America the Beautiful Quarters 2010-2021

Coin Series

About This Series

Building on the State Quarters' success, this program honored 56 national sites (national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, historic sites and others) with five new reverse designs a year, and one in 2021. Authorized by the 2008 Act, each reverse depicts a significant landscape or landmark associated with the featured site across all 50 states, D.C., and five territories. The obverse retained John Flanagan's Washington portrait throughout. Struck in copper-nickel clad at Philadelphia (P) and Denver (D) at 24.26 mm and 5.67 grams, with San Francisco (S) proofs in clad and in silver (.900 fine through 2018, .999 fine from 2019), the program also spawned the companion 5-ounce silver bullion quarter series. From 2012 San Francisco also struck uncirculated coins, sold only in rolls and bags. Notable designs include Yosemite (2010), Gettysburg (2011), and Grand Canyon (2010), concluding with Tuskegee Airmen (2021). In 2019 and 2020 the West Point Mint struck 2 million of each design with a W mint mark, the first quarters to carry it, and released them only into circulation; the 2020-W coins also bear a V75 privy mark for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. In April 2021 the reverse changed to General Washington crossing the Delaware, as Public Law 110-456 required; those coins are filed here under 2021. Error varieties including wrong planchet strikes, broadstrikes, and doubled dies have been documented across multiple years. The series maintained public interest in quarter collecting for over a decade, introducing millions to their national parks through pocket change.

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Series Information

Production Years

2010-2021

Designer

John Flanagan (obverse); various (reverse)

Composition

Copper-nickel clad (91.67% copper, 8.33% nickel); 90% silver proofs 2010-2018; 99.9% silver proofs 2019-2021

Weight

5.67g

Diameter

24.26mm

Edge

Reeded

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History

Congress created the program with the America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008, Public Law 110-456, enacted on December 23, 2008. From 2010 the quarter's reverse honored one national site in each state, the District of Columbia and the five territories, 56 in all, at five new designs a year. The Treasury chose each site after consulting the Interior Department and the state's governor, and the Commission of Fine Arts and the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee reviewed the designs. The law barred portrait busts, living people and state outlines from the reverse.

The sites were issued in the order each was first made a national site. That is why 2010 opened with Hot Springs, set aside in 1832, and why the series ended with the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, established in 1998. Despite the program's nickname, only 18 of the 56 are national parks. Others are national forests, wildlife refuges, historic sites, lakeshores and one wilderness. Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Mount Rushmore had already appeared on the 50 State quarters, but with different designs.

The program followed the 2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories quarters. The law allowed a second round of sites, but none was ordered. It also told the Mint what came next: a reverse showing Washington crossing the Delaware, paired with the obverse used before 1999. That coin replaced Tuskegee Airmen in April 2021. From 2022 the American Women quarters took over, and the 2026 Semiquincentennial coins followed them.

How to Identify It

Reverse. Each design names the site and its state or territory, with the date and E PLURIBUS UNUM. The date is on the reverse, not the obverse.
Obverse. John Flanagan's 1932 portrait of Washington, digitally enhanced in 2010 to bring back detail from the original model. QUARTER DOLLAR sits on the obverse. On the 2021 Crossing the Delaware quarter the portrait returns to its pre-1999 form and QUARTER DOLLAR moves to the reverse.
P and D coins went into circulation. S coins are proofs, plus, from 2012, uncirculated coins sold only in rolls, bags and sets. San Francisco struck no circulation-finish ATB quarters in 2010 or 2011.
W. West Point struck 2,000,000 of each 2019 design, the first quarters with a W, and mixed them into circulation. The 2020-W coins add a V75 privy mark above LIBERTY.
Special finishes. The 2010 Mint sets held satin finish P and D coins, and the 2017 Enhanced Uncirculated Coin Set held S coins with a special finish. San Francisco also struck silver reverse proofs of the 2018 designs for a set capped at 200,000.

The Designs

2010

Hot Springs (Arkansas) shows the park headquarters with a thermal fountain. Yellowstone (Wyoming) pairs Old Faithful with a bison, Yosemite (California) shows El Capitan, Grand Canyon (Arizona) looks into Marble Canyon, and Mount Hood (Oregon) rises over Lost Lake.

2011

Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) shows the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry monument, Glacier (Montana) a mountain goat below Reynolds Mountain, and Olympic (Washington) a Roosevelt elk by the Hoh River. Vicksburg (Mississippi) carries the ironclad USS Cairo, and Chickasaw (Oklahoma) the Lincoln Bridge.

