2011 Quarters Set Includes 90% Silver Proof National Park Quarters
The United States Mint on Friday, April 1, will make available the 2011 America the Beautiful Quarters Silver Proof Set for $41.95.
The sets contains 90% silver versions of this year’s National Park Quarters. These coins are struck in collector proof qualities and minted at the United States Mint facility in San Francisco. As such, each quarter bears an "S" mint mark. Read more
Glacier and Olympic National Park Quarter Launch Ceremonies Scheduled
The United States Mint has announced official launch ceremony details for the next two coins in the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program– the Glacier National Park Quarter honoring the site in Montana and the Olympic National Park Quarter honoring the site in Washington.
These two quarter are but two of the five scheduled to be released by the US Mint this year under the program which debuted just last year. The series features reverse designs emblematic of selected sites of national interest from around the United States and its territories. Coins in the program are scheduled for release at a rate of five per year until completed in 2021. Read more
2011 Quarters Proof Set Sales Debut
Coin collectors grabbed a substantial amount of newly released 2011 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Sets, according to sales figures released by the United States Mint this week.
The 2011 Quarters Proof Set sales debut was 53,944, although that was lower than last year’s issue which totaled 75,558 over the same amount of days. The debuting sales totals cover a period of time between their release on a Thursday to the following Sunday. In the case of the 2011 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set, it was released on March 17, 2011. The 2010-dated set launched on May 13, 2010. Read more
US Mint Hikes Quarters Silver Proof Set Prices
The United States Mint on Friday implemented price increases on three proof sets that include national site and national park quarters composed of 90 percent silver.
The US Mint raised their prices because silver has risen substantially in March, and it did not want to be in a position where the melt values of the coins within the sets exceeded what it was charging for them. The Mint increased the prices on two proof sets already released and on one it expects to offer at the end of this month. Read more
US Mint 2011 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set Release
Collectors anxious to get all five of the new 2011 quarters will have an opportunity on Thursday, March 17, at 12 noon Eastern Time.
The United States Mint is issuing the 2011 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set, which contains collectible proof versions of all five quarter-dollars minted for the year. They include the: Read more
Gettysburg National Military Park Quarter Mintage
The United States Mint released the sixth coin of their America the Beautiful Quarters® Program in late January 2011. So far, they produced a total of 61.2 million circulation strikes of the Gettysburg National Military Park Quarter.
That is a low number, but this is just a preliminary production figure, of course, since the numbers may change again before the final mintage is revealed early next year. Read more
Yosemite Quarter Three-Coin Set
The United States Mint on Thursday, March 3, 2011, released their America the Beautiful Quarters Three-Coin Set™ for Yosemite National Park. The coins in the Yosemite National Park Quarter Three-Coin Set are similar to the ones that went into circulation in July 2010, but they are instead struck for collectors and offered in three different qualities.
Yosemite National Park Quarter Three-Coin Set
Each set includes one uncirculated Yosemite Quarter from Philadelphia, one uncirculated Yosemite Quarter from Denver, and one proof Yosemite Quarter from San Francisco. Read more