AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL 5oz SILVER SET

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2010 America the Beautiful 5 ounce Silver Quarters Complete set from CNT. This set includes the five, 5 ounce silver National Parks quarters issued in 2010. Please read payment details & pay at end of auction. Let me know form of payment to be used The US Mint only struck 33,000 of each of the 2010 America the Beautiful silver bullion coins and sold them in December. Naturally, demand was high and they sold out quickly. This year the US Mint is starting with 126,500 for each design and expects to be able to keep up with demand. "ALL COIN INFO IS FROM THE USMINT WEB SITE" Hot Springs The Hot Springs National Park quarter is the first of 2010 and the first overall in the America the Beautiful Quarters ® Program. Hot Springs National Park, destination of the Dunbar-Hunter Expedition sent by President Thomas Jefferson in 1804, features prehistoric American Indian quarries. A bustling town grew up around the hot springs to provide health services. Hot Springs was first established as a national site on April 20, 1832 (4 Stat. 505), to conserve the water from the 47 springs that emerge from Hot Springs Mountain and to ensure that water was made available for drinking and therapy. The quarter's reverse (tails side) image depicts the façade of the Hot Springs National Park headquarters building with a thermal fountain in the foreground. The headquarters was built in the Spanish colonial revival style and completed in 1936. The National Park Service emblem is featured to the right of the door. Inscriptions are HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, 2010 and E PLURIBUS UNUM. Design candidates were developed in consultation with representatives of Hot Springs National Park. Yellowstone The Yellowstone National Park quarter is the second of 2010 and the second overall in the America the Beautiful Quarters ® Program. First established as a national site on March 1, 1872 (17 Stat. 32), Yellowstone National Park is home to a large variety of wildlife, including grizzly bears, wolves, bison and elk. Preserved within the park are Old Faithful and a collection of the world's most extraordinary geysers. The reverse image features the Old Faithful geyser with a mature bull bison in the foreground. Inscriptions are YELLOWSTONE, WYOMING, 2010 and E PLURIBUS UNUM. Design candidates were developed in consultation with representatives of Yellowstone National Park Yosemite The Yosemite National Park quarter is the third of 2010 and the third overall in the America the Beautiful Quarters ® Program. Yosemite National Park, one of the first wilderness parks in the United States, is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles are deep valleys, grand meadows and ancient giant sequoias. It was first established as a national site on October 1, 1890 (26 Stat. 650). The reverse image depicts the iconic El Capitan, which rises more than 3,000 feet above the valley floor and is the largest monolith of granite in the world. Inscriptions are YOSEMITE, CALIFORNIA, 2010 and E PLURIBUS UNUM. Design candidates were developed in consultation with representatives of Yosemite National Park. Grand Canyon The Grand Canyon National Park quarter is the fourth of 2010 and the fourth overall in the America the Beautiful Quarters ® Program. A powerful and inspiring landscape, the Grand Canyon overwhelms the senses through its immense size of the 277 river miles long, up to 18 miles wide and a mile deep. The Grand Canyon was first established as a national site on February 20, 1893 (27 Stat. 469). The reverse image features a view of the granaries above the Nankoweap Delta in Marble Canyon near the Colorado River. (Marble Canyon is the northernmost section of the Grand Canyon.) These granaries were used for storing food and seeds between 1050 and 1150 A.D. Inscriptions are GRAND CANYON, ARIZONA, 2010 and E PLURIBUS UNUM. Design candidates were developed in consultation with representatives of Grand Ca... read more

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