SKU# OK26580879EB
2010-S 25C Silver Yellowstone National Park PCGS Graded & Certified PR69DCAM
(Proof 69 Deep Cameo - a near perfect grade!)
Specifications
Weight – 6.25 grams
Diameter – 24.3 mm
Finish – Proof
Edge – Reeded
Mint – San Francisco (S mint mark)
Composition – 90% Silver, 10% Copper
Please review the photos carefully. The coin in these photos is the coin you will receive.
Each year, as part of the America the Beautiful Quarters
Program, the United States Mint produces non-circulating proof strike coins for
each of the five designs released during that year. Most of these proof strikes are minted in the
same cupronickel clad copper used for circulating business strike coins. A smaller number, however, are minted in
silver, the same precious metal used for all pre-1965 Washington quarters. These silver proof coins are highly sought
after by collectors, investors, and the public at large.
The coin we are offering in this listing is a silver proof strike of the 2010 Yellowstone National Park quarter. This coin has been professionally graded and certified by PCGS, the preeminent third party authentication and certification service for high value coins and other collectibles worldwide. It has achieved the second highest possible grade, PR69DCAM, indicating a near perfect coin.
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About Yellowstone
National Park
The earliest report from European-American trappers and
‘mountain men’ describing geothermal activity in the Yellowstone region were
dismissed as ‘tall tales’. For decades,
people in the eastern United States ridiculed such reports as myths and poked
fun at the sources. Yellowstone National
Park sits atop an active, super-volcano.
Geological evidence indicates that the Yellowstone caldera has exploded
with cataclysmic results multiple times in the past. The most recent eruption is estimated to have
been 1,000 times stronger than the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. Volcanologists forecast that another such
explosion could occur at any time, devastating up to a third of North America. Such an eruption would cause massive climate
change around the globe, leading to the mass extinctions and massive human
suffering and death.
The first detailed expedition to the Yellowstone area was
the Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition of 1869, which consisted of three privately
funded explorers. The Folsom party followed the Yellowstone River to
Yellowstone Lake. The members of the Folsom party kept a journal and based on
the information it reported, a party of Montana residents organized the
Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition in 1870. It was headed by the
surveyor-general of Montana Henry Washburn, and included Nathaniel P. Langford
(who later became known as "National Park" Langford) and a U.S. Army
detachment commanded by Lt. Gustavus Doane.
The expedition spent about a month exploring the region, collecting
specimens, and naming sites of interest.
A Montana writer and lawyer named Cornelius Hedges, who
had been a member of the Washburn expedition, proposed that the region should
be set aside and protected as a National Park; he wrote a number of detailed
articles about his observations for the Helena Herald newspaper between 1870
and 1871. Hedges essentially restated comments made in October 1865 by acting
Montana Territorial Governor Thomas Francis Meagher, who had previously
commented that the region should be protected. Others made similar suggestions.
In an 1871 letter from Jay Cooke to Ferdinand Hayden, Cooke wrote that his
friend, Congressman William D. Kelley had also suggested "Congress pass a
bill reserving the Great Geyser Basin as a public park forever".
In 1871, eleven years after his failed first effort, F.V. Hayden was finally able to make another attempt to explore the region. With government sponsorship, Hayden returned to Yellowstone region with a second, larger expedition, the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871. He compiled a comprehensive report on Yellowstone, which included large-format photographs by William Henry Jackson, as well as paintings by Thomas Moran. His report helped to convince the U.S. Congress to withdraw this region from public auction. On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed The Act of Dedication law that created Yellowstone National Park.