Fun
Facts 1 - National Park State and Territory Quarters
August 12, 2010
The quarter is Cupro-Nickel Clad - 8.33% Ni
and 91.67% Cu.
It weighs 5.670
grams with a diameter of 0.955 inches
and a thickness of 1.75 millimeters. It
has a reeded edge
with 119 reeds and a circulation span of 25 years.
Production of the National Park
Quarters started in 2010
and will last eleven years with five
quarters issued each year in the order that the
parks entered the system. The Hot springs National
Park quarter was issued in 2010 During the ten years time the production of the Washington
Eagle Quarter will remain suspended. The quarters are
minted in Denver and Philadelphia.
hence, a complete set will be 100 quarters plus 12
territory quarters.
The new quarter program is an
extension of the state quarter program although limited in scope.
In 1998 - 1,867,400,000 Eagle
quarters were produced
In all over 35,000,000,000 state quarters were produced in ten years.
One of America's more successful coin collecting progams.
Virginia, the 10th state, lead in total production with 1,594,616,000 state quarters
Oklahoma, the 46th state, was last with 416,600,000 state quarters.
59,600,000 Hot Springs
Quarters minted in 2010
68,400,000 Yellowstone Quarters minted in 2010
70,000,000 Yosemite Quarters minted in 2010
At this rate 340,000,000
National Park Quarters will be produced in 1010.
The America the Beautiful Quarter
Program is not near as aggressive
It's initial quarter the Hot Springs Quarter only produced about 5% of its
counterpart Arkansas state quarter. As
a matter of fact the Hot Springs quarter mintage was
the lowest for a quarter since 1955. Nevertheless enjoy your collection and join us
in the
"America the Beautiful Quarters" program which in September will the
release
2-roll sets, 100 and 1000 coin mint bags of the Grand Canyon National Park
quarter.
It is estimated that over
140 million people collected
state quarters. Hope you had fun. Start you parks quarters today.
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