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Best of America the Beautiful quarters
Fifty-six designs between 2010 and 2021, most of them never seen in change because they were struck in quantities that went straight to collectors. The five-ounce silver versions are a separate collecting field of their own.
| Coin | Year | Mintage | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 S Apostle Islands - Silver Reverse Proof | ATB quarter | 2018 | 199,177 | Proof collector issue |
| 2018 S Block Island - Silver Reverse Proof | ATB quarter | 2018 | 199,177 | Proof collector issue |
| 2018 S Cumberland Island - Silver Reverse Proof | ATB quarter | 2018 | 199,177 | Proof collector issue |
| 2018 S Pictured Rocks - Silver Reverse Proof | ATB quarter | 2018 | 199,177 | Proof collector issue |
| 2018 S Voyageurs - Silver Reverse Proof | ATB quarter | 2018 | 199,177 | Proof collector issue |
| 2019 S American Memorial Park - Silver Proof | ATB quarter | 2019 | 543,894 | Proof collector issue |
| 2019 S Lowell - Silver Proof | ATB quarter | 2019 | 543,894 | Proof collector issue |
| 2019 S River Of No Return - Silver Proof | ATB quarter | 2019 | 543,894 | Proof collector issue |
| 2019 S San Antonio Missions - Silver Proof | ATB quarter | 2019 | 543,894 | Proof collector issue |
| 2019 S War In The Pacific - Silver Proof | ATB quarter | 2019 | 543,894 | Proof collector issue |
| 2019 W American Memorial Park | ATB quarter | 2019 | 2,000,000 | Date / mint / design issue |
| 2019 W Lowell | ATB quarter | 2019 | 2,000,000 | Date / mint / design issue |
| 2019 W River Of No Return | ATB quarter | 2019 | 2,000,000 | Date / mint / design issue |
| 2019 W San Antonio Missions | ATB quarter | 2019 | 2,000,000 | Date / mint / design issue |
| 2019 W War In The Pacific | ATB quarter | 2019 | 2,000,000 | Date / mint / design issue |
| 2020 W American Samoa National Park | ATB quarter | 2020 | 2,000,000 | Date / mint / design issue |
| 2020 W Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller | ATB quarter | 2020 | 2,000,000 | Date / mint / design issue |
| 2020 W Salt River Bay | ATB quarter | 2020 | 2,000,000 | Date / mint / design issue |
| 2020 W Tallgrass Prairie | ATB quarter | 2020 | 2,000,000 | Date / mint / design issue |
| 2020 W Weir Farm | ATB quarter | 2020 | 2,000,000 | Date / mint / design issue |
The difficulty
The problem with the America the Beautiful series is that most of it never circulated, so condition is the whole of the value - and condition arguments are won and lost on surfaces that ordinary photographs flatten into nothing.
Measured relief and surface texture show what a flat photograph cannot: how deep the design still stands and whether the surface carries its original flow lines. Those are measurements, not grades - the bench does not grade a coin and says so.
What to look for
Low-mintage issues, the S-mint circulation strikes of 2012 onward, and the die varieties that are still being catalogued.
Photographing these
These are modern, sharply struck coins where a real variety reads clearly at moderate magnification. Resist the temptation to over-light them.
Five days, no card, every tool unlocked. If it cannot settle your coin it will say so, which is the part worth testing.
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Compiled 2026-09-15. Mintages and designations are matters of record; which coins are worth a second look is an editorial judgement, and this page says so rather than pretending otherwise.
