America the Beautiful - The much anticipated United States of America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin™ Program is here! Start your collection off right with the very first set of the series, Hot Springs National Park, Mount Hood National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Yosemite National Park. The obverse of these 5 oz Silver bullion coins is nearly an exact replica of each quarter-dollar that has been released in the mint's America the Beautiful circulating quarters program!

      This is one of the most-talked-about United States Mint Bullion products ever released. The National Park System was established through legislation spearheaded by President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt also was responsible for the Antiquities Act, which enabled Roosevelt and his successors to proclaim historical sites or national landmarks. By the end of Roosevelt's term, he had proclaimed 18 national parks. This practice was continued by later presidents using the Antiquities Act until there were more than 100 national parks and monuments. Forty-nine of these remain today, while others have been retitled or reclassified. Theodore Roosevelt can now been seen as one of the four faces on Mount Rushmore because of his tireless efforts to create a a national park system that would preserve America's most valuable treasures for future generations to see and admire.

     These historic coins are being released in the following order:

2010
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Yosemite National Park, California
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Mount 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 Historical 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 Forest, 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, District of Columbia
Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri
Ellis Island National Monument (Statue of Liberty), New Jersey
George Rogers Clark National Historic 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