On Aug. 24, the United States Mint will present a selection of five distinctively designed ornaments, with each showcasing one of the five 2023 American Women quarter dollars from the ongoing four-year series that began last year
This year’s quarters honor Bessie Coleman, Edith Kanakaʻole, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jovita Idar, and Maria Tallchief for their contributions to the nation’s development and history.
Each ornament is priced at $35, approximately $4 more than last year’s debut price. Additionally, each ornament contains an uncirculated quarter struck at the U.S. Mint facility in Philadelphia. Uncirculated coins are specifically produced for collectors. These coins are manually loaded into coining presses and struck on specially burnished blanks to achieve a brilliant finish.
Currently, the Mint’s product pages for the souvenirs show them without limits. Last year’s souvenirs are still available, with limits of 5,000 each, and U.S. Mint figures through May 28 indicate sales ranging from just over 1,700 to 3,040.
Subscriptions for the ornaments are already available. U.S. Mint subscriptions function similarly to magazine subscriptions, wherein subscribers receive new products as they become available. The subscription price for the ornaments is $175 for the entire set, equating to $35 per ornament. Additionally, the U.S. Mint offers complimentary shipping for subscribed products, resulting in a savings of $5.95.
To learn more or to order, visit the Mint’s ornament subscription page.
Oh Happy Day! I’ve been looking so forward to this day. I can actually spend $35 and get a whole new quarter in BU condition surrounded by tin foil? At least an ‘S’ minted quarter is used. Oh wait, they are just the ‘P’ minted quarters. What a bargain! At least I have a couple months to decide how many sets I want to buy.
Craig, you should temper your excitement as you’ll cause a stampede to round up last years herd! Then the next thing you know the 2023 Subscriptions will go “Unavailable”? Then to your displeasure, you won’t be able to pick up this years at $4.00 more/ornament, on drop day or via subscription! LOL All I can muster is, $35?, damn! Ouch! So yeah, slap $135 dollars in US Mint Ornaments on your $75 Christmas tree! Hell buy some slider Morgan’s or Peace dollars and tie some thread around them and at least those will have future value. Gee, 2 ornaments with… Read more »
CaliSkier and Craig,
Guys, look at the bright side; at least you don’t have to buy a whole tree of them!
Brilliant idea Kaiser Wilhelm! For an additional $79, one can purchase a gold foil gilded cardboard cutout of a Christmas Tree that will fit the given year’s ornaments like a puzzle. No coins, no COA, just a gold foil gilded Christmas tree that only fits or hold those exact years ornaments. Then each year just make sure to change the shape and sell a new Christmas tree puzzle, only make sure to increase the price by a minimum of $10 each year! Then eventually you’ll have a miniature “coin forrest” and you can honestly say, “Money grows on trees”! Although… Read more »
Why, thank you kindly, CaliSkier; in fact, you’ve just given me the initial positive response of what amounts to a one man focus group! I in turn am exceedingly enthusiastic about your fabulous notion of the miniature Christmas tree forest (run, forest, run), each unit of which will be populated with the Mint’s assuredly wondrous annual ornament selection.
Pictured below, the upcoming “next generation” US Mint Christmas Tree made entirely of one ounce gold coins. No Household Limit.
CaliSkier, My Christmas tree is always decorated with antique ornaments, mostly from my late parents collection, and Hallmark ornaments that I like. I can buy an attractive Disney collectable for less than what those greedy, money hungry imps at the mint charge for a quarter. I have to assume they think the general populous is comprised of idiots who will pay whatever they demand for an item. You almost have to chuckle at the thought of paying $35, plus shipping, for one lousy quarter minted in the shining city of Philadelphia.
Craig, I think you are correct. I heard that it is always sunny in Philadelphia.
It will be, as long as they have Danny. He always cracks me up!
Craig,
For my money he was the best one on “Taxi”. I loved his expressions.
hmmm for that price couldn’t they have put in a shinier silver quarter?
The frosting on that particular cake, c_q, is that the Mint couldn’t even spring for silver!
I’ll wait until Big Mike or whoever offers them in GEM limited edition first day of issue for $100, a bargain at any price.
Just look at how few of last year’s versions are left available
oh, wait I see someone on e-bay is selling all 5 of last year’s for $110 and free shipping. oh wait, I see you could still buy 2000 of the 5000 limit from the mint of the Sally Ride ornament. take a number and get in line.
This brings to mind, Tom, a couple of amusing thoughts. First, every coin ever made is essentially a “limited edition” since no coin is ever struck with an infinite number of copies produced. Secondly, we just recently discussed the absolute futility of trying to determine in what order any particular Mint coin was struck, so that category has no meaning either.
Kaiser, Every time I see Mike Mezack on tv selling his overpriced coins over the years, I too have also thought when he says it over & over again that every USA legal tender coin is eventually a sold out limited edition item at some time. The problem is that he lies when he says that phrase most times, since they are often still available on the Mint’s website when he is on live tv HSN coin shopping show saying they are sold out, while I’m on the Mint’s website at the same moment & the coin he is selling… Read more »
A madness, Seth, that only applies within the existential framework which the likes of you and I normally employ to ascertain whether or not something is indeed true. This, unfortunately, is a reference to a type of reality which matters less than a rusty farthing to the likes of Mike Sold Out Limited Edition Mezack; all that matters to him is that the suckers who watch him remain sufficiently bamboozled to buy.
Kaiser,
Such an appropriate Mark Twain quote!
