Coin Details
Quarters will be issued depicting designs of national parks and sites in the order of which that park or site was deemed a national site. The quarters from three different states will depict parks or sites that were previously portrayed on the state quarters (Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yosemite in California, and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota). Though they will depict the same sites, they bear new designs.
Beginning with the El Yunque (Puerto Rico) design in the America the Beautiful Quarters program, the U.S. Mint began selling (at a premium) uncirculated 40-coin rolls and 100-coin bags of quarters with the San Francisco mint mark. These coins were not included in the 2012 uncirculated sets or the three-coin ATB quarter sets (which consisted of an uncirculated "P" and "D" and proof "S" specimen) and no "S" mint-marked quarters are being released into circulation, so that mintages will be determined solely by direct demand for the "S" mint-marked coins. As of January 2013 initial United States Mint sales figures indicated that between 1.3 million and 1.6 million of each 2012 design had been struck at the San Francisco mint, close to the announced mintage of 1.4 million for each design. Direct U.S. Mint sale of rolls and bags of uncirculated business strike coins continued with the 2013 American the Beautiful quarter issues, with actual quantities again to be determined by customer orders. Although the mintages of the uncirculated "S" quarters are considerably lower than that of the "P" and "D" mint-marked coins, none are being released into circulation so that the quantities minted will not be reduced by the attrition normally associated with circulating coins (similar to the situation with the Columbian half dollar minted in 1892 and 1893). Consequently, supplies of mint state specimens will remain readily available and the collector value of "S" mint uncirculated quarters probably will be very little more than that for the "P" and "D" uncirculated quarters.
| # | Jurisdiction | Site | Design | Release date | Denver Mintage | Philadelphia Mintage | Total Mintage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arkansas | Hot Springs National Park | April 19, 2010 | 34,000,000 | 35,600,000 | 69,600,000 | |
| 2 | Wyoming | Yellowstone National Park | June 1, 2010 | 34,800,000 | 33,600,000 | 68,400,000 | |
| 3 | California | Yosemite National Park | July 26, 2010 | 34,800,000 | 35,200,000 | 70,000,000 | |
| 4 | Arizona | Grand Canyon National Park | September 20, 2010 | 35,400,000 | 34,800,000 | 70,200,000 | |
| 5 | Oregon | Mt. Hood National Forest | November 15, 2010 | 34,400,000 | 34,400,000 | 68,800,000 | |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | Gettysburg National Military Park | January 24, 2011 | 30,800,000 | 30,400,000 | 61,200,000 | |
| 7 | Montana | Glacier National Park | April 4, 2011 | 31,200,000 | 30,400,000 | 61,600,000 | |
| 8 | Washington | Olympic National Park | June 13, 2011 | 30,600,000 | 30,400,000 | 61,000,000 | |
| 9 | Mississippi | Vicksburg National Military Park | August 29, 2011 | 33,400,000 | 30,800,000 | 64,200,000 | |
| 10 | Oklahoma | Chickasaw National Recreation Area | November 14, 2011 | 69,400,000 | 73,800,000 | 143,200,000 | |
| 11 | Puerto Rico | El Yunque National Forest | January 23, 2012 | 25,800,000 | 25,000,000 | 50,800,000 | |
| 12 | New Mexico | Chaco Culture National Historical Park | April 2, 2012 | 22,000,000 | 22,000,000 | 44,000,000 | |
| 13 | Maine | Acadia National Park | June 11, 2012 | 21,606,000 | 24,800,000 | 46,406,000 | |
| 14 | Hawaii | Hawaii Volcanoes National Park | August 27, 2012 | 78,600,000 | 46,200,000 | 124,800,000 | |
| 15 | Alaska | Denali National Park | November 5, 2012 | 166,600,000 | 135,400,000 | 302,000,000 | |
| 16 | New Hampshire | White Mountain National Forest | January 28, 2013 | 107,600,000 | 68,800,000 | 176,400,000 | |
| 17 | Ohio | Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial | April 1, 2013 | 131,600,000 | 107,800,000 | 239,400,000 | |
| 18 | Nevada | Great Basin National Park | June 10, 2013 | ||||
| 19 | Maryland | Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine | August 26, 2013 | ||||
| 20 | South Dakota | Mount Rushmore National Memorial | November 4, 2013 | ||||
| 21 | Tennessee | Great Smoky Mountains National Park | January 27, 2014 | ||||
| 22 | Virginia | Shenandoah National Park | April 7, 2014 | ||||
| 23 | Utah | Arches National Park | June 9, 2014 | ||||
| 24 | Colorado | Great Sand Dunes National Park | August 25, 2014 | ||||
| 25 | Florida | Everglades National Park | November 3, 2014 | ||||
| 26 | Nebraska | Homestead National Monument of America | 2015 | ||||
| 27 | Louisiana | Kisatchie National Forest | 2015 | ||||
| 28 | North Carolina | Blue Ridge Parkway | 2015 | ||||
| 29 | Delaware | Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge | 2015 | ||||
| 30 | New York | Saratoga National Historical Park | 2015 | ||||
| 31 | Illinois | Shawnee National Forest | 2016 | ||||
| 32 | Kentucky | Cumberland Gap National Historical Park | 2016 | ||||
| 33 | West Virginia | Harpers Ferry National Historical Park | 2016 | ||||
| 34 | North Dakota | Theodore Roosevelt National Park | 2016 | ||||
| 35 | South Carolina | Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument) | 2016 | ||||
| 36 | Iowa | Effigy Mounds National Monument | 2017 | ||||
| 37 | District of Columbia | Frederick Douglass National Historic Site | 2017 | ||||
| 38 | Missouri | Ozark National Scenic Riverways | 2017 | ||||
| 39 | New Jersey | Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty National Monument) | 2017 | ||||
| 40 | Indiana | George Rogers Clark National Historical Park | 2017 | ||||
| 41 | Michigan | Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore | 2018 | ||||
| 42 | Wisconsin | Apostle Islands National Lakeshore | 2018 | ||||
| 43 | Minnesota | Voyageurs National Park | 2018 | ||||
| 44 | Georgia | Cumberland Island National Seashore | 2018 | ||||
| 45 | Rhode Island | Block Island National Wildlife Refuge | 2018 | ||||
| 46 | Massachusetts | Lowell National Historical Park | 2019 | ||||
| 47 | Northern Mariana Islands | American Memorial Park | 2019 | ||||
| 48 | Guam | War in the Pacific National Historical Park | 2019 | ||||
| 49 | Texas | San Antonio Missions National Historical Park | 2019 | ||||
| 50 | Idaho | Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness | 2019 | ||||
| 51 | American Samoa | National Park of American Samoa | 2020 | ||||
| 52 | Connecticut | Weir Farm National Historic Site | 2020 | ||||
| 53 | U.S. Virgin Islands | Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve | 2020 | ||||
| 54 | Vermont | Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park | 2020 | ||||
| 55 | Kansas | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve | 2020 | ||||
| 56 | Alabama | Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site | 2021 |
^1 Final mintage numbers will be released in January 2012.
Mintage Totals Source: US Mint
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