2010 Native American $1 Rolls Available 1/22

by U.S. Mint

The United States Mint will open sales for rolls of 2010 Native American $1 Coins at noon Eastern Time (ET) on January 22, 2010. The 25-coin rolls, priced at $35.95 each, contain circulating quality Native American $1 Coins from the United States Mint facilities at Philadelphia or Denver. The coins are presented in distinctive numismatic packaging bearing the genuine United States Mint logo, the year 2010, the mint mark of origin ("P" or "D") and the dollar value of its contents.

The United States Mint will accept orders for the rolls of 2010 Native American $1 Coins at its secure Web site, http://www.usmint.gov/catalog, or at the toll-free number, 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468). Domestic orders will be assessed a shipping and handling fee of $4.95.

The theme for the 2010 Native American $1 Coin is "Government-the Great Tree of Peace." The coin's reverse (tails side) design features an image of the Hiawatha Belt with five arrows bound together, along with the inscriptions UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1, HAUDENOSAUNEE and GREAT LAW OF PEACE. "Haudenosaunee" is also known as the Iroquois Confederacy. The obverse (heads side) design continues to bear the familiar image of Sacagawea, introduced in 2000. The design includes the inscriptions LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST. Like the Presidential $1 Coins, the Native American $1 Coins display the year, mint mark and inscription E PLURIBUS UNUM on the coin's distinctive edge.

The United States Mint is also offering rolls of 2010 Native American $1 Coins via its Direct Ship Program in quantities of 10 rolls a box priced at $250 per box. There is a limit of 20 boxes per household. For additional information, visit http://www.usmint.gov/catalog.

The Native American $1 Coin Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-82) authorizes the United States Mint to mint and issue $1 coins featuring designs celebrating the important contributions of Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the history and development of the United States.

America the Beautiful Design Reveal Planned for February

By Numismatic News

Collectors who are anxious to see the new America the Beautiful quarter designs will have to wait a little longer.

As the New Year opened, word from the Mint was the five 2010 reverse designs would likely be revealed at a special February ceremony.

No further details were available at press time.

The program will span 56 reverse designs issued at the rate of five per year.

The first five states to be recognized will be Arkansas, Hot Springs National Park; Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park; California, Yosemite National Park; Arizona, Grand Canyon National Park, and Oregon, Mount Hood National Forest.

Though the series is already familiarly known among collectors as the National Park quarter series, not every state has a National Park within its borders, so National Forests, Wildlife Refuges, Historic Sites, and the like are also included.

The final issue of the series will be 2021 when Alabama’s Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site is recognized.

Obverse of the quarter will feature the Washington design as it has been presented since its first appearance on the 1999 state quarters.