The United States Mint today released the design for the Olympic National Park quarter that will be released in 2011 as part of the America the Beautiful Quarters Program.

The back of the Olympic quarter design depicts a Roosevelt elk standing on a gravel river bar of the Hoh River with a view of Mount Olympus in the background. The inscriptions are Olympic, Washington, 2011 and E Pluribus Unum.

The coin’s reverse was designed by AIP master designer Susan Gamble and sculpted by United States Mint sculptor-engraver Michael Gaudioso.

Also to be released in 2011 will be designs honoring Gettysburg National Military Park (Pennsylvania), Glacier National Park (Montana), Vicksburg National Military Park (Mississippi) and Chickasaw National Recreation Area (Oklahoma).

Each coin in the America the Beautiful Quarters Program features a common heads side featuring the 1932 portrait of George Washington by John Flanagan.

The quarters program is a multi-year initiative during which the United States Mint will issue 56 circulating quarter-dollar coins with reverse designs emblematic of a national park or other national site in each state, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories – the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands.

The quarters are being released in the order in which the featured site was first established as a national park or site. The designs will rotate five times each year through 2020, with the final coin being released in 2021.

The quarters debuted earlier this year with the release of designs honoring the Hot Springs National Park (Arkansas), Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming), Yosemite National Park (California), Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona) and Mount Hood National Forest (Oregon).