Silver Five Ounces 2013 Fort McHenry, Coin from United States - detailed information

This coin is part of the America the Beautiful silver bullion coins (abbreviated ATB) - a series of 56 silver bullion coins with a face value of a quarter dollar. The coins in the series contain 5oz (five troy ounces) of silver, making them the largest silver bullion coins issued to date by the United States Mint. The design of the coins duplicates exactly - though much enlarged - each of the America the Beautiful quarters. They were issued from 2010 to 2021.

All coins in the series feature a common obverse depicting George Washington in a restored version of the portrait created by John Flanagan for the 1932 Washington quarter, while the reverses feature five individual designs for each year of the program (one in 2021), each depicting a national park or national site - one from each state, federal district, and territory.

The Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine quarter design is the fourth to be released in 2013 and the 19th overall in the America the Beautiful Quarters Program; it was released on 26 August 2013 and represents the state of Maryland.

Fort McHenry - the birthplace of the United States national anthem - was named for James McHenry, the nation’s second Secretary of War. Following the burning of the nation’s capitol and other federal buildings in August 1814, British forces attacked Baltimore. Francis Scott Key, a poet-lawyer, witnessed the September 13-14 bombardment of Fort McHenry while under British guard on an American truce ship in the Patapsco River. Seeing his country’s flag still flying over the fort the next morning, he was moved to pen “The Star-Spangled Banner". Fort McHenry was first established as a national site on March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1109).