2011 United States Mint Set

2011-PD Mint Set

About the sets: The coins in the 2011-PD Mint Sets were Uncirculated pieces pulled from regular production runs, thus the quality of the individual coins varies widely from set to set and even within a set.

The 2011-PD Mint Set contained twenty-eight coins, including the following:

One example of each of the following from the Philadelphia and Denver Mints: Gettysburg National Military Park Quarter, Glacier National Park Quarter, Olympic National Park Quarter, Vicksburg National Military Park Quarter, and Chickasaw National Recreation Area Quarter (all Copper-Nickel Clad). The four Presidential Dollars are Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and James Garfield (Copper-Nickel Clad). The Native American Dollar reverse features a peace pipe exchange to commemorate the alliance between the Great Wampanoag Nation and the early settlers at Plymouth Bay in 1621. (Copper-Nickel Clad).

Mintage: 533,529 sets

About the sets: The 2011-PD Mint Set contains five new issues in the America the Beautiful™ Quarter program, as well as a one-year-only Native American Dollar design depicting the passing of the peace pipe between early Plymouth Bay settlers and the Great Wampanoag Nation in 1621.

Original packaging: The 2011-PD Mint Set consisted of two different sets in two blister-style folders. The blue folder contains coins from the Philadelphia Mint, the red folder contains coins from the Denver Mint. Each folder contains the Cents, Nickels, Dime, Half Dollar, and Dollar, alongside the following five 2011 Quarters: Gettysburg National Military Park, Glacier National Park, Olympic National Park, Vicksburg National Military Park, and Chickasaw National Recreation Area. Completing each folder are the four 2011 Presidential Dollars: Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Haynes, and James Garfield.

America in 2011

The quiz show Jeopardy airs the victory of IBM's artificial intelligence program Watson over two of the show's most successful contestants. Frank Buckles, America's last surviving World War I veteran and one of only three verified surviving veterans of the war worldwide, dies at the age of 110. Standard & Poor's downgrades its outlook on long-term sovereign debt of the United States to negative from stable for the first time in history. Occupy Wall Street: Thousands march on Wall Street in response to high unemployment, record executive bonuses, and extensive bailouts of the financial system.

The World in 2011

Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda and the most-wanted fugitive on the US list was killed during an American military operation in Pakistan. The last American troops are withdrawn from Iraq, ending the Iraq War. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il dies.