Back in 2010, the United States Mint introduced the coin collecting community to a 56-quarter dollar coin series called the America the Beautiful Quarters Program. The series’ designs feature national parks and other national sites with the intent of honoring such sites as they hold distinctive, historic significance.
As of this year, 2019, the program has been releasing five designs each year for the last ten years. Most recently, the Mint has revealed the final six designs of the program that will release in 2020-2021. The first five designs in 2020 will include the following designs on the reverse of the quarters:
- 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)
The final design in the series will be released in 2021 and will honor the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Alabama. The designs were created by artists that are a part of the U.S. Mint’s Artistic Infusion Program (AIP) while current U.S. Mint sculptor-engravers helped to sculpt the beautiful representations of each historic site.
The America the Beautiful Quarters Program was first introduced into law, Public Law 110-456, in 2008 with the America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act.