An Update on the US Mint AWQ Program

The US Mint is currently shipping the next two coins in its American Women Quarters (AWQ) Program. The third circulating coin features Wilma Mankiller, the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation who sought to improve education, healthcare and government for the Nation. The fourth circulating coin features Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first woman superintendent of Santa Fe public schools.

As with all other quarters in this series, the obverse side of both depict a portrait of George Washington, originally composed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser to mark Washington’s 200th birthday.

The reverse of the Wilma Mankiller coin depicts her wrapped in a traditional shawl, ‘with a resolute gaze to the future’. The seven-pointed star of the Cherokee Nation features on her left-hand side, with the name of the Cherokee Nation written in the Cherokee syllabary underneath.