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The New State Quarters:
America The Beautiful Quarters

Beginning in 2010 the United States Mint will begin releasing new state quarters honoring our nation's National Parks and other historic sites.

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The coins will be released at the rate of five designs per year and there will be 56 new designs in all - one for each of the fifty states of the United States plus Puerto Rico, District of Columbia, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and U.S. Virgin Islands.

These new state quarters will be released according to the order in which the honored site was first established as a national site.

The first year, 2010, America the Beautiful Quarters will honor:

Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas
Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming
Yosemite National Park in California
Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
Mt. Hood National Forest in Oregon.

The obverse or heads side of the national sites and national parks quarters will depict a portrait of George Washington contrived from a restored version of the 1932 design by John Flanagan that we are all familiar with.

Authorized by the America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008 (HR 6184), the series could potentially be extended to 2033 at the option of the Secretary of the Treasury.

Four of the new state quarters will depict sites that were also included on the Statehood Quarters, although the design, or image, will be brand new for the National Parks quarter series. These include:

Grand Canyon in Arizona
Yosemite in California
White Mountains in New Hampshire
Mount Rushmore in South Dakota

Also slated for release along with their America the Beautiful Quarter counterpart are Silver Bullion 5-Ounce Coins which will be exact duplicates of the new state quarters, except for size and metal content of course.

These collector and investor coins will be three inches in diameter and contain five ounces of .999 fine silver. These silver bullion coins will be available during the same year as their America the Beautiful quarter counterpart.

Below you will find the release schedule of the National Parks Quarters, along with the date the honored site was first established as a national site.

New State Quarters Release Schedule

Year	Jurisdiction	Historic Site	Date (m/d/yyyy)
2010	Arkansas	Hot Springs National Park	4/20/1832
	Wyoming	Yellowstone National Park	3/1/1872
	California	Yosemite National Park	10/1/1890
	Arizona	Grand Canyon National Park	2/20/1893
	Oregon	Mt. Hood National Forest	9/28/1893
2011	Pennsylvania	Gettysburg National Military Park	2/11/1895
	Montana	Glacier National Park	2/22/1897
	Washington	Olympic National Park	2/22/1897
	Mississippi	Vicksburg National Military Park	2/21/1899
	Oklahoma	Chickasaw National Recreation Area	7/1/1902
2012	Puerto Rico	El Yunque National Forest	1/17/1903
	New Mexico	Chaco Culture National Historical Park	3/11/1907
	Maine	Acadia National Park	7/8/1916
	Hawaii	Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	8/1/1916
	Alaska	Denali National Park	2/26/1917
2013	New Hampshire	White Mountain National Forest	5/16/1918
	Ohio	Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial	3/3/1919
	Nevada	Great Basin National Park	1/24/1922
	Maryland	Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	3/3/1925
	South Dakota	Mount Rushmore National Memorial	3/3/1925
2014	Tennessee	Great Smoky Mountains National Park	5/22/1926
	Virginia	Shenandoah National Park	5/22/1926
	Utah	Arches National Park	4/12/1929
	Colorado	Great Sand Dunes National Park	3/17/1932
	Florida	Everglades National Park	5/30/1934
2015	Nebraska	Homestead National Monument of America	3/19/1936
	Louisiana	Kisatchie National Forest	6/3/1936
	North Carolina	Blue Ridge Parkway	6/30/1936
	Delaware	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	6/22/1937
	New York	Saratoga National Historical Park	6/1/1938
2016	Illinois	Shawnee National Forest	9/6/1939
	Kentucky	Cumberland Gap National Historical Park	6/11/1940
	West Virginia	Harpers Ferry National Historical Park	6/30/1944
	North Dakota	Theodore Roosevelt National Park	2/25/1946
	South Carolina	Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument)	4/28/1948
2017	Iowa	Effigy Mounds National Monument	10/25/1949
	District of Columbia	Frederick Douglass National Historic Site	9/5/1962
	Missouri	Ozark National Scenic Riverways	8/27/1964
	New Jersey	Ellis Island National Monument (Statue of Liberty)	5/11/1965
	Indiana	George Rogers Clark National Historical Park	7/23/1966
2018	Michigan	Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore	10/15/1966
	Wisconsin	Apostle Islands National Lakeshore	9/26/1970
	Minnesota	Voyageurs National Park	1/8/1971
	Georgia	Cumberland Island National Seashore	10/23/1972
	Rhode Island	Block Island National Wildlife Refuge	4/12/1973
2019	Massachusetts	Lowell National Historical Park	6/5/1978
	Northern Mariana Islands	American Memorial Park	8/18/1978
	Guam	War in the Pacific National Historical Park	8/18/1978
	Texas	San Antonio Missions National Historical Park	11/10/1978
	Idaho	Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness	7/23/1980
2020	American Samoa	National Park of American Samoa	10/31/1988
	Connecticut	Weir Farm National Historic Site	10/31/1990
	U.S. Virgin Islands	Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve	2/24/1992
	Vermont	Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park	8/26/1992
	Kansas	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	11/12/1996
2021	Alabama	Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site	11/6/1998

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