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The 2010 P Hot Springs National Park Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin is the first coin released (4/28//2011) in the AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL FIVE OUNCE SILVER UNCIRCULATED COIN SERIES.
Hot Springs National Park, destination of the Dunbar-Hunter Expedition sent by President Thomas Jefferson in 1804, features prehistoric American Indian quarries. A bustling town grew up around the hot springs to provide health services. Hot Springs was first established as a national site on April 20, 1832 (4 Stat. 505), to conserve the water from the 47 springs that emerge from Hot Springs Mountain and to ensure that water was made available for drinking and therapy.
The reverve of the 2010 P Hot Springs National Park Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin depicts the facade of the Hot Springs National Park headquarters building with a thermal fountain in the foreground. The headquarters was built in the Spanish colonial revival style and completed in 1936. The National Park Service emblem is featured to the right of the door. Inscriptions are HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, 2010 and E PLURIBUS UNUM. The reverse was designed by Don Everhart, United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver, and sculpted by Joseph Menna, United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver.
The 2010 P Hot Springs National Park Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin had a mintage of 27,000 coins.
This coin is graded by NGC as Early Releases SP 69.