2012

El Yunque (Puerto Rico) has a coquí frog and a Puerto Rican parrot. Chaco Culture (New Mexico) shows two kivas of Chetro Ketl, Acadia (Maine) the Bass Harbor Head lighthouse, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes an eruption of Kīlauea, and Denali (Alaska) a Dall sheep below the mountain.

2013

White Mountain (New Hampshire) frames Mount Chocorua with birches. Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial (Ohio) shows Oliver Hazard Perry's statue and the memorial column. Great Basin (Nevada) has a bristlecone pine, Fort McHenry (Maryland) the fort under bombardment, and Mount Rushmore (South Dakota) workers carving the memorial.

2014

Great Smoky Mountains (Tennessee) shows a log cabin and a hawk, Shenandoah (Virginia) a hiker atop Stony Man, Arches (Utah) Delicate Arch, Great Sand Dunes (Colorado) a father and son by a creek, and Everglades (Florida) an anhinga and a roseate spoonbill.

2015

Homestead (Nebraska) shows a cabin, corn and a water pump. Kisatchie (Louisiana) has a wild turkey in flight, Blue Ridge Parkway (North Carolina) a stretch of road with dogwood, Bombay Hook (Delaware) a great blue heron and great egret, and Saratoga (New York) Burgoyne surrendering his sword.

2016

Shawnee (Illinois) shows Camel Rock with a red-tailed hawk, Cumberland Gap (Kentucky) a frontiersman looking west, Harpers Ferry (West Virginia) John Brown's Fort, Theodore Roosevelt (North Dakota) the young Roosevelt on horseback, and Fort Moultrie (South Carolina) Sergeant William Jasper returning the flag.

2017

Effigy Mounds (Iowa) shows the Marching Bear Group from above. Frederick Douglass (District of Columbia) is seated at a desk before his home, Cedar Hill. Ozark Riverways (Missouri) has Alley Mill, Ellis Island (New Jersey) an immigrant family, and George Rogers Clark (Indiana) Clark's men wading toward Fort Sackville.

2018

Pictured Rocks (Michigan) shows Chapel Rock, Apostle Islands (Wisconsin) the Devils Island sea caves, Voyageurs (Minnesota) a common loon, Cumberland Island (Georgia) a snowy egret, and Block Island (Rhode Island) a black-crowned night-heron over Cow Cove.

2019

Lowell (Massachusetts) has a mill girl at a power loom, and American Memorial Park (Northern Mariana Islands) a young Chamorro woman at the Court of Honor. War in the Pacific (Guam) shows troops landing at Asan Bay, San Antonio Missions (Texas) symbols drawn from the Spanish colonial real, and Frank Church River of No Return (Idaho) a drift boat in rapids. Each also has a W version.

2020

National Park of American Samoa shows a Samoa fruit bat with her pup, Weir Farm (Connecticut) a painter outside Julian Alden Weir's studio, Salt River Bay (U.S. Virgin Islands) a young red mangrove, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller (Vermont) a girl planting a spruce seedling, and Tallgrass Prairie (Kansas) a regal fritillary butterfly. The W coins carry the V75 privy.

2021

Tuskegee Airmen (Alabama) closed the program: an airman suiting up beneath two P-51 Mustangs, with the words THEY FOUGHT TWO WARS. From April 5, 2021 the quarter carried Benjamin Sowards's Crossing the Delaware reverse instead, which is not one of the 56 sites.

Mintages

America the Beautiful Quarters 2010-2021 mintages by design and finish, taken from each coin's page in our catalog. Each figure opens that coin's page, which lists its varieties and errors. A dash means no figure was recorded. Where one issue was struck in more than one type, each type is listed.

