Artwork designs for next year’s 2012 Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Coins were published by the United States Mint this week. These collectibles — in gold and silver — will celebrate more than just the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, the selected designs commemorate the events that led to the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem, by Francis Scott Key.
The specifications are standard for modern American commemorative coins. The gold coins will weigh 8.359 grams and have a diameter of 0.850 inches. Their composition will be 90 percent gold and 10 percent alloy, and they will be minted at West Point [...]
The United States Mint recently unveiled the selected five reverse designs for the 2012 America the Beautiful Quarters. The same designs will also be used on the investment-grade 2012 America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Bullion Coins and numismatic 2012 America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coins.
These five final designs were chosen from a total of twenty-four design candidates released by the United States Mint in October 2010. Four to five candidates were offered for each of the 2012 quarters as created by artists for possible selection. For the year, the five sites honored in the three different America the Beautiful Coin Programs are [...]
"Trade Routes in the 17th Century" is the new design theme for the 2012 Native American $1 coin, the United States Mint said today during an unveiling of the dollar design. The new coin is expected to be issued early next year and minted throughout 2012 to meet demand.
Native American $1s must feature annually changing reverse designs that contain "images celebrating the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and the history of the United States." The design requirement is mandated by the Native American $1 Coin Act (Public Law 110-82).
The 2012 design portrays a Native American and horse in the foreground with running horses in the background. Designed by [...]
Yesterday the United States Mint unveiled the commemorative 2012 Infantry Soldier Silver Dollar designs in a pre-game ceremony at Fort Benning’s historic Doughboy Stadium in Georgia.
Taking place before the football matchup between the Fort Benning Doughboys and the Columbus State University Cougars, B. B. Craig, Associate Director of Sales and Marketing at the United States Mint spoke before the crowd and special guests representing the National Infantry Foundation and Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipients [...]
The United States Mint has unveiled the final design images for the 2011 First Spouse Gold Coins featuring the wives of Presidents Johnson, Grant, Hayes, and Garfield.
These men will be depicted in 2011 on Presidential $1 clad coins released into circulation while their spouses will be honored on $10 gold collector pieces sold by the US Mint directly to the public [...]
The United States Mint this month revealed the final five designs for the 2011 America the Beautiful Quarters™ and companion 2011 America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins and 2011 America the Beautiful Silver Uncirculated Coins.
Until now, 18 design candidates were available with several proposals of each design. The candidates were narrowed down through a selection process, with the final five chosen by the Treasury Secretary after receiving [...]
The United States Mint on Wednesday released design images of the 2011 Presidential $1 Dollar Coins. The dollars feature portraits of former Presidents Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and James Garfield.
They mark the seventeenth through the twentieth dollar coins to be issued in the United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin Program which began in 2007 with [...]
There will be five 2012 America the Beautiful Quarters featuring reverse designs representing selected sites located within Puerto Rico, New Mexico, Maine, Hawaii, and Alaska.
Already preparing for their release, the U.S. Mint has created and offered up for review 24 candidate designs that are emblematic of the four national parks and one national forest that will be honored in 2012, which is the third year of the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program [...]
In 2011, the United States Mint has been authorized by Public Law 111-91 to issue commemorative silver and gold coins to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Medal of Honor.
The Medal of Honor for individual valor was proposed by Iowa Senator James W. Grimes in 1861 and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on December 21, 1861. [...]
The series of design proposals for the 2011 First Spouse Gold Coins have been created and presented to various officials and review bodies, including the Commission of Fine Arts or CFA.
The one-half ounce, 24 karat gold coins that debuted in 2007 continue into 2011 by honoring the spouses of the 17th through 20th Presidents of the United States — Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield.
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