US Mint Launches First Quarter Honouring American Women

The United States Mint has launched its American Women Quarters™ Program. In a four-year period from 2022 to 2025, the Mint will honour the works and accomplishments of 20 American women by placing their images on new 25 cent coins. The American Women Quarters Program is authorised by the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020.

The obverse of each of the coins in the series will feature a portrait of George Washington facing right, originally composed and sculpted by Laurer Gardin Fraser, the first woman to design a US coin. It was the recommended design for the 1932 quarter to mark Washington’s 200th birthday, but then-Treasury Secretary Mellon ultimately selected the left-facing John Flannigan design instead. The Mint used Fraser’s George Washington design prior to this on a 1999 gold commemorative coin marking the 200th anniversary of Washington’s death.