American Women quarters

The American Women quarters program was a series of circulating commemorative quarters released by the United States Mint. Minted from 2022 through 2025, they featured designs of notable women in U.S. history, commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Five designs were issued each year for 20 total designs, with one woman honored on the reverse of each coin, selected for "contributions to the United States in a wide spectrum of accomplishments and fields, including but not limited to suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and arts." Most of the women featured were from ethnic minority groups. The obverse depicts George Washington, using a design by Laura Gardin Fraser originally intended for the first Washington quarter in 1932. The program was authorized by the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, sponsored by Representatives Barbara Lee and Anthony Gonzalez. The original proposal was for 56 quarters, honoring one woman from each state and territory, but with a set of circulating coins intended to be released in 2026 for the United States Semiquincentennial, it was amended to be shorter. It replaced an alternative proposal of quarters featuring animals or endangered species. It succeeded the America the Beautiful quarters and Washington Crossing the Delaware quarter, and will be followed in 2027–2030 with a series depicting youth sports. Some coin collectors were critical of the "seemingly unending" proposal to continue to issue five new quarter designs every year for a third decade. Many numismatists are more interested in redesigns of other denominations and less frequent releases.

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