Design	P	D	S	W	P Satin	D Satin	Proof	Silver Proof
2010 Grand Canyon National Park	34,800,000	35,400,000			583,897	583,897	1,401,462	859,417
2010 Hot Springs National Park	35,600,000	34,000,000			583,897	583,897	1,402,889	859,417
2010 Mount Hood National Forest	34,400,000	34,400,000			583,897	583,897	1,398,106	859,417
2010 Yellowstone National Park	33,600,000	34,800,000			583,897	583,897	1,404,259	859,417
2010 Yosemite National Park	35,200,000	34,800,000			583,897	583,897	1,401,522	859,417
2011 Chickasaw National Recreation Area	73,800,000	69,400,000					1,266,825	722,076
2011 Gettysburg National Military Park	30,800,000	30,400,000					1,273,068	722,076
2011 Glacier National Park	30,400,000	31,200,000					1,269,422	722,076
2011 Olympic National Park	30,400,000	30,600,000					1,268,231	722,076
2011 Vicksburg National Military Park	30,800,000	33,400,000					1,268,623	722,076
2012 Acadia National Park	24,800,000	21,606,000	1,409,120				962,038	557,891
2012 Chaco Culture National Historical Park	22,000,000	22,000,000	1,389,020				961,464	557,891
2012 Denali National Park	135,400,000	166,600,000	1,409,220				959,602	557,891
2012 El Yunque National Forest	25,800,000	25,000,000	1,680,140				1,012,094	557,891
2012 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park	46,200,000	78,600,000	1,409,120				962,447	557,891
2013 Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine	120,000,000	151,400,000	1,313,680				946,380	557,647
2013 Great Basin National Park	122,400,000	141,400,000	1,316,500				945,777	557,647
2013 Mount Rushmore National Memorial	231,800,000	272,400,000	1,373,260				958,853	557,647
2013 Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial	107,800,000	131,600,000	1,425,860				947,815	557,647
2013 White Mountain National Forest	68,800,000	107,600,000	1,606,900				989,803	557,647
2014 Arches National Park	214,200,000	251,400,000	1,226,220				844,775	501,944
2014 Everglades National Park	157,601,200	142,400,000	1,173,720				856,139	501,944
2014 Great Sand Dunes National Park	159,600,000	171,800,000	1,170,500				843,238	501,944
2014 Great Smoky Mountains National Park	73,200,000	99,400,000	1,360,780				829,840	501,944
2014 Shenandoah National Park	112,800,000	197,800,000	1,260,700				846,441	501,944
2015 Blue Ridge Parkway	325,616,000	505,200,000	1,049,500				762,407	490,829
2015 Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	275,000,000	206,400,000	923,960				762,407	490,829
2015 Homestead National Monument of America	214,400,000	248,600,000	1,135,460				831,503	490,829
2015 Kisatchie National Forest	397,200,000	379,600,000	1,099,380				762,407	490,829
2015 Saratoga National Historical Park	223,000,000	215,800,000	888,380				791,347	490,829
2016 Cumberland Gap National Historical Park	215,400,000	223,200,000	975,220				660,215	479,657
2016 Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument)	154,400,000	142,200,000	863,860				675,997	479,657
2016 Harpers Ferry National Historical Park	434,630,000	424,000,000	976,420				660,215	479,657
2016 Shawnee National Forest	155,600,000	151,800,000	1,066,440				660,215	479,657
2016 Theodore Roosevelt National Park	231,600,000	232,200,000	976,760				660,215	479,657
2017 Effigy Mounds National Monument	271,200,000	210,800,000	919,620				629,997	466,711
2017 Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty National Monument)	234,000,000	254,000,000	901,780				629,997	466,711
2017 Frederick Douglass National Historic Site	184,800,000	185,800,000	910,760				629,997	466,711
2017 George Rogers Clark National Historical Park	196,600,000	180,800,000	815,540				629,997	466,711
2017 Ozark National Scenic Riverways	203,000,000	200,000,000	878,240				629,997	466,711
2018 Apostle Islands National Lakeshore	223,200,000	213,400,000	871,820				603,747	461,053
2018 Block Island National Wildlife Refuge	159,600,000	159,600,000	870,361				621,466	461,053
2018 Cumberland Island National Seashore	138,000,000	151,600,000	896,361				603,747	461,053
2018 Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore	186,714,000	182,600,000	917,580				637,779	461,053
2018 Voyageurs National Park	237,400,000	197,800,000	882,666				603,747	461,053
2019 American Memorial Park	142,800,000	182,600,000	952,795	2,000,000			—	—
2019 Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness	223,400,000	251,600,000	946,859	2,000,000			—	—
2019 Lowell National Historical Park	165,800,000	182,200,000	924,503	2,000,000			—	—
2019 San Antonio Missions National Historical Park	142,800,000	129,400,000	946,974	2,000,000			—	—
2019 War in the Pacific National Historical Park	116,600,000	114,400,000	945,719	2,000,000			—	—
2020 American Samoa National Park	286,000,000	212,200,000	955,145	2,000,000			—	427,256
2020 Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park	304,600,000	345,800,000	945,449	2,000,000			—	427,256
2020 Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve	—	515,000,000	949,947	2,000,000			—	427,256
2020 Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve	101,200,000	142,400,000	951,612	2,000,000			—	427,256
2020 Weir Farm National Historic Site	125,600,000	155,000,000	961,229	2,000,000			—	427,256
2021 Crossing the Delaware	838,400,000	865,400,000					490,829	357,774
2021 Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site	160,400,000	304,000,000	858,572				—	—

Errors and Varieties

Two Philadelphia issues stand out in the Wexler doubled die files: the 2015-P Bombay Hook and the 2017-P Frederick Douglass, each with a long run of doubled die reverses. Several of the Bombay Hook varieties show as extra blades of grass near the two birds.

