America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins

2010 was the inaugural year for a new series of coins the likes of which have never before been produced by the United States Mint. Officially known as the America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin® Program, these strikes are colossal in comparison to all other U.S. Mint bullion products.

America the Beautiful Silver Coin Obverse

The obverse (heads side) of America the Beautiful Silver Coins feature the familiar George Washington portrait – the same image seen on the smaller circulating quarter dollars since 1932.

The complete program will include fifty-six coins in total throughout the 12 years of the series with each featuring a different reverse design emblematic of a site of national interest. Annually, five new coins are scheduled to appear in the series. Honored sites include locations such as White Mountain National Forest of New Hampshire, Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial of Ohio, Great Basin National Park of Nevada, Ft. McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine of Maryland and Mount Rushmore National Memorial of South Dakota. These five sites are included in the 2013 America the Beautiful Silver Coins.

All of these bullion coins are required by law to be struck from five ounces of .999 fine silver to a diameter of between 2.5 and three inches. Initial specifications required the series to be exactly three inches in diameter which the Mint has opted to keep as the standard. These specifications dwarf the Silver American Eagle, which is the only other silver bullion coin manufactured by the United States Mint that is intended for investors. In fact, the Silver Eagle only has a diameter of 1.598 inches and is composed of one ounce of silver, giving the America the Beautiful Silver Coins five times the content of the precious metal and nearly double the diameter. The US Mint’s release schedule for the coins is shown below:

Releases Dates and Sites for America the Beautiful Silver Coins

Honored State / Territory 2010 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins Release
Date
Arkansas Hot Springs 5 oz Silver Coin Dec 10, 2010
Wyoming Yellowstone 5 oz Silver Coin Dec 10, 2010
California Yosemite 5 oz Silver Coin Dec 10, 2010
Arizona Grand Canyon 5 oz Silver Coin Dec 10, 2010
Oregon Mount Hood 5 oz Silver Coins Dec 10, 2010
     
  2011 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins  
Pennsylvania Gettysburg 5 oz Silver Coin Apr 25, 2011
Montana Glacier 5 oz Silver Coin Apr 25, 2011
Washington Olympic 5 oz Silver Coin May 23, 2011
Mississippi Vicksburg 5 oz Silver Coin Jun 20, 2011
Oklahoma Chickasaw 5 oz Silver Coin Jul 18, 2011
     
  2012 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins  
Puerto Rico El Yunque 5 oz Silver Coin May 21, 2012
New Mexico Chaco Culture 5 oz Silver Coin Jun 25, 2012
Maine Acadia 5 oz Silver Coin July 30, 2012
Hawaii Hawaii Volcanoes 5 oz Silver Coin Sep 10, 2012
Alaska Denali 5 oz Silver Coin Oct 22, 2012
     
  2013 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins  
New Hampshire White Mountain 5 oz Silver Coin May 13, 2013
Ohio Perry’s Victory 5 oz Silver Coin June 3, 2013
Nevada Great Basin 5 oz Silver Coin June 24, 2013
Maryland Fort McHenry 5 oz Silver Coin Aug 26, 2013
South Dakota Mount Rushmore 5 oz Silver Coin Nov 4, 2013
     
  2014 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins  
Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains National Park Coin TBA 2014
Virginia Shenandoah National Park Coin TBA 2014
Utah Arches National Park Coin TBA 2014
Colorado Great Sand Dunes National Park Coin TBA 2014
Florida Everglades National Park Coin TBA 2014
     
  2015 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins  
Nebraska Homestead National Monument of America Bullion Coin TBA 2015
Louisiana Kisatchie National Forest Bullion Coin TBA 2015
North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway Park Bullion Coin TBA 2015
Delaware Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge Bullion Coin TBA 2015
New York Saratoga National Historical Park Bullion Coin TBA 2015
     
  2016 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins  
Illinois Shawnee National Forest Bullion Coin TBA 2016
Kentucky Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Bullion Coin TBA 2016
West Virginia Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Bullion Coin TBA 2016
North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt National Park Bullion Coin TBA 2016
South Carolina Fort Moultrie Bullion Coin TBA 2016
     
  2017 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins  
Iowa Effigy Mounds National Monument Coin TBA 2017
District of Columbia Frederick Douglass National Historic Coin TBA 2017
Missouri Ozark National Scenic Riverways Coin TBA 2017
New Jersey Ellis Island National Monument Coin TBA 2017
Indiana George Rogers Clark National Historical Park Coin TBA 2017
     
  2018 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins  
Michigan Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Coin TBA 2018
Wisconsin Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Coin TBA 2018
Minnesota Voyageurs National Park Coin TBA 2018
Georgia Cumberland Island National Seashore Coin TBA 2018
Rhode Island Block Island National Wildlife Refuge Coin TBA 2018
     
  2019 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins  
Massachusetts Lowell National Historical Park Coin TBA 2019
Northern Mariana Islands American Memorial Park Coin TBA 2019
Guam War in the Pacific National Historical Park Coin TBA 2019
Texas San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Coin TBA 2019
Idaho Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Coin TBA 2019
     
  2020 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins  
American Samoa National Park of American Samoa Coin TBA 2020
Connecticut Weir Farm National Historic Site Coin TBA 2020
U.S. Virgin Islands Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve Coin TBA 2020
Vermont Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park Coin TBA 2020
Kansas Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Coin TBA 2020
     
  2021 America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coin  
Alabama Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site Coin TBA

 

Obverse and reverse designs for all these silver coins will be exact duplicates of those found on the circulating America the Beautiful Quarters® Program, although they will feature enhanced details. Both series of coins were authorized by the America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008 and honor select sites of national interest from around the United States. One site was selected from each state, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories for a total of fifty-six locations.

A portrait of George Washington, as designed by John Flanagan, is found on the obverse of all the coins. This same portrait of the first President of the United States has been featured on the quarter dollar since 1932. It was slightly modified in 1999 for the release of the State Quarters Program, but has been returned to its original form for the debut of these strikes. Reverse designs will be emblematic of the honored site.

Since both the obverse and reverse of the silver bullion coins are duplicates of the quarter dollars, the Mint was initially required to edge incuse the weight and fineness of the strikes on the bullion pieces. That initial requirement has since been changed, but like the diameter, the Mint has opted to remain with the original specifications.

A total of five America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins will be released annually until the program is completed in 2021. The order in which the coins are released is dictated by the order in which the honored site came under the direct control of the federal government.

 

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