I can still remember when I was a kid I was amazed with coins I get from different countries. My father gave me coins from the Philippines which featured some flowers, trees and animals. Accordingly it was their state symbols so I still keep them up to now. He also gave me a silver coin that came from the New Zealand and it has the Southern Alps of the Pacific which is a National Park in their country. Since then I wondered if the United States will ever feature its places on its coins. I just read from a website that the United States will mint coins showcasing the National Parks nationwide. The series will be called the America the Beautiful series and it will be an honor for every states as well as territories to be in the coins in the US. All 50 states and territories like the American Samoa will have its turn in the coin starting 2010 up to 2021.
America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act, which authorized the new series, also mandates that the US Mint strike “exact” silver bullion “duplicates” of each quarter, and thus was born the America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin Program.
The American the Beautiful silver coins specifications are not standard by any stretch of the imagination. Each will have a diameter of 3.0 inches, weigh 5.0 ounces, contain .999 fine silver, have incused into the edge the fineness and weight of the bullion coin, bear an inscription of the denomination of such coin, which shall be ‘quarter dollar and not be minted or issued by the United States Mint as so-called ‘fractional’ bullion coins or in any size other than the size described in paragraph.
Their diameters will be twice the size of early US silver dollars, like the Morgans, and nearly double that of today’s American Eagle Silver, which is 1.598 inches in diameter and includes one ounce of silver.
Just like any other countries the United States have so many beautiful places, putting these places in the coins will surely make the American proud of having these natural wonders. So let’s just wait for our places to be featured on the US coins for sure we will be proud of it.
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