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Today the United States Mint unveiled the designs for the first five coins of the new America the Beautiful Quarters Program. A special ceremony was held at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Guest speakers included United States Mint Director Edmund Moy, Congressman Mike Castle, United States Treasurer Rosie Rios, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and other dignitaries. Director Moy said, "Through America the Beautiful Quarters coins, we will be transported to national parks, forests and wildlife refuges, part of a vast public land legacy belonging to all Americans-natural and cultural treasures protected for our recreation, relaxation, education, inspiration and transformation." From 2010 to 2021, the Mint will issue 56 circulating quarters with reverse designs emblematic of a national park of national site in each state, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories. Five different designs will be released each year in the order the sites were first established as a national park or site. This program follows the highly successful 50 State Quarters Program and the follow up District of Columbia and United States Territories Quarters Program. The first five coins, which will be issued throughout 2010 will feature Hot Springs National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, and Mount Hood National Forest. The line art drawings presented below showcase the final reverse designs selected for the 2010 America the Beautiful Quarters. Three to four candidate designs for each location had previously been reviewed by the Commission of Fine Arts and Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, but the final design selections have not been announced until today. See link for pics: http://news.coinupdate.com/america-...esigns-0203/ |
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Yay! Just what we needed. Another 11-year State Quarter series. But this time with more trees! And elk! [sarcasm] While the line art doesn't look half-bad, how much of that detail do they honestly think is going to be captured on a low-relief coin? Also, what about some of these drawings makes them unique to that location? Yosemite and Mt. Hood, for example. |
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Yuk! A busy design on a coin in which the Federal Reserve has made it public knowledge that they are not going to distribute specificaly to your bank.
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I must admit that I am not impressed. Don't know what I was hoping for but I'm not thrilled by what I see. Maybe it will look better in hand. But unless that's true, I'm going to stay away. I could buy three or four BU common Morgans for the price of the silver proof set every year.
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They'll look better in the giant 5 oz. silver versions, where you'll see every detail without a loupe....  |
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I hate them, I hate the Idea of them, I think some one needs to bind and gag the people that keep coming up with these multi-year series quarters.
All that being said I will be collecting them. They are historic. They will be very low mintage numbers. The percentage of errors with these very intricate designs will be higher than previous years. Lastly, They fit in-line with my collection goal of obtaining every coin ever minted in the United States.
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I hate to admit it, but I will be collecting them as well. When the State Quarter series started, I was only 10 years old. I collected them from circulation. With this quarter series I will be getting the mint sets, proof, and silver proof sets from the get-go, so I'll have the opportunity to collect a complete set of these in UC/Proof condition. |
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The 50 State Quarters program was so successful that they will now run the idea into the ground. |
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I will try to collect them from circulation as always (good luck with that, as they say these days). I will also continue to get the proof sets.
I rather like that they are making a uniform design with the date and legends. In my opinion, this should make them look more cohesive as a set.
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I may pick them out of vending change at work for my kids, but other than that, not looking forward to the next 11 years.  |
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I rather like that they are making a uniform design with the date and legends. In my opinion, this should make them look more cohesive as a set.
I really like that too. I feel like the 50 States quarters really ran this concept into the ground, but at the same time the designs on the America the Beautiful Quarters are more thought out than the 50 States coins. These have significantly less of a "designed by committee" vibe to them: Scenes, not bizarre collages. |
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I definitely agree with Anthropic. Some of the State Quarters *cough* Florida *choke* were not designed; "bizarre collage" is a perfect description of that one (hope the guy that came with the layout is not on here, lol). These designs are much more attractive and professional-looking (uniform, cohesive, more thought out are excellent adjectives to describe them) than most of the State Quarters. I guess Kansas will get left out, though, unless we can come up with something to enshrine before the program runs out (the Dalton Gang hideout in Meade? The big well in Greensburg? Where the huge meteorite fell in central Kansas? Bison wallows everywhere? All big holes now. Okay, I'll stop.). |
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I guess Kansas will get left out, though, unless we can come up with something to enshrine before the program runs out (the Dalton Gang hideout in Meade? The big well in Greensburg? Where the huge meteorite fell in central Kansas? Bison wallows everywhere? If the state does not have a National Park, a Designated Historical Site is substituted. ie Delaware. This is my understanding... |
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I guess Kansas will get left out, though, unless we can come up with something to enshrine before the program runs out (the Dalton Gang hideout in Meade? The big well in Greensburg? Where the huge meteorite fell in central Kansas? Bison wallows everywhere? Kansas will be released in 2020 and will depict the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. |
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United States
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Look at it this way.... Cashiers generally don't know coinage. With all the new designs of the State Quarters and Territory Quarters and soon to come America the Beautiful Quarter new designs... It will make it real easy to spend all of those useless, beat up Canadian Quarters I've been holding on to. |
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Knowing the banks won't be allowed to order these in the same way they could order the State / Territory quarters, I'm not too excited about them. I always went and bought a state/territory roll at my bank for face, but I don't care to pay a premium for these.
It's overkill anyway. Another decade of special quarters doesn't appeal to me.
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