ATLANTA (CNN) Following coins that put the spotlight on Duke Ellington, the Tuskegee Airmen and Samoan fruit bats, a new run of quarters will call attention to pioneering American women.
It s part of the US Mint s American Women Quarters Program, which will stamp circulating quarters with the faces of women who have made significant contributions to the U.S. (George Washington s face will remain on the quarter s front, albeit with a new design.)
The first two honorees have already been chosen: esteemed poet Maya Angelou and gender-barrier-breaking astronaut Sally Ride.
The rest of the lineup will be decided by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen with input from the American public.
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Published 10th May 2021
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The US Mint wants you to help choose the pioneering women that will appear on its new quarters
Written by Scottie Andrew, CNN
Following coins that put the spotlight on Duke Ellington, the Tuskegee Airmen and Samoan fruit bats, a new run of quarters will call attention to pioneering American women.
It s part of the US Mint s American Women Quarters Program, which will stamp circulating quarters with the faces of women who have made significant contributions to the US. (George Washington s face will remain on the quarter s front, albeit with a new design.)
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The US Mint wants you to help choose the pioneering women that will appear on its new quarters
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(CNN) Following coins that put the spotlight on Duke Ellington, the Tuskegee Airmen and Samoan fruit bats, a new run of quarters will call attention to pioneering American women.
It’s part of the US Mint’s “American Women Quarters Program,” which will stamp circulating quarters with the faces of women who have made “significant contributions to the US.” (George Washington’s face will remain on the quarter’s front, albeit with a new design.)
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Expect a change in your pocket change next year.
The United States Mint last month announced that poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou and NASA astronaut Sally Ride will be the first two women featured on the quarter as part of the American Women Quarters program.
Twenty women will be featured on quarters through 2025, with up to five women honored per year as a result of the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020.
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