August 2022 Releases from the U.S. Mint
The U.S. Mint has a few releases next month, mostly medals but there are some new quarters that are about to enter circulation! Read on to find out what to look forward to next month!
August 15th: The Millard Fillmore Presidential Silver Medal
The Millard Fillmore Presidential Silver Medal will be released through the Mint’s Presidential Silver Medal enrollment program on August 15th at 12 noon according to the Mint’s website.
The Presidents Medals are a series that are released in the order of when each president served and the U.S. Mint has released four per year since 2018.
Born in the Finger Lakes area of New York, Millard Fillmore served as President of the United States from 1850-1853 and was the last to be a member of the Whig party. He succeeded to the presidency after the sudden death of President Zachary Taylor.
The medal is made up of one troy ounce of 99.9% fine silver, and measures 1.5 inches in diameter.
August 16th:
The American Women Quarters Rolls & Bags - Nina Otero-Warren and the
U.S. Air Force one ounce silver medal
The U.S. Air Force one ounce silver medal will be released on August 16th and available for purchase at 12 noon EST according to the U.S. Mint’s website. The U.S. Air Force medal is part of the Armed Forces Silver Medal Program that honors each branch of the Military. This coin is available through the Mint’s enrollment program at $65.00 each.
The medal is made up of one troy ounce of 99.9 percent fine silver and measures 1.598 in. in diameter. The obverse of the medal (pictured above) was designed by Mint Artistic Infusion Program Designer, Paul C. Balan, and sculpted by US Mint Medallic Artist, Phebe Hemphill, who also sculpted the reverse. The reverse of the medal was designed by Mint Artistic Infusion Program Designer, Jamie Franki.
The American Women Quarters program is set to release another design shortly here, on August 16th, the Nina Otero-Warren quarter will be released and will be available from the U.S. Mint for purchase in rolls and bags. According to the U.S. Mint’s website, the coins will be available for purchase at 12 noon EST.
Here’s an excerpt from our
previous blog on the American Women Quarters program about Nina Otero-Warren.
Adelina Otero-Warren was the first woman to run for U.S. Congress, and the first female superintendent of public schools in Santa Fe. She was a leader in New Mexico’s Suffrage movement and she used her political connections to lobby the state legislature to ratify the 19th Amendment.
According to the National Parks Service Adelina insisted that suffrage literature be published in both English and Spanish, in order to reach the widest audience.
She held the position of superintendent for 12 years, from 1917 to 1929.
August 18th: The American Liberty Silver Medal
The American Liberty Silver Medal is made up of one troy ounce of 99.9% silver, features a proof finish, and is struck only in Philadelphia.
The medal, which features the same design (minus coin inscriptions) as the 2021 American Liberty Gold coin shows a modern representation of Liberty, depicting the American ideals of determination, power, and passion for liberty.
The medals are limited to 75,000 and are priced at $75.00 each.
The obverse of the coin (pictured above) was designed by Beth Zaiken, and sculpted by Craig Campbell. The reverse was designed by Richard Masters, and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill.
August 30th: The American Innovation $1 Coin rolls & bags - Tennessee
The American Innovation $1 Coin program will release another design on August 30th, the coin representing Tennessee. The program seeks to illustrate innovation from each state, with Tennessee representing the TVA or Tennessee Valley Authority.
Here’s an excerpt from ourblog on the American Innovation Coins;
The Tennessee American Innovation $1 Coin recognizes the innovation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was created by Congress in 1933 to construct transmission lines to serve “farms and small villages that are not otherwise supplied with electricity at reasonable rates”.
Most houses in rural Tennessee at this time did not have electricity, in fact as much as nine out of ten rural houses were not hooked up to an electrical grid all the way into the late 1930s.
The TVA also built 16 hydro-electric dams between 1933 and 1944, and Tennessee very quickly became the nation's largest public utility supplier.
The coins will be available as rolls and bags at 12 noon EST according to the Mint’s website, and are also available through enrollment.
