2016-04-05 Tue

On 4th April, the U. S. Mint officially started selling ‘America the Beautiful Quarters’ commemorating Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Kentucky. This coin is the fourth of the five designs that will be released in 2016 and it’s the 32nd issued since the series debuted in 2010. Banks around the country cannot order quarters by design or from a specific minting facility and hence ordering directly from the mint is the only good option left.

On April 11th, the U.S. Mint and National Park Service will officially introduce the quarter. The event is at the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Visitor Centre beginning at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. There is no entry fee and attendees can swap cash for rolls of the new coins.

Created by Barbara Fox and sculpted by Joseph Menna, the winning reverse design shows a frontiersman gazing across the mountains to the West. Inscriptions include ‘CUMBERLAND GAP’, ‘KENTUCKY’, ‘2016’ and ‘E PLURIBUS UNUM’.

The obverse is designed by John Flanagan featuring a portrait of George Washington with the inscriptions ‘UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’, ‘LIBERTY’, ‘IN GOD WE TRUST’ and ‘QUARTER DOLLAR’.

Obverses also have a mint mark of ‘P’, ‘D’ or ‘S’ to notate their production location in Philadelphia, Denver or San Francisco.