Collectable Coins

The United States Mint of the US Department of the Treasury recently concluded its 50 States Quarter Program, which began with the states of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut in 1999 and ended in 10 years, finishing with the states of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii. These collectable coins were released in the order that the states either ratified the Constitution or joined the Union. Each quarter had a unique design on the back that represented its state, and the quarters were each minted for 10 weeks, after which they will never be minted again. The quarters are unified with the same front design and the phrases United States of America, liberty, Quarter Dollar, and In God We Trust. There were many collectable coin sets available for enthusiastic numismatists, ranging from a simple booklet with rows of holes to insert the quarters in, to the elaborate map board of the US, with holes to place each quarter in the state it belonged to. After a decade, their coin collections were finally complete.

However, the end of the 50 States Quarter Program doesnt signify the end of American collectable coins by any means. The United States Mint has launched another coin collecting mission, this time for $1 coins. Presidential $1 coins are being released in the order that the presidents served our country, starting with Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison in 2007. According to plan, the coins are slated to reach Nixon and Ford in 2016. The presidential collectable coins are gold like the Sacagawea dollar coin. Each of the dollar coins has a rendition of the Statue of Liberty on the reverse side, and they bear the inscriptions of In God We Trust and E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many None).

And even in addition to the Presidential $1 Coins, the United States Mint also plans to commence the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters program, in which 56 different quarter designs will be released in 2010. The quarters will commemorate famous national sites such as Yellowstone Park, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Hot Springs National Park, and Mt. Hood National Forest, which will be the first 5 collectable quarters released. Our treasury continues to be creative with American currency by also releasing quarters that honor the DC and 5 US territories and Native American $1 coins, and it has found a way to celebrate our American heritage while working to preserve it.