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 »
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 »
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.
It will be, as long as they have Danny. He always cracks me up!
hmmm for that price couldn’t they have put in a shinier silver quarter?
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.
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 »
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
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 »
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
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
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
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
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
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