The Voyageurs National Park quarter is part of the America the Beautiful series launched in 2010, which committed the Mint to producing five-ounce silver bullion strikes for each of the 56 parks and sites scheduled across the program's eleven-year run. Voyageurs, established as a national park in 1975 after decades of lobbying by Minnesota conservationists against persistent timber and mining interests, was assigned the 2018 Minnesota slot.
These five-ounce issues carry nominal face value of 25 cents — a legal fiction that creates an oddity in U.S. coinage law, as the silver content alone exceeds that denomination by several hundred times over.
The Voyageurs National Park quarter is part of the America the Beautiful series launched in 2010, which committed the Mint to producing five-ounce silver bullion strikes for each of the 56 parks and sites scheduled across the program's eleven-year run. Voyageurs, established as a national park in 1975 after decades of lobbying by Minnesota conservationists against persistent timber and mining interests, was assigned the 2018 Minnesota slot.
These five-ounce issues carry nominal face value of 25 cents — a legal fiction that creates an oddity in U.S. coinage law, as the silver content alone exceeds that denomination by several hundred times over.