He really knew human nature well, as did P. T. Barnum (his portrait & name are on the 1936 Bridgeport, Connecticut centennial silver commemorative half dollar (issued after his death & at an issue price of $2 per 50-cent coin! He had the last laugh about “suckers”). Lol.
NumisdudeTX
Seth,
Mark Twain was doubtless one of the best ever observers of the human condition; there are so many quotes of his that are worth their weight in gold. I have a special soft spot for him since he wrote a book about his time in Heidelberg (Germany), my home for the last five years before I moved to the USA.
This is where we lived in Heidelberg, which helps explain how I came to the USA as a citizen after living overseas my first 18 years.
Kaiser,
Mark Twain would be proud of that honor of “Mark Twain Village”. I knew he traveled a lot, but didn’t know he lived in Heidelberg one Summer in 1878 – the year of the first Morgan $1 coins…
NumisdudeTX
Seth,
Now that the entire property, both the housing area Mark Twain Village and the Army base Campbell Barracks, have been deeded back to the Germans they are converting it into a modernistic green residential community which surprisingly enough is being called, drumroll please, Mark Twain Village.
Kaiser, What a beautiful picture of my beloved Germany…I never made it to Heidelberg in my 3 years at Bad Aibling Station (Kaserne), but made trips to Berlin, Stuttgart for a speech & debate competition & Passau where I lived with a German family for a week as a member of the German Club at Munich American High School (DOD) & many other towns/cities, plus once a month trips to the Army base in Augsburg for my orthodontics adjustments (our German motor pool driver would always take us through the old ancient Roman walls section for sightseeing). Great memories for… Read more »
Seth,
Germany is one of the most picturesque countries in Europe and the Heidelberg area is one of the most beautiful parts in all of Germany, so yes, it has a lot going for it view wise. One of my best friends from Heidelberg American High School has moved back over there in his retirement, so essentially he and I have simply exchanged continents over a period of sixty years.
Kaiser,
Sounds nice – wish I could afford to live there like 3 months a year in retirement (maybe I could if I sell off my numismatic collection, but the thought of that idea agitates my OCD!).
NumisdudeTX
That’s funny, Seth, because in my case my OCD agitates me!
My choice of a second home in Deutschland would be one in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area. We enjoyed some great vacations there and at Chiemsee and Berchtesgaden while we were based at Seventh Army in Stuttgart-Vaihingen.
Kaiser, This is such another coincidence! I went to high school in Munich (McGraw Kaserne) with kids from the 4 USA DOD bases & the NSA base I lived on, from about a 1.5-hour military bus ride radius with kids from Garmisch-Partenkirchen (great ski slopes!), Bad Tolz, & Bad Aibling Station (where my family lived). We were just a 40-minute drive from Lake Chinese where the Army had a recreational retreat, land, hotel etc. that we enjoyed often in Summer. Also, I attended the USA DOD 1976 Teen Forum week gathering held at the Hotel General Walker near, (just maybe… Read more »
I just noticed a typo I missed – Lake Chiemsee, NOT Lake Chinese! Lmao. It is my fault, but my new smartphone auto-correct is driving me crazier than I am…
NumisdudeTX
That could be a portent of things to come, Seth. Who knows how long before the Chinese buy the Chiemsee and rename it?
Seth, I guess having to take a bus ride to school was standard procedure back then since just a few centralized DOD schools had to serve an entire range of widely scattered military bases. I took a half hour ride each way to the middle school and junior high in Stuttgart-Boeblingen from the US Seventh Army’s Patch Barracks in Stuttgart-Vaihingen every day. When we visited Garmisch-Partenkirchen during summer vacation we always stopped off in Berchtesgaden for a couple of nights and stayed at the Hotel Berchtesgadener Hof while there. I never did go up to the Eagle’s Nest but I… Read more »
Kaiser,
That is a cool pic for sure! Most places in Germany look like an idyllic, fairytale postcard picture, & worth writing “Wish You Were Here” on them. I wish I had an Opa or Oma living in Germany that I could visit & stay with for free each Summer! Lol.
I never visited the major industrial/smokestack factory/mining part of Germany, but as the powerhouse of the EU now, I suppose it still exists with maybe much more stringent environmental regulations – you wouldn’t want to spoil a picture-perfect country…
NumisdudeTX
It was the opposite for us, Seth, after we moved from Vienna to Stuttgart and then on to Heidelberg. Instead of us going back to Wien to share our Opa and Oma’s cold water fifth floor walkup studio apartment, they spent half of each year with us in our much roomier and all-around more convenient Army housing.
I was never much aware of the German industrial heartland as we rarely ever went there. Instead we spent our travel and vacation time enjoying beautiful places like the countryside and cities along the route of Die Romantische Strasse in Bavaria.
These remind of the SNL commercial: You’d give her the sun, the moon, the stars, but for now, give her something to distract her: the diamond encrusted Fidget Spinner. Cartier Ad – SNL – YouTube
Which just goes to show that old adage to be true; lusting will get you every time.
FYI,
It’s amazing but true that the Mint found some company in the USA to make these things!
Coming to a Hallmark store near you soon on markdown price… Lol.
The AWQ 25-cent coins in these ornaments are just circulation-quality & not produced with special burnished blank planchets as this article says.
Happy Holidays in July!(Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa etc.)…
NumisdudeTX
If the Mint made even cheaper AWQ bullion versions, they would be in the ornaments.
Kaiser, check out my fun typo faux pas:
https://www.coinnews.net/2023/06/02/2023-american-women-quarters-ornaments-available-aug-24/#comment-522631
NumisdudeTX