December 15, 2023 -
By Sharon McPike December 15, 2023 The United States Mint hosted representatives from the Friends of the WWII Memorial to ceremoniously strike coins for the 2024 Greatest Generation Commemorative Coin Program. Public Law 117-162 authorizes the U.S. Mint to issue...
March 30, 2021 -
By Sharon McPike March 30, 2021 In 2010, the United States Mint began issuing 56 quarter-dollar coins featuring designs depicting national parks and other national sites as part of the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program. Former Secretary...
January 22, 2024 -
By Office of Corporate Communications February 18, 2020 In this video, U.S. Mint Medallic Artist Phebe Hemphill discusses her work on the National Park of American Samoa Quarter. On February 13, 2020, the U.S. Mint released a quarter honoring the...
November 19, 2020 -
The Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Alabama commemorates the heroic actions and achievements of the famous Tuskegee Airmen. The term “Tuskegee Airmen” pertains to both men and women of diverse nationalities. They were composed of nearly 1,000 pilots and...
February 10, 2020 -
Weir Farm National Historic Site in Connecticut includes a 68-acre cultural landscape consisting of 15 historic structures, including houses, barns, studios, and outbuildings. The landscape features bedrock outcrops, historic gardens, stone terraces, specimen trees, orchards, fields, miles of stone laid...
January 15, 2020 -
Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve is a living museum on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It possesses an archeological and historical heritage more than 2,000 years old that exists within a dynamic ecosystem, which supports threatened...
January 15, 2020 -
The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Vermont is the only national park dedicated to telling the story of conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America. It was the boyhood home of George Perkins Marsh, one of...
January 15, 2020 -
National Park of American Samoa is located some 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii and is one of the most remote in the U.S. National Park System. The site includes sections of three islands—Tutuila, Ta’ū, and Ofu. Almost all of the...
June 21, 2023 -
By Office of Corporate Communications August 2, 2019 In this video, U.S. Mint Chief Engraver Joe Menna and artist Chris Costello discuss their work on the quarter honoring San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. On Thursday, September 5, 2019, the...
June 21, 2023 -
By Office of Corporate Communications May 3, 2019 On April 30, 2019, the U.S. Mint released a quarter honoring the American Memorial Park in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Later in the week, on May 3, 2019,...