US Mint to honor astronaut, former UCSD professor Sally Ride on new quarter
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) â The United States Mint will honor astronaut and former UC San Diego professor Dr. Sally Ride as part of its effort to highlight prominent women on quarters.
Ride and famed writer Maya Angelou will be the first two women to grace the quarter as part of the Mint s American Women Quarters Program, which will issue five different reverse designs, on the tails side, annually that feature the accomplishments and prominent women from 2022 to 2025.
The Sally Ride quarter will begin circulating next year. The quarters will continue to feature George Washington on the heads side, though it will be designed in a way that sets it apart from the current image.
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The United States Mint plans to issue a quarter-dollar coin that commemorates the accomplishments and contributions of the late Sally Ride, who became the first American woman to travel in space and later served on the UC San Diego faculty.
Ride and the late writer Maya Angelou will appear on separate coins as part of the new American Women Quarters Program, which is run by the Mint, the sole maker of legal-tender coinage in the US.
The Mint says it will annually issue up to five different reverse-design coins per year beginning in 2022. The honor is limited to people who are no longer alive.
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United States Mint Announces First Two Honorees in American Women Quarters Program
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Sally Ride and Maya Angelou WASHINGTON (PRWEB) April 12, 2021 The United States Mint (Mint) is pleased to announce the names of the first two women to be honored on coins issued under the American Women Quarters Program. Famed writer Maya Angelou and trailblazing astronaut Dr. Sally Ride will be the first distinguished American women celebrated on the reverse of the program’s circulating quarters.
As authorized by Public Law 116-330 the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 the Mint will issue circulating and numismatic quarter-dollar coins with reverse (tails) designs emblematic of the accomplishments and contributions of a prominent American woman beginning in January 2022. Contributions may come from a wide spectrum of fields including, but not limited to, suffrage, civil rights, abolition, governm