Nevada America the Beautiful Quarter

The Nevada America the Beautiful Quarter will be released during 2013 as part of the series created to feature National Parks and Sites of the United States of America. This coin will represent the eighteenth release overall.

The site selected to be featured on the quarter is Great Basin National Park. Under the legislation which authorized the new quarter series, the complete register of sites had to be determined within 270 days of enactment. On September 10, 2009, the United States Mint released the register.

The Great Basin Quarter will be issued for circulation, allowing all Americans to experience or collect the new design. The coins will also be packaged for collectors in various products offered by the United States Mint. A five ounce silver bullion duplicate is also planned for production.

About Great Basin National Park

The Great Basin National Park in Nevada has been called many things, by many people, and not all of them have been positive. Barren, wasteland and desolate are just some of the words that explorers and historians have used to describe this area. However, sometimes you just have to look at little bit harder to see a place’s beauty, and Great Basin is one of those places.

Despite being shunned by some of the thinnest skinned adventure seekers, Great Basin has been recognized by scientists and archaeologists as one of the culturally diverse and interesting parks in the country. For this reason, it was officially protected by the government for the first time in January of 1922.

One of the most interesting facts about the Great Basin National Park is that it is one of the few places where you can really observe the night sky in all of its glory. There are many people that think they can go out into their backyards to look at the stars and constellations, but what they don’t know is that light pollution from buildings, cars and streetlights is preventing them from seeing anything but a small percentage of the heavenly bodies. When you journey to Great Basin, you will learn how dark the night sky can really be, and as a result, you just might get to see the Milky Way with your naked eyes. The Great Basin National Park is also home to some of the most interesting forest and cave habitats that are just waiting to be explored.