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Coin Series The series created to honor the spouses of the Presidents will enter its fourth year in 2010. First Spouse Gold Coins have been issued each year since 2007, featuring the First Spouses in the order of the Presidencies. Generally four different First Ladies are presented per year, but there have been some notable [...]

Coin Information The United States Mint will issue the Mary Todd Lincoln First Spouse Gold Coin in December 2010. This will represent the final release of the year for the series, and the seventeenth release overall. This is expected to be one of the most popular First Spouse coin releases in recent years. The obverse [...]

Coin Information The James Buchanan’s Liberty Gold Coin will be the third release of 2010 for the series created to honor the spouses of the Presidents. Because James Buchanan did not have a spouse while in office, the coin will depict an image representing Liberty combined with a scene from the life of the President. [...]

Coin Information The Jane Pierce First Spouse Gold Coin will be issued by the US Mint as the fifteenth release in the series honoring the First Ladies of the United States. The one-half ounce, 24 karat gold coin is expected to be released in June 2010. The obverse design for the coin features a portrait [...]

Silver Coin Information The United States Mint began accepting orders for the 2010 American Silver Eagle from authorized purchasers on January 19, 2010. This represented a late start for the popular silver bullion coins, but this has not kept sales from maintaining a record pace through the end of the first quarter. In late November [...]

Coin Information The United States Mint released the Abigail Fillmore First Spouse Gold Coin on March 19, 2010. This represented the first issue of the series for 2010, and the fourteenth coin released since the series began back in 2007. Each year, four or five coins have been issued to honor the Nation’s First Spouses [...]

Silver Coin Information In 2010, the United States Mint will introduce America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coins. This will be a brand new series of over-sized bullion coins featuring duplicate designs of the America the Beautiful Quarters series. The offering will carry many unique aspects to entice collectors. Each coin will be an exact duplicate [...]

Coin Information The America the Beautiful Quarters series begins in the year 2010. After eleven years of rotating designs presented through the prior State Quarters series and DC & US Territories Quarters series, collectors have become familiar with the process. There will be five different reverse designs issued during the year, featuring a unique scene [...]

Coin Information The 2010 Mount Hood National Forest Quarter represented the final release of 2010 for the new America the Beautiful Quarter series, featuring the forest located in the state of Oregon. Although most subjects for the reverse designs of the new quarter series will be National Parks, other sites under the protection of a [...]

Coin Information The 2010 Grand Canyon National Park Quarter was issued as the fourth release of the America the Beautiful Quarters program.  Officially, the coins were available through the channels of circulation starting on September 20, 2010. The new coin represented the Grand Canyon’s second appearance on the twenty five cent denomination in the past [...]