The Fort Moultrie / Sumter National Monument Silver Bullion Coin will be the last of five silver bullion coins released by the US Mint in 2016. Shown on the reverse of the silver bullion coin will be a design emblematic of Fort Moultrie / Sumter National Monument found in the state of South Carolina. At the time of this posting, a release date was not known for the coin.
Congress authorized this series of silver bullion coins with the America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act which became Public Law 110-456. As the name of the Act indicates, the law also authorized a series of quarter dollars. Those quarters actually serve as the basis for the designs found on these silver bullion coins.
In total, fifty-six different coins will be struck in both series with the reverses of those coins containing designs emblematic of fifty-six different sites of national interest from around the United States including the District of Columbia and the five US Territories – Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa. The coins of both series feature a release rate of five per year from the debut year of 2010 until the final strikes are issued in 2021.
Struck to resemble the quarters, the obverse of the silver bullion coins will also contain a portrait of George Washington. This portrait was originally completed by John Flanagan for the 1932 circulating quarter dollar and has been in use on the quarters in one form or another ever since. Around the portrait will be the inscriptions of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, LIBERTY, IN GOD WE TRUST and QUARTER DOLLAR.
The reverse of the coins will contain the design emblematic of Fort Moultrie / Fort Sumter National Monument). That design will include the inscriptions of FORT MOULTRIE, SOUTH CAROLINA, 2016 and E PLURIBUS UNUM.
Fort Moultrie / Sumter National Monument in South Carolina
Fort Moultrie / Fort Sumter National Monument is located in the state of South Carolina. Fort Moultrie is the older fort of the Fort Sumter complex and is remembered for different reasons from Sumter.
Fort Moultrie was built to protect the port of Charleston. It was called upon to do just that during the American Revolutionary War when British warships attacked. The soft palmetto logs of the fort were so springy that it is said cannonballs just bounced off of it leading the British forces to retreat.
