2010 America The Beautiful 5 Oz. Yosemite MS69PL FS

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This auction is for a 2010 America the Beautiful 5 Oz. Bullion coin featuring Yosemite National Park.PCGS graded MS69PL FIRST STRIKES.This is going to be a very exclusive set as there were only 33,000 made this first year and the PL (Proof Like) grade is rare.In hand ready to ship. Coins pictured are the coins you will receive.I am putting a full set up. I will combine shipping. America the Beautiful Silver Coins The quarter is the most used and most visible American coin in everyday change. And beginning in 2010, all new 25-cent pieces have been duplicated to a much larger scale in silver pieces the United States Mint has named America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins ®. 2010 America the Beautiful Silver Bullion CoinsBetween 2010-2021, the United States Mint will produce 56 quarters and 56 silver coins with matching reverse or "tails side" designs that honor national parks and sites in each state, the District of Columbia and all five U.S. Territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. Learn about each five ounce silver coins by using the following map, or scroll below it for an overview of the bullion series. America the Beautiful 5 oz Silver Bullion Coins (Hover over your state or territory, U.S. Mint America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin Program 2010 is the inaugural year for the 12-year quarter dollar series the U.S. Mint has dubbed America the Beautiful Quarters ™ . These new commemoratives were authorized by America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008 , or Public Law 11-456, which also instructs the Mint to strike companion .999 fine silver coins that weigh 5 ounces and have an enormous 3 inch diameter .To say the coins are big is an understatement. Circulating quarters come in at a mere 5.670 grams (0.2 ounces), and are less than an inch in diameter — 0.955 inches to be exact.The bullion coins are exact duplicates of the quarter dollars issued, with the exception of the aforementioned size, their differing metallic composition and their edges. Standard quarters have 119 reeds on their edge. America the Beautiful Silver Coins are not reeded, but instead flat with incused edge lettering featuring the coin’s fineness and weight.Edges of the America the Beautiful Silver Coins T he size of the coins are quite distinct, and a first for the Mint. Silver coins have historically included a single ounce of the precious metal and, obviously, were smaller. As a comparison, these new silver pieces are nearly double the size of the American Silver Eagle which is 1.598 inches in diameter. They are twice that of early US coinage, like the Peace Silver Dollars and Morgan Silver Dollars. During the initial Mint production development testing, the size of the new coins created more than one technical issues that had to be resolved, and resulting caused the five-ounce coins to see a much later than planned 2010 release."Well, there isn’t a 5 ounce blank out there, so we had to get this custom made," United States Mint Director Ed Moy said during a public coin forum in February 2010 as reported by parent . "Then, because it was 3 inches in diameter, well we’ve got a 5 ounce piece of silver and we stretch it out to a 3 inch diameter, it’s paper thin."Congressional lawmakers apparently did not run the numbers on how thin the coins would have to be based on their other criteria."Congress mandated that we had to edge letter it. So when you edge letter a paper thin coin, you get crumples. We’ve been technologically struggling to make this coin happen," Moy added.The Mint had to order a new coining press from German firm of Gräbener Pressensysteme GmbH & Co. KG " to better handle the requirements of striking the new coins.America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins share the exact same obverse or heads side design as the circulatin... read more

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