01 · 2010 · Arkansas
Hot Springs National Park
A headquarters facade and thermal fountain opened the twelve-year sequence.
U.S. MINT / BULLION / AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
America the
Beautiful
56 places. 56 designs. One remarkable collection.
Five ounces of silver carry the nation’s natural, historic, and cultural landscapes across a three-inch canvas.
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Issues56
Program span2010–2021
Silver weight5 troy oz
Fineness.999 silver
Diameter3 inches
The complete issue archive
2010–2021, in release order
Five designs appeared in most years; the fifty-sixth and final design, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, closed the series in 2021. Final issue quantities are not shown because stable, issue-specific official totals are not yet bound to this record.
Four lenses on the series
Architecture, wilderness, history, and flight
31 · 2016 · Illinois
Shawnee National Forest
Camel Rock, native vegetation, and a red-tailed hawk compress geology and wildlife into silver relief.
48 · 2019 · Guam
War in the Pacific
The Asan Bay landing scene brings a territory’s wartime memory into the national sequence.
56 · 2021 · Alabama
Tuskegee Airmen
Pilot, control tower, and P-51 Mustangs complete the program’s final chapter.
Know the right object
Bullion coin versus collector five-ounce coin
The two versions share size, fineness, and core designs. The collector version, however, is struck at Philadelphia, carries a P mint mark, and uses a special finish. This guide concerns only the standard no-mint-mark bullion coin distributed through the Authorized Purchaser network.
Standard bullion coin
No mint mark · bullion finish · Authorized Purchaser distribution
Collector five-ounce coin
P mint mark · special finish · sold as a collector product
Sources and method
Identify the object before telling the story
Program facts, specifications, sequence, and image identity are grounded in United States Mint material and federal law. Representative images appear only where the reverse is explicitly identified as the standard five-ounce bullion coin; quantities without a stable official final value remain unavailable.
From pocket to palm
The same designs at a radically different scale
Each five-ounce bullion coin reproduces the obverse and reverse designs of its quarter counterpart, expanding a familiar composition onto a three-inch silver canvas. It is not an enlarged token or a medal: it is a United States bullion coin with a legal-tender value of twenty-five cents.
× 3.14About 24.3 mm → 76.2 mm in diameter
The bullion coin carries an incuse weight-and-fineness inscription on its edge.
Five ounces of silver. Fifty-six places. One shared portrait of a nation.
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