Five new reverse designs will be offered by the US Mint each year during the period 2022-2025. George Washington previously appeared on the coin’s obverse, but this is a new design.
Abolition, government, the arts, science, and space are topics explored in American Women Quarters. The honorees will come from different ethnic, racial, and geographical backgrounds.
Within the first four months of the calendar year 2021, the American Women Quarters Program received more than 11,000 submissions for consideration as coin subjects.
From March to June 2021, the National Women’s History Museum accepted submissions on its website. Recommendations were added to a pool of potential quarter-dollar program honorees for 2022-2025, with five-quarter dollars released each year.
Additionally, museum officials and the Congressional Bipartisan Women’s Caucus might suggest separately.
Each of the chosen honorees’ images has the distinction of being featured on the reverses of the program’s circulating quarter dollars, along with an image of George Washington from American sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser as the obverse.
Passed legislation (Public Law 116-330) establishing the American Women Quarters Program enacted in 2020. As a result, high-grade and NGC Certified Women Quarters are for sale on this website. This collection will only be available for a limited time, and please bookmark this website to ensure you receive them all.
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Women’s Quarters of the United States.
The 2022 Quarters will feature the following names:
Dr. Sally Kristen Ride – a pioneer of American space travel, astronaut, educator
Maya Angelou – Performer, activist, and author
Wilma Pearl Mankiller – The first woman to serve as Cherokee principal chief
Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren – First woman in New Mexico to be elected to the senate and lead a New Mexico school district
Anna May Wong – the first Asian-American woman to break into Hollywood
Obverse Design
Laura Gardin Fraser sculpted and composed the original artwork found on the reverse of every American Women Quarter. Althea Gibson Quarter chose this design for Washington’s 200th birthday quarter, initially proposed for the 1932 quarter. In the early 1900s, she and other women sculptors were prolific. A woman’s face appeared on the first American half dollar in 1921, the Alabama Centennial Half Dollar. In 1999, the gold coin commemorating the death of George Washington utilized her design.
Process For Selecting Designs.
Smithsonian Institution and National Museum of American Women’s History selected the honorees with the women’s bipartisan caucus in Congress. In addition, Congress passed a bill directing the US Department of the Treasury to consult with the National Women’s History Museum, the American Women’s History Initiative of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Bipartisan Women’s Caucus to identify prominent American women be honored on quarters in the next four years.
The American Women Quarters™ Program coins will feature these trailblazing women beginning February 7, 2022. A website hosted by the National Women’s History Museum invited the public to submit recommendations.
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Step 1 – Hire Liaisons.
To begin the design process, the United States Mint will contact the appropriate officials in the Smithsonian Institution’s American Women’s History Initiative (SIWHI) and the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) to appoint one or more individuals to serve as the Mint’s liaisons.
Step 2 – Create A Pool Of Design Concepts.
The Mint will collaborate with our legislated consultants and representatives from other federal institutions, including the National Archives & Records Administration, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Gallery of Art. They will create a series of designs that recognize and honor the significant accomplishments and contributions of women of the United States.
In addition, the public and the Bipartisan Women’s Caucuses were solicited for recommendations to develop the pool of concepts. It should represent women’s accomplishments and contributions from a range of fields, including but not limited to civil rights, suffrage, government, abolitionist movements, arts, space, and science, and it should honor women from a diversity of ethnic and geographical backgrounds. Concepts are produced in title or narrative format. The Mint will work with legislative consultants and other subject matter experts to ensure that each concept pool is appropriate and accurate.
Step 3 – Approval Of The Concept And Formal Recommendation.
The basis of the pool of design concepts developed in Step Two, legal advisors, subject matter experts, and members of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) will work with the Mint to create formal concept recommendations. In addition, this program will acknowledge women, display women’s designs every quarter, group designs, and order them in exhibits will send new submissions to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Step 4 – Planning And Production.
Upon receiving approval from the Secretariat, the Mint will design original quarter designs that are aesthetic, historically accurate, appropriate, and coinable. To ensure historical accuracy and a fair representation of the candidate designs, it will consult with its legislative consultants and other subject matter experts as necessary.
Step 5 – Review Of Submitted Designs.
In addition to receiving the candidates’ designs, the United States Cultural Commission (USCC) will receive comments and recommendations from the participating consultants. The renditions of the candidates are modified based on all comments and suggestions.
Step 6 – Final Selection.
The Mint will present the final candidate designs to the Secretary for approval after receiving the final candidate designs and recommendations from all stakeholders.