 2010 Silver Proof Set different than the quarters-only silver set is the additional proof coins, including the silver versions of the 2010 Kennedy Half Dollar and the 2010 Roosevelt Dime. The only way to acquire these two coins in silver is from the set. Read more
2010 National Park Silver Bullion Coins
The United States Mint expects that it will begin producing 2010 National Park and Site Silver Bullion Coins later this fall. The U.S. Mint had never announced launch dates for each coin, but earlier in the year expectations were more in line with a late summer release for the first issue, with the others staggered later.
2010 National Park Silver Coins Feature the Same Designs as the 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters
The five silver pieces for 2010 are part of the America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin™ Program, which goes hand-in-hand with America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program that honors national parks and other national sites throughout the U.S. and its territories. In fact, both sets of 2010 coins share the same obverse and reverse designs. Read more
Yosemite National Park Quarter Mintages
Last week the United States Mint published its production figures for the recently released Yosemite National Park Quarter. It is the third coin in the new America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program.
According to the figures, 70,000,000 Yosemite quarters were struck. The number that came from the Denver facility exactly matched that of the Yellowstone coins at 34,800,000. The remaining 35,200,000 were minted at the plant in Philadelphia.
The numbers are still considered “preliminary production figures only” by the U.S. Mint, since official mintages are not expected until January 2011. Still, they provide a means for easy comparison with prior quarters. Read more
California’s 2010 Yosemite National Park Quarters Released
The third coin released under the new America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program, the Yosemite National Park Quarter, was launched by the United States Mint and the National Park Service on Thursday, July 29.
2010 Yosemite National Park Quarters Officially Released in Ceremony. From left to right: Yosemite National Park Superintendent Don Neubacher, Chairman of the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors Kevin Cann, Historian Tom Bopp, U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy.
Over a thousand people attended the ceremony at the park’s Valley Visitor’s Center, located in Yosemite Village Loop, Yosemite, California. They were some of the first to see the new coin showcasing the park’s "El Capitan," the largest granite monolith in the world, on the reverse (tails side) of the new strike. Read more