National Parks Quarters

The United States Mint schedule for the 2011, America the Beautiful Quarters program is as follows: The schedule doesn't give specific dates but does state the month each of the first five quarters in the National Parks Series will be released.

2011 Schedule of US Mint Coin Release Dates:

2011 American Eagle Silver Proof Coins are to be released by July 6th, 2011.

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The National Parks Quarters series began in 2010 and will go for a minimum of eleven years. The series will consist of at least 56 quarters released at a rate of five per year with reverse designs featuring a National Park or National Site from each state, territory, and the District of Columbia.

The option to extend the America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program an additional eleven years exist if there is a large enough demand for the quarters to continue. I can easily see this happening with so many National Parks, Sites, National Forest, Battlefields and Monuments. It would be a shame to leave some of them out. Choosing only one National Park or National Monument from each state is extremely difficult.

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Here is the list, in order of release, of the Washington quarters and silver bullion coins to be released honoring America's Beautiful National Parks, Sites and Monuments:

2010	Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Yosemite National Park, California Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon
2011	Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania Glacier National Park, Montana Olympic National Park, Washington Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Oklahoma
2012	El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico Acadia National Park, Maine Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii Denali National Park, Alaska
2013	White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, Ohio Great Basin National Park, Nevada Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, Maryland Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
2014	Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee Shenandoah National Park, Virginia Arches National Park, Utah Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado Everglades National Park, Florida
2015	Homestead National Monument of America, Nebraska Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware Saratoga National Historical Park, New York
2016	Shawnee National Fores, Illinois Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Kentucky Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, West Virginia Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina
2017	Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washington DC Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri Ellis Island National Monument (the Statue of Liberty), New Jersey George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Indiana
2018	Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia Block Island National Wildlife Refuge, Rhode Island
2019	Lowell National Historical Park, Massachusetts American Memorial Park, Northern Mariana Islands War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Guam San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, Texas Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho
2020	National Park of American Samoa, American Samoa Weir Farm National Historic Site, Connecticut Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve, U.S. Virgin Islands Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Vermont Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas
2021	Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, Alabama

Are you one of the thousands that got hooked on coin collecting when the State Quarters came out in 1999? Wasn't it fun collecting quarters from each state? Did you get coins with each US Mint mark? Denver (D), Philadelphia (P) and San Francisco (S)? Did you collect just one quarter from each state or did you stock up with a roll from each state and each mint? Maybe you filled in a map or collected proof sets for each annual release.

Did you know that the 1999 Silver 9 coin proof set is now selling for over $250. on eBay? Keep a watch on these auctions and check the winning bid after the auction has ended. You will see that there are coin dealers and novice coin collectors making a nice profit on their quarter rolls and proof set. Do you own one or more of these proof sets? Bet you wish you did! Those that got in collecting the State quarters early are reaping the rewards of a wise investment.

I am personally a big fan of the National Park system. If you've never visited a National Park I highly recommend you do so. Watch the travel channel, order a video or get a book and figure out which of the beautiful places you would like to visit. I personally love the parks out west. So much too see, so little time.

Let's give credit where credit is due! On June 4, 2008, the bill H.R. 6184: America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008 was introduced by Rep. Michael Castle of Delaware.

The legislation was approved by the House of Representatives on July 9, 2008. It was later approved by the Senate on December 10, 2008. The bill was signed into law on December 23, 2008 by President Bush. After that point, it became Public Law No: 110-456

Coin Collecting Tips

If you are in it for fun, order your US Map or coin book and start entering your coins as they are released.

If you are a serious coin collector and investor and plan to profit early or in the future, ordering your coins through NationalParksQuarters.us makes it easy.

For serious collectors and investors, we recommend you order the maximum of 5 boxes of rolls of quarters from the US Mint. Each box contains one roll of quarters from the Denver mint and another roll of National Parks quarters from the Philadelphia mint. If you plan on reselling these boxes, KEEP THEM SEALED. You will turn a much larger profit on sealed boxes. Remember, you want rolls from the US Mint, not bank rolls.

Another thing to look for is early production dates on the box. The earlier a coin is struck at the US Mint, the better grade it will be. But, with that being said, the US Mint changes dies during the coin production process. Dies have a limited life span, so a coin struck with a new die in mid production can look as good as a coin at the beginning of the production process. Coins struck with a brand new die will have a cleaner, mirrored finish as compared to coins struck later in the process that will not be as pristine.

We also recommend you purchase the Clad and Silver Proof Sets. At least one of each. A couple more if you can afford it. Reselling individual proof sets or complete runs of a series can also fetch a nice profit.

Smart resellers hang on until the US Mint has SOLD OUT of an item, then the price jumps. Just keep an eye on eBay. Watch what an item SELLS for, not what an item is listed for sale for. A sealed box of quarters that are sold out at the mint will sell and make you a profit. Take care of your coins and coin boxes and they will take care of you.

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