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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.)
Maya Angelou and Sally Ride Will Be Honored on Quarters
The coins are part of a new U.S. Mint program that will feature as many as 20 American women.
Coins celebrating the writer and poet Maya Angelou, left, and the astronaut Sally Ride will be issued next year as part of the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program.Credit.United States Mint
May 9, 2021
The writer and poet Maya Angelou and the astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, are the first women who will appear on a series of quarters to be issued by the U.S. Mint over the next four years.
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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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