2010 America the Beautiful Yellowstone Silver 5 oz BU

2010 America the Beautiful Yellowstone National Park 5 Troy oz Silver Specimen copy of the circulating quarters.

When Congress authorized the America the Beautiful Quarters program they also directed the US Mint to issue an accompanying Silver Bullion Coin. The Mint was directed to produce a 5 Troy oz 999 fine coin with a diameter of 3" and with the weight and fineness imprinted (incused) around the edge.

This caused many problems, the first attempts to produce these coins were failures, as the coin was too thin and when the lettering around the edge was struck the coins folded over. By the time the Mint had solved the technical problems the coins could not be distributed until late in 2010.

This is a special satin finished "specimen" coin, struck with a P mintmark (the bullion coins carry no mintmark) and finished with a vapor blasting process that results in a slightly reflective satin finish.

Coin comes in acrylic holder, with box, CoA and outer sleeve.