In Our Catalog

885 errors and varieties are listed for this series. Browse them by type:

Recently added

2021 (P) Tuskegee Airmen National Park Quarter - STT 001 · 2021 (P) Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site Quarter
2020 (P) American Samoa National Park Quarter - Strike Through 001 · 2020 (P) American Samoa National Park Quarter
2015 Doubled Die Reverse DDR-012 · 2015 (P) Homestead National Monument of America Quarter
2015 Doubled Die Reverse DDR-011 · 2015 (P) Homestead National Monument of America Quarter
2015 Doubled Die Reverse DDR-010 · 2015 (P) Homestead National Monument of America Quarter

Composition and Silver Content

Circulation, uncirculated and clad proof: copper-nickel clad, outer layers of 75% copper and 25% nickel bonded to a copper core (91.67% copper, 8.33% nickel overall); 5.67 g; 24.26 mm; 119 reeds on the edge.
Silver proofs, 2010-2018: 90% silver, 10% copper; 6.25 g.
Silver proofs, 2019-2021: 99.9% silver, after the Mint stopped making 90% silver coins.

The 5 oz coins are a separate issue: 3 inches across and 5 ounces of .999 silver, sold as bullion without a mint mark and as P-marked collector coins. See our 5 oz America the Beautiful silver quarters.

FAQ

What are 2019-W quarters?

In 2019 the West Point Mint struck 2,000,000 of each of that year's five America the Beautiful designs, Lowell, American Memorial, War in the Pacific, San Antonio Missions and Frank Church River of No Return, with a W mint mark. They were the first quarters to carry a W. The Mint did not sell them; they were mixed into bags with Philadelphia and Denver coins and reached collectors only through change. In 2020 West Point struck 2,000,000 more of each design, this time with a V75 privy mark for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Which national park quarters are rare?

Mintages tell the story. Philadelphia and Denver struck between about 30 and 35 million of each 2010 and 2011 design, except Chickasaw (73,800,000 P and 69,400,000 D). Chaco Culture was 22,000,000 at each mint and Acadia-D 21,606,000. West Point made 2,000,000 of each 2019 and 2020 design. San Francisco uncirculated coins, sold only in rolls and bags from 2012, run about 0.9 to 1.7 million per design. The 2010 satin finish coins in Mint sets number 583,897, and the 2018 silver reverse proofs came from a set capped at 200,000.

What order were the America the Beautiful quarters released in?

The law that created the program set the order. Each year's five sites came out in the order in which each had first been made a national site, so Hot Springs, a federal reservation since 1832, came first in 2010, and Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, established in 1998, came last in 2021. The full list by year is in The Designs section above.

What is special about the 2012 El Yunque and Chaco Culture quarters?

El Yunque, released in January 2012, was the program's first design for a territory (Puerto Rico), and it was also the first America the Beautiful quarter the Mint sold with an S mint mark in circulation finish. Chaco Culture followed in April 2012; Philadelphia and Denver each struck 22,000,000, and San Francisco 1,389,020 uncirculated coins. El Yunque's P and D figures are 25,800,000 and 25,000,000.

What is on the 2021 Tuskegee Airmen quarter?

The last of the 56 designs shows a Tuskegee Airman suiting up, looking skyward, with the Moton Field control tower behind him and two P-51 Mustangs overhead, under the words THEY FOUGHT TWO WARS. Chris Costello designed it and Phebe Hemphill sculpted it. Philadelphia struck 160,400,000 and Denver 304,000,000; it was the only America the Beautiful design dated 2021.

What is a 5 oz America the Beautiful quarter?

The same 2008 law ordered 3-inch, 5-ounce coins of .999 fine silver that duplicate each quarter design, with the fineness and weight incused on the edge. Bullion pieces have no mint mark; collector versions carry a P and have an uncirculated finish. They are listed separately in our 5 oz America the Beautiful silver quarters series.

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